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This article is posted to allow open discussion of a previous thread regarding the author.     The Christmas Story and Joseph Smith, Restorer of the Gospel of Jesus Christby Lynn Ridenhour It's that time of year again. A time to love. A time to be a child again. A time to accept everyone & everything. It's time for the Christmas Story. We all know it. And it's a blessed theme. May I put a new spin on it?... Much of the symbolism of the Christmas story, I believe, wraps around one of my favorite persons——Joseph Smith, Jr. Take, for...

By Greater Things News Service (Not officially affiliated with Ezekiel Conference) Lynn Ridenhour addresses the Ezekiel Conference at the Unitarian Church on Highland Drive in Salt Lake City, January 22, 2005 Lynn Ridenhour with Sterling Allan a Mormon descendant, who put his arm around Ridenhour while he was seeking to regain his composure while tearfully reading the Statement of Repentance.. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- Southern Baptist Minister, Lynn Ridenhour, issued a tearful public apology Saturday to the Mormons for the actions of his ancestors in persecuting and driving the Mormons from Missouri in the 1800's. Speaking at the invitation...

A lot of ink has been spilled, and a lot of electrons spent, in the past 24 or so hours, on this topic. And it would be very easy for me to simply sit down and write a defense of Jerry, or a critique, or to simply post a rant against the people who (as happened last night on Anderson Cooper 360) will simply choose to call names and hate, even as they cry out against his "hatred." But that's all been done before. Ever since I walked on campus at Liberty University in August of 1986, I've been defending...

An expose of John C. Bayley as a seducer of hundreds of women using the ruse of the name of God via dark magic. I've been an ordained minister of the gospel since 1965. Been preaching the gospel nearly 50 years now, and for the past five years I have been a victim of John C. Bayley's dark, deep deceptions. And paid big time for it. He destroyed my family. 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…" As said, I paid "big...

An Open Letter from Lynn Ridenhour Addresses skeptical claims that he has never been a Baptist Minister and that he has never taught at Jerry Falwell's Liberty College. March 23, 2001 Dear Brothers & Sisters, It has come to my attention that some of you have received misinformation regarding my past, particularly my Baptist background. I wish to clear up the matter. I have received three or four letters from some of you, saying that you had contacted Jerry Falwell’s university about my teaching there in the past and that—to use one person’s own words, "…I have done some checking...

The Baptist Version of The Book of Mormon Protestant Doctrines within the Book of Mormon by Lynn Ridenhour, Southern Baptist Minister I’m a licensed Southern Baptist minister and I embrace the Book of Mormon. That is, I believe the truths recorded in it. No, I’m not a convert to the Mormon faith, nor am I a member of any particular "spin-off" restoration group such as the RLDS (Reorganized Latter-day Saints), Hedrikites, or Strangites. I’m still a Baptist minister. To be exact, I’m "charismatic Baptist." That is, I still embrace the "born again" experience. I still believe you’re saved by grace....