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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Source:Brigham Young:1855:JD 3:51:we know that he was an honorable man and dealt justly, we know his true character (← links)
- Source:Joseph Smith:Letter to Oliver Cowdery:December 1834:during this time, as is common to most, or all youths, I fell into many vices and follies (← links)
- Source:B.H. Roberts:CHC 2:360-361:Joseph Smith was a man of like passions with other men; struggling with the same weaknesses; subjected to the same temptations (← links)
- Source:Joseph Smith:I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature (← links)
- Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail" (← links)
- Seminary Manual (2013): "Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts" (← links)
- Backman (1985): "On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts of his sacred experience of 1820" (← links)
- 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" (← links)
- Neuenschwander (2009): "Joseph's vision was at first an intensely personal experience...it became the founding revelation of the Restoration" (← links)
- Gordon B. Hinckley (1984): "I am not worried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision" (← links)
- 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" (← links)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Joseph Smith's accounts of the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith state in his 1832 First Vision account that he was in his "16th year" of age? (← links)
- Question: Are the ages stated in Joseph's accounts of the First Vision 'all over the place?' (← links)
- Question: Is there a case where Joseph stated that his age was 17 rather than 14 at the time of the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision? (← links)
- Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820? (← links)
- Question: How do the First Vision accounts compare on the subject of Joseph's motivation for praying? (← links)
- Question: Why would the Book of Mormon mention swine if they were living the Law of Moses? (← links)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (← links)
- 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)