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- Allen (1970): "the Prophet described his experience to friends and acquaintances at least as early as 1831-32...he continued to do so in varying detail until the year of his death" (view source)
- Allen:Improvement Era:April 1970:he continued to do so in varying detail until the year of his death (view source)
- Backman (1985): "On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts of his sacred experience of 1820" (view source)
- Brigham Young (1855): "The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven...But He did send His angel to this same obscure person, Joseph Smith jun" (view source)
- Brigham Young (1861): "The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him visions" (view source)
- Brigham Young (1867): "the Lord called upon Joseph he was but a boy—a child, only about fourteen years of age" (view source)
- Church History Seminary Teacher Manual:2013:Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts (view source)
- Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail" (view source)
- John Taylor (2 March 1879): "the Father and the Son...came to Joseph Smith" and "the Prophet Joseph asked the angel" (view source)
- Question: At what age did Joseph Smith become concerned about religion? (view source)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (view source)
- Question: Did Brigham Young confirm or expound on Joseph Smith’s first vision? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith begin his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph began his prophetic career with a "trinitarian" idea of God? (view source)
- Question: Did Lucy Mack Smith state when she joined the Presbyterians? (view source)
- Question: Did Oliver Cowdery state that Joseph did not know if a "supreme being" existed in 1823? (view source)
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff have knowledge of the First Vision prior to his 1855 remarks about an angel? (view source)
- Question: Did Wilford Woodruff teach something other than the traditional story of the First Vision? (view source)
- Question: Did the details of Joseph’s First Vision experience appear to have changed when communicating to his followers such that the elders of the Church did not know that Joseph saw two personages? (view source)
- Question: Is there any mention of the First Vision in non-Mormon literature before 1843? (view source)
- Question: Was Oliver Cowdery aware of the details of the First Vision that were written in Joseph Smith's 1832 history? (view source)
- Question: Was the general membership of the LDS Church not familiar with the First Vision story until late in the nineteenth century? (view source)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (view source)
- Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers? (view source)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Joseph Smith's accounts of the First Vision? (view source)
- Question: What criticisms are related to Oliver Cowdery's 1834-1835 history of the Church? (view source)
- Question: What evidence of religious excitement is there from non-Mormon sources? (view source)
- Question: What religious excitement was occurring in Palmyra in 1820? (view source)
- Question: When and how often did Brigham Young refer to elements of Joseph Smith's First Vision in his discourses? (view source)
- Richard J. Maynes: "Joseph wrote or dictated four known accounts of his First Vision" (view source)
- Seminary Manual (2013): "Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts" (view source)
- Source:Backman:Ensign:January 1985:On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts (view source)
- Source:Benajah Williams:July 1820:Had a two Days meeting at Sq Bakers in Richmond (view source)
- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 2:171:The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven (view source)
- Source:Brigham Young:1861:JD 8:354:The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him visions (view source)
- Source:Brigham Young:1867:JD 12:67:the Lord called upon Joseph he was but a boy—a child, only about fourteen years of age (view source)
- Source:Christofferson:The Prophet Joseph Smith:BYUI Devotional:2013:Critics have also claimed that there were no religious revivals in the Palmyra, New York, area in 1820 (view source)
- Source:Gospel Topics:The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story (view source)
- Source:John Taylor:2 March 1879:JD 20:167 and 257:First Vision Father and Son or angel (view source)
- Source:Maynes:Young Adult Devotional:1 May 2016:Joseph wrote or dictated four known accounts of his First Vision (view source)
- Source:Palmyra Register:28 June 1820:5 July 1820:It was far from our intention to charge the Methodists with retailing ardent spirits while professedly met for the worship of their God (view source)
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