Benny Hinn Responds to Mike Winger’s 4-Hour Exposé: ‘Forgive Me…I’ve Made Mistakes’
Benny Hinn has responded to a recent 4-hour exposé done on him by Mike Winger, asking people to “forgive him” for his errors while still engaging in revisionist history, minimization of his error, and outright lies.
Still reeling from Winder’s cinematic cinderblock to the head, arch-heretic Benny Hinn reached out to Stephen Strang, founder and CEO of Charisma News, the media conglomerate that has been historically very friendly to him, to do damage control and “throw his hat into the ring and try to balance the scales when it comes to the legacy he will leave behind.”
Strang was a willing participant in his efforts to show himself as rehabilitated and reformed, lobbing a bunch of softball questions you’d swear were submitted by Hinn himself. (Transcript below) Teeing up at the plate, Hinn paints a picture of himself as a faithful believer who loves Jesus and yet has made a few errors in fifty years of ministry, mostly in his youth by putting his trust in the wrong people, but that’s all done away with now.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Hinn says his major regrets were how he preached the prosperity gospel until 2019 and that he allowed other people to false prophecy on his platform. He also made false prophecies over the years, mostly in his youth, but insisted no one’s perfect.
In reality, just late last year, Hinn was engaging in outrageous money manipulations, explicitly claiming direct revelation from God and telling folks that God wants some people to give him $1000 or even $10,000 and that giving him only $10 is an “insult” to God.
Or how about in 2022, when he offered invitations to his birthday party for $5000 a person and a dozen crusades since 2019 where he was up to his old tricks? Nothing has changed. And lastly, Hinn has made tens of millions of dollars through his abusive tactics, becoming one of the wealthiest preachers in the world. Yet, there has never been a mention of any Matthean tax-collectoreque restitution, particularly giving back in measures what he stole from the poorest of the poor during his African crusades.
As for the prophecies portion and failed teaching, Hinn has never offered a major public apology, naming his specific errors and listing them somewhere public as a reference. Instead, he makes rare veiled references without addressing particular theologies or false teachings, which helps no one, least of all the millions of people holding wretched beliefs based on his teaching.
Also these errors are not in his past but very recent present. Hinn released a ‘major prophecy’ two weeks before Hama attacked Israel, where he claimed God told that Israel would soon make peace with Saudi Arabia and then Palestine. This is not a mere “mistake” but rather a demonstrative of a man who is a false prophet.
When asked by Strang if he has any regrets, Hinn offers:
Absolutely I’m a human being, I’ve made mistakes. I remember Oral (Roberts) telling me he made mistakes by the by the truck loads, we all make mistakes.
The two things I regret most in ministry, I was not too wise a number of times with prophecy. Number one: I had guests come to the crusades that I think brought harm to not only people’s lives, but also to my reputation. Because their prophecies were not really prophecy, they went outside the borders of redemption, because anything that’s outside redemption is not prophecy.
We know, of course that prophecy is for edification, exhortation and comfort, but it must be within redemption. And when people go beyond that we should not allow that, and I sadly I allowed it, and then I stopped, but that was years ago when I stopped.
And then there were times when I thought God had showed me something that he wasn’t showing me and I spoke it out. But in 1 Corinthians 13 we see very clearly that we all prophesy in part. That means we don’t see the full picture and sadly, and I wish I can go back and fix it, but sadly, there were some prophecies I gave that were not accurate or from the Lord, but who’s perfect? And for that, of course, I asked people to forgive me. I’m just human and made mistakes like that and I’ll probably make them again I suppose down the road because I’m not perfect…But you know, it’s sad when people focus on the times you missed it, but that’s just the way it is. Yet there were times when I did not miss it.
And then the other one is prosperity, and that’s been a very difficult one for me. When I started in ministry, it was simple, and then the ministry grew. I was invited to go to what they call praise-a-thons and I think that’s when my troubles began. I don’t blame anyone, but sadly you get kind of in a place it becomes difficult, you don’t know what to do and how to get out of it, so I came to the conclusion in 2019 that I did not want to be a part of the gimmickry of it, and I still stand by that, but sadly I let pressure get to me.
Because of that pressure, I said things and did things I should not have done and for that really I am sorry, and I ask the dear people watching us to really forgive me for that, and I’m striving with all my heart to to be as biblical as possible with that. And frankly you know I’m kind of at the end of my road anyways, I don’t see myself needing to do a whole lot of that down the road.
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Hinn has admitted that the power he manifests at his signs-and-wonder circuses often frightens him. Like his mentor Katherine Kuhlmann (and Kenneth Hagan, Howard Rodney Brown, and others), Hinn attributes an unclean Kundalini spirit to the Holy Spirit, something it obviously is not. Where’s an apology for that?
The truth is that Hinn has been using God’s name in vain for decades to make obscene amounts of money. Now that he’s getting old, Hinn appears to finally be worrying about Judgement. It’s about time.
Hinn is not going to change, nor truly repent.
Strang has no credibility. None. He is one of many enablers of deceit and destruction.
He had a perfect chance to Love Hinn, and to help millions of people, and he failed spectacularly.
so the new word is mistakes? Stalin made mistakes. Hitler made mistakes. Charles Manson made mistakes.