LIBERTY UNIVERSITY JOINS HANDS WITH BENNY HINN
(Friday Church News Notes, April 11, 2014, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – Benny Hinn recently announced that he is partnering with Liberty University to “form a powerful, worldwide ministry connection that will touch the world” (bennyhinn.org). The phony-baloney, Pentecostal Word-Faith heretic says, “Through this powerful alliance between Liberty University Institute of Biblical Studies and our ministry you can enroll in a Bible survey study course, earn a diploma from Liberty University, and receive your ministerial credentials, licensing, and ordination through World Healing Fellowship.” Appearing with Hinn to announce the program were Dan Reber, Director of Liberty University Institute of Biblical Studies, and Ronald Godwin, Liberty University Provost. Hinn has taught that Adam could fly like a bird and swim underwater like a fish. He claims that his “anointing” comes from visits to the graves of Kathryn Kuhlman and Aimee Semple McPherson. He alleges to have had multiple visions of Jesus, beginning at age 11, plus an eight-hour private conversation with the Holy Spirit. In a 1990 television appearance, Hinn said of his detractors, “Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun, I’ll blow your head off!” Hinn tosses the “anointing of the Holy Spirit” like a baseball and “slays people in the spirit” by blowing on them. Hinn claims that physical healing is guaranteed and we must never say, “If it be thy will, Lord.” Though Hinn claims that thousands of people have been healed in his “miracle services,” repeated attempts by reputable researchers have failed to turn up genuine cases. (For documentation of these things see The Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements, available from www.wayoflife.org.) The yoke with Benny Hinn is the latest example of the slippery slide that Liberty University has been on since the late 1980s when Jerry Falwell renounced biblical separatism and began flirting with contemporary music, ecumenism, and charismaticism. We see the great change in thinking that can occur in just one generation.
Liberty University Promotes “Faith Healer” Benny Hinn:
Published on Apr 5, 2014
Benny Hinn announces a new relationship with Liberty University. He is joined by Director of Liberty University Institute of Biblical Studies and Dr. Ronald Godwin, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost for Liberty University. A Bible study kit produced by Liberty which includes a book, study guide, quizzes, and 10 hour instructional DVD is offered for fifteen hundred dollars. License and ordination by Hinn’s World Healing Fellowship is also offered as part of the arrangement.
Shortly after the announcement, Liberty officially denied a partnership.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBRfREMJ2ko
Benny Hinn “Powerful Anointing” in Miami:
Benny Hinn – Fire Falling in Louisville:
Benny Hinn – Mighty Miracles to Build Your Faith, Part 1:
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT BENNY HINN, ETC.:
JACK HAYFORD’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE MESSIANIC/HEBRAIC ROOTS MOVEMENT:
FROM CATHOLIC TO NEW AGE MEDIUMS AND PSYCHICS TO KENNETH HAGIN, WORD OF FAITH HERETIC TO THE MESSIANIC YESHUA:
TONY MIANO STREET PREACHER~HIS TESTIMONY~ESCORTED OUT OF A HYPER-CHARISMATIC CHURCH FOR QUOTING FROM SCRIPTURE:
JUSTIN PETERS: WORD OF FAITH HERESY~A CALL FOR DISCERNMENT:
PINDER OF FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH WILMINGTON, DE INVITES GNOSTIC “MASTER MARKETING STRATEGIST” SCOTT N. SMITH FOR PALM SUNDAY:
https://ratherexposethem.org/2014/03/pinder-of-faith-baptist-church.html
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UPDATE: APRIL 18, 2014:
Vol 15, Issue 16 – April 18, 2014
FOLLOW UP ON LIBERTY UNIVERSITY AND BENNY HINN (Friday Church News Notes, April 18, 2014, www.wayoflife.orgfbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – In last week’s Friday Church News Notes we reported on a video clip posted at Benny Hinn’s web site featuring Hinn and two men identified with Liberty University: Dan Reber, Director of Liberty University Institute of Biblical Studies, and Ronald Godwin, Liberty University Provost. The three men announced an alliance between Liberty University Institute of Biblical Studies and Hinn’s World Healing Fellowship. I wrote a report about the alliance, queued it up to go out last week, and then left on a two-week preaching trip to the States. The day we published the report, Liberty University’s President, Jerry Falwell, Jr., posted a statement denying that the school is partnering with Hinn. The statement says that Dr. Godwin made a mistake in appearing with Hinn and that though Liberty “transferred the operations of Liberty Home Bible Institute … to Mr. Dan Reber in 2011,” he wasn’t authorized to form an alliance with Hinn. I find this move by Liberty curious for a number of reasons. Reber and Godwin are long-time employees of Liberty, going back to the time of Liberty’s founder, Jerry Falwell, Sr., and they learned their compromise directly from him. Is Jerry Falwell, Jr., now renouncing what his father did when he tried to rescue Jim Baker’s PTL Club? Or what Falwell, Sr., did in 2004 when he praised Pat Robertson and Rod Parsley as “courageous and brilliant evangelical mega-leaders” (fundraiser mailer for the Faith and Values Coalition, “a 21st Century Moral Majority,” Nov. 16, 2004). These men are as heretical as Benny Hinn. In fact, does this mean that Falwell, Jr., is renouncing Falwell, Sr.’s close association with Roman Catholics and Mormons and with cult leader Sun Myung Moon who helped rescue Liberty University from bankruptcy in the early 1990s? (“The GOP’s Own Asian Connection,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 16, 1997, articles.latimes.com/1997/nov/16/opinion/op-54375). Why draw the line with Benny Hinn, Liberty? (For further documentation of Liberty’s compromise see “Jerry Falwell: Should We Warn or Praise” at the Way of Life web site.)
