METAMORPHOSE
All of us have heard of Benny Hinn and some of us would have watched his television programmes or read his books. This, here, is an analysis of his first major book.
The texts printed in italics are quotes from the book "Good Morning, Holy Spirit", with the page number following, within brackets. The issues dealt with are not necessarily in the chronological order in which they appear in the book.
The indented texts are comments on the texts quoted from Benny Hinn's book,comparing it with Scripture and with the accepted beliefs of the Christian faith.You will also observe that Benny Hinn contradicts himself within the book.
Numerous other discrepancies and irregularities have been ignored in this paper.
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"Good Morning, Holy Spirit"
An analysis of some of the contents of the book in the light of Holy Scripture
1. The form and features of God
Yes, God the Father has a form but no man knows what it looks like. (Phil 2:6). (72)
The Greek word "morphe", translated as "form", does not mean form in the sense of shape but rather of essence, state of being, the objective reality that can be externalised. He who had been from eternity, "en morphe Theou", in the form of God, took at His incarnation "morphen doulou", the form of a servant... (which is an inner attitude) by taking the shape ("schema") of man. The Greek word "schema" means likeness or appearance, and is used in "being found in human form" ('schema', v 8). The foregoing explanation is culled from relevant notes given in Zodhiates' Hebrew-Greek Study Bible.
The translation in The Jerusalem Bible is "His state was divine, yet he did not cling to his equality with God..." (v 6). The relevant note states, "Lit. 'Who subsisting in the form of God' : here 'form' means all the attributes that express and reveal the essential 'nature' of God: Christ, being God, had all the divine prerogatives by right."
Morphe is translated in the NIV as "in very nature". We need to understand that "form" in the sense of shape is necessarily limited by the dimension of space, which is a creation of the eternal God. It is only God incarnate who chose to be limited by His own creation.
Benny Hinn presents the word "form" (in v 6) as having the meaning of shape, appearance etc.
What does God look like? There's not one place in the Word of God where the Father is described in detail. (72)
Benny Hinn contradicts himself ten pages later, as we read, "The prophets describe the features of God in great detail." (82)
The incorrect interpret-ation of the word "form" is then developed to tell us that the idiomatic expres-sions in Scripture pertain literally to features and limbs and organs of God - hands, fingers, lips, eyes, heart etc, as we see below.
The prophets describe the features of God in great detail. Isaiah says, "His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue like a devouring fire. His breath is like an overflowing stream" (Isaiah 30:27-28). And God revealed the fact that He can see. "They did evil before my eyes" (Isaiah 66:4). To my amazement, I found that God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face... He even talked to Moses about His "back..." If God is nothing more than a spirit, how was it possible that Adam and Eve heard his footsteps? God also has a heart. "The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in his heart" (Gen 6:6). (82)
