Benny Hinn Controversy in Fiji

[Chrystalwuzhere]

Controversy in Fiji over Benny Hinn miracle show

Posted at 21:29 on 23 January, 2006 UTC

Fierce controversy has broken out in Fiji over what has been described as three days of a miracle crusade by the US pastor Benny Hinn.

More than a hundred thousand people are reported to have attended the crusade on Friday, Saturday and Sunday including the prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, his wife and members of his cabinet.

There are claims that during the crusade, Mr Hinn made a man on crutches walk again, the blind see, and the deaf hear.

He’s said to have treated a 13-year old girl who said she had AIDS and cured another woman of cancer.

But critics say the shows were stage managed and Mr Hinn’s minders only brought carefully selected people to be cured by him.

The Fiji Sun reports that two busloads of people from the Fiji Disabled People’s Association who went to seek cures from Benny Hinn were turned away.

Read article - Click here (http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=21755).

[Chrystalwuzhere]

FIJI: Prime Minister Defends Benny Hinn Crusade
Wednesday: January 25, 2006

Radio New Zealand International Online reports that Fiji’s prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, has defended last weekend’s so called "miracle crusade" by the American preacher, Benny Hinn.

Mr Qarase, his wife and members of this cabinet attended all three days of the crusade which has been criticised by individuals and groups with disabilities who say Mr Hinn only raised false hopes of healing.

But Mr Qarase has told the Fiji Sun newspaper that the message of salvation was what mattered and not the healing which was only a small part of it. (Then why does Hinn advertise it as a Healing crusade? And why does he market himself as a faith healer? I'm willing to guess that if it was just a salvation crusade, the audience would be bare. The reason people come to these crusades is because they are sick, disabled, dying, and broke, and they're desperate enough to go to Hinn because they want an answer, a healing. Hinn takes advantage of this desperation in others; in fact, his ministry depends on it!)

Mr Qarase says thousands of people were healed in the three days of the crusade through Mr Hinn’s message. (I'm betting they can't produce one by which they can prove this claim.)

A member of the Fiji Disabled People’s Association who is confined to a wheel chair, Sajendra Sharma, has been quoted as saying that if Mr Hinn claimed to be a healer, their vocational centre for trainees would not be needed after they were healed by him.

In an editorial today, the Sun says "Mr Hinn’s advertising was very specific that the crusades were about healing, but too many of those who believed in the message that they would be healed went away angry, bitter and depressed." (There ya go! Busted!!! Sadly, some go away believing they weren't healed because it was their own fault...not enough faith. Some get so discouraged, they turn away from God.)

The newspaper says "it is clear that there was a very definite policy that those with obvious and serious disabilities would not qualify for any miracles."

Read article - click here (http://www.pacificislands.cc/pina/pinadefault2.php?urlpinaid=19807).

[InTheWind]

That guy never fails to make me wonder how so many people can be so decieved.

[CoreIssue]

Isn't it amazing how all these multitudes of healing are always where they are beyond testing?

And turning away those that cannot be denied as having problems says it all.