Benny Hinn heals fellow parishioner's father... sort of

[The Laughing Man]

A while ago, my brother was visiting our church and got into a discussion about Benny Hinn with one of our members who believes in Hinn's "power." The member claims that his father had cancer and that Hinn supposedly healed him, because after the healing, his father went to the hospital and they found that he didn't have cancer, but did have a bad infection. Benny Hinn "healed" his father of cancer by giving him an infection instead!!!

[nomad]

while i'm not so sure about benny hinn, i wouldn't be so quick to judge such an action by itself.

a pastor i respect greatly once told me a story about a time he was asked to pray for someone with kidney stones. they were painful, but not real bad yet... they had an appointment to disintegrate them with ultrasound about a week later. but still wanted to let God heal them.

when he went to pray, he felt God leading him to pray, not that the stones would dissipate, but that they would harden and dry up! really strange, and i'm sure he got weird looks from the person as well. sure enough, they did harden and dried up, and this meant that instead of using the ultrasound non-invasive technique, they had to actually open them up and do surgery. so far, sounds like a net loss.

but, after the surgery, the doctors told them how lucky they were... the person had an as-yet-undiagnosed blood disease that was nearly impossible to treat, and you can't do surgery on blood. but, when the stones hardened, all the infection got sucked into the stones, and they were totally clean of it afterwards.

god certainly works in mysterious ways sometimes, but he always knows what he is doing.