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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "I saw many angels in this vision...I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication" (← links)
- Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of angels, which was when I was about fourteen years old" (← links)
- Joseph Smith: "Jesus Christ became a ministering spirit (while his body was lying in the sepulcher)...After His resurrection He appeared as an angel to His disciples" (← links)
- Question: At what age did Joseph Smith become concerned about religion? (← links)
- Question: What statements did Joseph Smith make about religious excitement in the area of Palmyra? (← links)
- Question: What religious excitement was occurring in Palmyra in 1820? (← links)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (← links)
- Question: What evidence of religious excitement is there from non-Mormon sources? (← links)
- 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 (← links)
- Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers? (← links)
- 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 (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision? (← links)
- Source:Benajah Williams:July 1820:Had a two Days meeting at Sq Bakers in Richmond (← links)
- Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision? (← links)
- The Joseph Smith Papers: "The historical preamble to the 1830 'articles and covenants,'...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'" (← links)
- Question: How early was the story of the First Vision known among the members of the Church? (← links)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith decide that all churches were wrong before he received the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision not mention two personages? (← links)
- Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? (← links)
- Question: Why did the Prophet construct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance? (← links)
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time? (← links)
- Question: Did the actual words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision? (← links)
- Joseph Smith (1832): "a piller of fire light above the brightness of the sun at noon day come down from above" (← links)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a pillar of fire appeared above my head...a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame" (← links)
- 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" (← links)
- Joseph Smith (1842): "surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day" (← links)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith state the he was visited by two personages and then just five days later say that he was visited by angels? (← links)
- Joseph Smith (9 Nov. 1835): "a personage appeard in the midst of this pillar of flame...another personage soon appeard like unto the first...and I saw many angels in this vision" (← links)
- Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14" (← links)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 9 November 1835 account of the First Vision mention "many angels?" (← links)
- Question: Does the use of the capitalized word "Angel" in the 14 November 1835 account refer to Deity? (← links)
- Question: What are the two 1835 First Vision accounts that refer to angels? (← links)
- Question: Does the 14 November 1835 account reference to the "first vision of Angels" mean that Joseph Smith did not see Deity? (← links)
- Question: Was the ''History of the Church'' falsified when "first visitation of Angels" was changed to "my first vision"? (← links)
- Question: Were missing portions of Facsimile 2 incorrectly restored? (← links)
- Christensen: "Runnells shifts the argument regarding the First Vision from 'absolutely no record of' to...'the first vision was unknown to the Saints and the world before 1832'" (← links)
- Christensen: "Notice again the shift from an original argument against the priesthood restoration based on 'no such claim until 1834' to a much softer complaint about the general membership being 'unfamiliar with the now official story.'" (← links)
- Question: Why did several years pass before Oliver Cowdery talked about the priesthood restoration? (← links)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "The name of the person here, who pretends to have a divine mission, and to have seen and conversed with Angels, is Cowdray" (← links)
- The Palmyra Reflector (1831): "Jo Smith had now received a commission from God...Cowdery and his friends had frequent interviews with angels" (← links)
- Question: What is the date of the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (← links)
- Question: Where was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (← links)
- Question: What criticisms are put forth regarding the restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood? (← links)
- Question: In what manner was the Aaronic Priesthood restored? (← links)
- Question: In what manner was the Melchizedek Priesthood restored? (← links)
- Reverend Taggart (1833): "Joe Smith...told them he had seen Jesus Christ and the Apostles and conversed with them, and that he could perform miracles" (← links)
- Painesville Telegraph (1830): "Cowdry claims that he and his associates are the only persons on earth who are qualified to administer in his name. By this authority, they proclaim to the world" (← links)
- Question: How did Elder Holland respond during a BBC interview when asked how the Book of Abraham was translated? (← links)