Benny Hinn causes death from his antics on stage

In September 1986, Mrs. Ella Peppard, aged 85, died as a result of someone falling on top of her who had been ’slain in the spirit’ by Benny Hinn at one of his healing and miracle crusades. As a result of the person toppling on top of her, she fractured her hip and died in hospital 15 days later.

Hinn’s ushers quickly pulled Ella off the stage and sat her in a pew where she cried out in pain for about 20 minutes. The woman’s family alleged the ushers refused to call an ambulance because an ambulance would not look good at a miracle service. The attorney representing the deceased Ella’s family, Carl Hughes, said videotapes of the incident disclosed that Hinn’s ministry failed to quickly summon an ambulance, despite repeated requests to do so, and the woman howling in pain before them. 

The obvious question has to be asked here – why didn’t Benny Hinn’s staff ask Benny Hinn to pray to God to heal her? After all, he was right there at the time, just yards away! Perhaps, it is because his staff  know he can’t really heal and is only a charlatan, because they see the real Benny, the man behind the mask, with all his false testimony, the lies, the gross exagerations, the false prophecies, and the swanking it up in US$10,000 a night hotel rooms and goodness knows what else? Surely, if healing and miracles really were happening before them, that’s the first thing anyone  would do.

Don’t misunderstand me, I have nothing whatsoever against medical intervention BUT there is no reason why both remedies – human and spiritual – could not have been applied while the ambulance/medics were awaited that night. Does the ‘ministry’ really lack the integrity (not to mention love and basic human decency) to call out professional medical help when a human being is suffering terribly because of a terrible accident happening during a show – because it will make them look  bad? Is it because they really are, all about money making?

And of course, the other obvious question is, if  it really were the Holy Spirit operating on stage through Benny Hinn when the person fell on the victim that died as a consequence of the fall, the word of God, the Holy Spirit through whom all things were created – well, He’s rather careless if so and rather slapdash! Don’t you think He’d be a bit more careful and make the person topple over properly and safely, if He were really doing such a marvellous work? It is the enemy  that comes to steal, to rob, to kill, to destroy….not God. And being slain in the spirit is not scriptural anyway. None of Jesus’s flock were ever slain – they were just healed, or raised from the dead – far from falling to the ground backwards (classic hypnotic induction), they jumped up to their feet and shouted their praise or fell forwards as an act of will in praise and worship. Do you know why slain in the spirit exists in the modern day chuch? – because it is quackery, very easy to induce by either pushing (we’ve all  seen ministers pushing!), mispaced faith, high expectation (remove the catchers from the ministry line and people do not tend to fall) and mesmerism/hypnotism). Don’t believe me? Read the next few posts on this subject!

{Article one here http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/modern-day-signs-and-wonders-hypnotism-and-trancework/ 

Article two here  http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/watchman-nee-on-holy-laughter/ 

Article three here http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/derren-brown-instant-conversion-and-slain-in-the-spirit/ }

Anyway, the woman’s family sued Hinn, pastor of the Orlando Christian Center, for US$5 million. Carl Hughes of Oklahoma City, attorney for the victim’s family, said Benny Hinn’s ministry recently awarded the family a large but undisclosed cash settlement a day before the trial was to begin.

In another incident, Evelyn Kuykendall of Marshville, North Carolina, won a $300,000 jury verdict from faith healers Charles and Frances Hunter after she broke her back when “catchers” were not able to catch her when she was (supposedly) slain in the Spirit.

See also http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/benny-hinn-video-watch-this-if-you-have-not-already/ and  http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/roll-up-for-benny-hinns-miracle-crusade/