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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 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 (transclusion) (← 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 (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Joseph Smith:I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature (transclusion) (← links)
- Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail" (transclusion) (← links)
- Seminary Manual (2013): "Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts" (transclusion) (← links)
- Backman (1985): "On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts of his sacred experience of 1820" (transclusion) (← 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" (transclusion) (← links)
- Neuenschwander (2009): "Joseph's vision was at first an intensely personal experience...it became the founding revelation of the Restoration" (transclusion) (← links)
- Gordon B. Hinckley (1984): "I am not worried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision" (transclusion) (← 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" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What are the criticisms related to Joseph Smith's accounts of the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith state in his 1832 First Vision account that he was in his "16th year" of age? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Are the ages stated in Joseph's accounts of the First Vision 'all over the place?' (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is there a case where Joseph stated that his age was 17 rather than 14 at the time of the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What was Joseph Smith's motivation for going to the grove to pray in 1820? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How do the First Vision accounts compare on the subject of Joseph's motivation for praying? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why would the Book of Mormon mention swine if they were living the Law of Moses? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: By what name did Joseph Smith refer to the First Vision? (transclusion) (← 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" (transclusion) (← links)
- Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of angels, which was when I was about fourteen years old" (transclusion) (← 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" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: At what age did Joseph Smith become concerned about religion? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What statements did Joseph Smith make about religious excitement in the area of Palmyra? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What religious excitement was occurring in Palmyra in 1820? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was there no mention of revival activity in 1820 in the newspaper? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What evidence of religious excitement is there from non-Mormon sources? (transclusion) (← 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 (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Were revivals and religious excitement too common to be noticed in the newspapers? (transclusion) (← 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 (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith simply conflate elements of the 1818 and 1824-25 revivals in his story of the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Source:Benajah Williams:July 1820:Had a two Days meeting at Sq Bakers in Richmond (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why didn't the newspapers in Palmyra take notice of Joseph Smith's First Vision? (transclusion) (← 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'" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How early was the story of the First Vision known among the members of the Church? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What references to the First Vision exist in published documents from the 1830s? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith decide that all churches were wrong before he received the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision not mention two personages? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why did the Prophet construct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did any of Joseph's scribes ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did the actual words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision? (transclusion) (← links)
- Joseph Smith (1832): "a piller of fire light above the brightness of the sun at noon day come down from above" (transclusion) (← 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" (transclusion) (← 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" (transclusion) (← links)
- Joseph Smith (1842): "surrounded with a brilliant light which eclipsed the sun at noon-day" (transclusion) (← 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? (transclusion) (← 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" (transclusion) (← links)
- Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of Angels which was when I was about 14" (transclusion) (← links)