[Benny] Hinn insists “hundred of verified healings and thousands of conversions have occurred,” it is clear that this is a lie.
Though he regularly boasts about “people rising from wheelchairs and leaving crutches. . .blind eyes and deaf ears [that] have been opened and verified, evidence to support those claims simply does not exist.”
Mike Thomas investigated Hinn’s miracle crusades. He wrote:
“Despite all the thousands of miracles claimed by Hinn, the church seems hard pressed to come up with any that would convince a serious skeptic. If God cures through Hinn, he does not cure ailments such as permanent paralysis, brain damage, retardation, physical deformities, missing eyes or other obvious ailments.” [Mike Thomas, “The Power and the Glory,” pg. 12]
Though he has held hundreds of crusades over the years. Hinn’s supposed healings still lack verification. When Hinn provided Christian Research Institute with his three best-documented cases, the results were utterly unimpressive. “All three cases are poorly documented and confused,” wrote Hank Hanegraaff of CRI. “If evidence like this is the best Hinn can muster after years of healing —-then there is no credible evidence that he has been involved in a bona fide healing.” [Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity in Crisis (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1993, pg. 341)]
While the list of fantastic claims and incredible healing stories continues to grow at a frantic pace, any real evidence of genuine miracles is conspicuously absent. A 2001 HBO documentary entitled A Question of Miracles followed the lives of seven people for a year, after they had supposedly been healed at a Benny Hinn crusade. At the end of the time period, Anthony Thomas, the film’s director, concluded that no one had actually been healed.
In an interview with the New York Times, Thomas gave this raw assessment: “If I had seen miracles [at Hinn’s crusades], I would have been happy to trumpet it . . . .but in retrospect, I think they do more damage to Christianity than most committed atheist.”
—reprinted from Strange Fire: The Danger of Offending the Holy Spirit with Counterfeit Worship, Thomas Nelson Books, 2013, pg. 170-171.
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