[CS-FSLUG] Do you believe in miracles?
Frank Bax
fbax at sympatico.ca
Fri Mar 4 09:11:31 CST 2005
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/main_miracles.html
I had a couple of problems with this story - here's one item for each side.
The website says "Benny Hinn insists that every penny is spent on God's
work.", and the show challenged that statement. The TV show I watched
Wednesday evening, Benny said something to the effect that he personally
doesn't get any of the money from TV, crusades. etc. If ministry revenues
are indeed $100's of millions of dollars per year, then it is not unlikely
the ministry has enough revenue generating investments whose revenues
exceed Hinn's salary, making Benny's statement misleading, but not a lie as
the story reports.
The TV show reported that Hinn paid thousands per night for hotels in Milan
and London. Hinn claims hotels often give him rooms for free or
discounted. The website includes copy of London hotel bill, and no "room
charges" are listed. Those hotels near Buckingham Palace certainly are
expensive. I stayed in one for a weekend a couple of years ago. I paid
the super-discount employee rate, but buffet breakfast was about $100.
The TV show spent some time on miraculous healings, but the sebsite doesn't
deal with that topic, except in follow-up section at the bottom.
Frank
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