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Fatherhood Quote by Benny Hinn

"What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth"

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Benny Hinn is doing something deceptively strategic here: answering a question that orthodox theology traditionally treats with caution by slipping it into the warm, camera-ready certainty of Jesus. The line sounds pastoral, even humble ("I've never seen Him"), but it quietly reroutes a doctrinal landmine into an image the audience already trusts. God the Father is theologically described as invisible and beyond depiction; Jesus, by contrast, is narratable, paintable, castable. By saying the Father "looks like Jesus looked on earth", Hinn collapses the distance between the transcendent and the familiar.

The intent is reassurance. If your spiritual life is built on intimacy with God, an unknowable Father can feel like a locked door. Hinn hands listeners a key: picture Jesus, and you can picture the Father. It's a shortcut to closeness, but also to authority. In charismatic and televangelist settings, vivid mental imagery isn't decoration; it's infrastructure. The more concrete the divine feels, the more immediate prayer, healing, and certainty become.

The subtext is also christocentric branding. Jesus is the accessible face of God in Christian tradition; Hinn amplifies that into a near-photographic claim. It's not "the Father is like Jesus in character" but "looks like", a move from metaphor to quasi-description. That shift plays well in a media environment where testimony and visualization carry persuasive weight, even as it brushes up against theological objections about anthropomorphism and the distinct persons of the Trinity. It works because it trades abstraction for intimacy, and in Hinn's world, intimacy is the engine of belief.

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Hinn, Benny. (2026, January 16). What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/what-does-god-the-father-look-like-although-ive-85283/

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Hinn, Benny. "What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/what-does-god-the-father-look-like-although-ive-85283/.

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"What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/what-does-god-the-father-look-like-although-ive-85283/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Benny Hinn (born December 3, 1952) is a Clergyman from Israel.

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