ìAnd that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to
death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the
LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee
out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to
walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.î
Deuteronomy 13:5 (emphasis mine)
Adding to the blasphemies and heresies propagated by Benny Hinn is his
compromise with Rome. Already noted in this chapter is his completely Catholic
view on the Eucharist. On the television show Larry King Live, he gave total
credence to the demonic apparitions at Lourdes and Fatima.
ìLook, God has given us, Larry, many sources of healing.
Look at Lourdes. People have been healed going to Lourdes
and Fatima. There was a pool, even in the Bible, the pool of
Bethesda, where the angels stirred the water ó people were
also healed. So God has given us many avenues of healing.
He wants us to be healed.î 34In keeping with the Lourdes theme, Benny Hinn solicited millions of dollars for
a healing center he was going to build in Las Colinas, Texas. He told Dateline
that the healing center would bring a touch of Lourdes to the area. 35
Revealing his Catholic and ecumenical roots to an even greater degree, he
extols Pope John Paul II.
ìFor example, on the This Is Your Day television program,
April 20, 2000, Hinn calls Catholics ëbelievers,í calls the
Pope a ëprophetic Pope,í and notes him as ëSpirit filled.íî 36In 1989, Benny Hinn and other prominent ecumenists participated in a move to
crown Pope John Paul II with the Prince of Peace award, instigated by Harold
Bredesen and his Prince of Peace Foundation.
ìHonoring the Pope's efforts for world peace, a group of
charismatic leaders has proposed giving him the ëPrince of
Peace Prize.í Directing this effort is Harald Bredesen, one of
the original founding members of the board of the ë700 Clubí
and a long-time confidant and advisor to Pat Robertson.î 37