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- Brigham Young (1861): "The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him visions" (view source)
- George A. Smith (1864 - quoting Joseph Smith): "When the light rested upon me I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description...'This is my beloved son, hear him'" (view source)
- George A. Smith (1868): "revealed to Joseph by the ministration of angels, the true condition of the religious world" (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)
- Juncker (1994): "Unknown to many, the early church fathers often referred to Jesus as an Angel....in antiquity the word 'angel' meant 'messenger'" (view source)
- Orson Pratt (1840): "a very bright and glorious light in the heavens...He expected to have seen the leaves and boughs of the trees consumed, as soon as the light came in contact with them" (view source)
- Prothero (2003): "in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing" (view source)
- Question: Did Brigham Young confirm or expound on Joseph Smith’s first vision? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision? (view source)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith decide that all churches were wrong before he received the First Vision? (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: How could Joseph Smith come to the conclusion that all churches were wrong on his own? (view source)
- Question: Is there any mention of the First Vision in non-Mormon literature before 1843? (view source)
- Question: Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ? (view source)
- Question: Was George A. Smith unaware that the Father and Son appeared to Joseph Smith during the First Vision? (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: What LDS publications between 1840 and 1877 include references to Joseph Smith's First Vision? (view source)
- Question: What did Brigham Young say that leads one to believe that he denied the First Vision? (view source)
- Question: What did John Taylor have to say about Joseph Smith's First Vision? (view source)
- Question: What differences are there between Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account and later accounts? (view source)
- Question: What do critics of Mormonism say about John Taylor and the First Vision? (view source)
- Question: What do critics of the Church say about John Taylor and the First Vision? (view source)
- Question: What is Brigham Young claimed to have said that leads one to doubt that he denied the First Vision? (view source)
- Question: What is the difference between Joseph Smith's first vision and other reported visions of God at the time? (view source)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (view source)
- Question: When and how often did Brigham Young refer to elements of Joseph Smith's First Vision in his discourses? (view source)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 9 November 1835 account of the First Vision mention "many angels?" (view source)
- Question:Is there anything wrong with early Church leaders using the term "angel" to refer to Jesus Christ? (view source)
- Wilford Woodruff (1855): "Joseph Smith, whom I did call upon by mine angels, my ministering servants, and by mine own voice out of the heavens" (view source)
- Woodruff (1890): "the Father and the Son both appeared to the Prophet Joseph in answer to his prayer" (view source)
- Woodruff (1892): "the Father and Son both appeared to the man whom He had chosen" (view source)
- Woodruff (1894): "Both the Father and the Son presented themselves unto him in the clouds of heaven" (view source)
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