[Alex Murphy]

If you can't get to the actual URL, try this Google cache of the article.

I failed to heed a simple, but profound and powerful truth uttered from the lips of our Savior:
"…by their fruits you shall know them…"

Related FR threads on Lynn Ridenhour:
The Baptist version of The Book of Mormon
Clearing up Baptist Background Controversy

For a timeline of Ridenhour's activities and whereabouts prior to this article, see these posts:
1963-1996, omitting 1985-1990
State of Kansas: Lynn Ridenhour's conviction for securities fraud: 1985 - 1990

[Veto!]

Huh? Who are these people?

2) He then exasperates a problem

YES, I'm sure he does. Exacerbates it too, I'll bet. But I really don't care.

[WKB]

Baptist Ping

[colorcountry]

Flying Inman Ping.

I don’t know much about this man Ridenhour, but he certainly describes a sociopathic con-man to a tee. Sounds a bit like Prophet Joseph Smith.

[arderkrag]

He's saying -- one of his own followers can minister under his anointing, and the Lord not know that person. Not be intimate with him. Because of strongholds in that person's life, the Lord "does not know him." Does he know the Lord? Yes. Is he saved? Yes. Can he minister under the anointing and still be in bondage to all kinds of dark, demonic strongholds in his personal life at the same time? Yes. Can he "mix" the two worlds in his ministry? Mix the dark side? And the light? Yes. Can he draw from both good and evil? Yes. Can he use white and black magic--and the anointing of the Lord? Yes.

See, I disagree with this. If you are saved, the Lord knows you. Period. The people the Lord is referring to in Matt.7:21-23 are people who claim to be saved and "anointed" (a term I don't like as it is used by the decidedly non-Christian charismatic movement) and who lead others astray (Ex. - Kenneth Copeland and others like him). These people aren't Christians and never have been. They are lost.

And the will of the Father referenced in the verse by Our Lord is the acceptance of the gift of eternal life.

[count-your-change]

Sounds like con man meets corn pone.
The pulpit wasn’t all they were sharing and ole John seems to have gotten away with more than a fair share of the spoils.
Just ain’t no honor among thieves anymore.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Not this loon again.

Good to see you back Alex. Drop by and let some of your old friends know how you’re doing.

[TFMcGuire]

Sounds like Old Joe Smith.

What in the world is a “Baptist Mormon.” Sort of sounds like a “Christian Pagan” or a “Drunken Teetotaler.”