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|L1=Question: How early was the story of the First Vision known among the members of the Church?
|L2=The Joseph Smith Papers: "The historical preamble to the 1830 'articles and covenants,' for example, appears to reference JS’s vision in speaking of a moment when 'it truly was manifested unto this first elder, that he had received a remission of his sins'"
|L3=Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision?
|L4=Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s?
|L5=Question: Was the general membership of the LDS Church not familiar with the First Vision story until late in the nineteenth century?
|L6=Question: What LDS publications between 1840 and 1877 include references to Joseph Smith's First Vision?
|L7=Question: Is there any mention of the First Vision in non-Mormon literature before 1843?
|L8=Question: If the First Vision story was known by the public before 1840, then would anti-Mormons “surely” have seized upon it as an evidence of Joseph Smith’s imposture?
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{{:Question: How early was the story of the First Vision known among the members of the Church?}}
{{:Source:Joseph Smith Papers:The historical preamble to the 1830 'articles and covenants,' for example, appears to reference JS’s vision}}
{{:Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision?}}
{{:Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s?}}
{{:Question: Was the general membership of the LDS Church not familiar with the First Vision story until late in the nineteenth century?}}
{{:Question: What LDS publications between 1840 and 1877 include references to Joseph Smith's First Vision?}}
{{:Question: Is there any mention of the First Vision in non-Mormon literature before 1843?}}
{{:Question: If the First Vision story was known by the public before 1840, then would anti-Mormons “surely” have seized upon it as an evidence of Joseph Smith’s imposture?}}
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|link=http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/fair-conferences/2013-fair-conference/2013-joseph-smiths-visions-his-style-and-his-record
|author=Ron Barney
|authorlink=http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/authors/barney-ron
|title=Joseph Smith’s Visions: His Style and his Record
|publication=Proceedings of the 2013 FAIR Conference
|date=1 August 2013
|summary=Joseph Smith left a tradition wherein it is clear that he claimed to have experienced a number of divine encounters with heavenly beings. Brodie, Decker, and Hunt would have you believe that any reasonable person, after witnessing these heavenly manifestations, would have run home, grabbed his diary to carefully describe in great detail what he experienced before sprinting from neighbor to neighbor shouting, “Guess what happened to me?” And then after the next heavenly event he witnessed, they demand, he would have done the same thing: “Guess what happened to me this time,” and so on. The best historical evidence demonstrates that this line of thinking concerning Joseph Smith is a defective premise, entirely.
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