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| − | {{epigraph|a piller of <del>fire</del> light above the brightness of the sun at noon day come down from above and rested upon me and I was filled with the spirit of god and the <ins>Lord</ins> opened the heavens upon me and I saw the Lord and he spake unto me...<br><br>—Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision
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| − | The 1832 account of the First Vision—which is in the handwriting of Joseph Smith—says that Jesus Christ made an appearance to the Prophet; the Father is missing.
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| − | *Since this is the earliest known written account of the First Vision, it this evidence that the story evolved and became more elaborate over time?
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| − | {{:Question: Why does Joseph Smith's 1832 account of the First Vision not mention two personages?}}
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| − | {{:Question: Is there any reference to God the Father being present in Joseph Smith's 1832 account?}}
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| − | {{:Question: Why did the Prophet construct the 1832 narrative in a manner such as to exclude explicit mention of the Father's appearance?}}
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| − | {{:Question: Did any of Joseph's scribe ever say anything about Joseph's story of the vision changing over time?}}
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| − | ===None of Joseph's scribes ever mentioned anything about Joseph's story "evolving" over time===
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| − | It is interesting to note that the scribe for the material which directly precedes and follows after the 1832 First Vision narrative - Frederick G. Williams - never mentioned anything about Joseph Smith's story evolving over time and becoming more elaborate with the so-called 'addition' of the Father. Williams was a resident of Quincy, Illinois when the First Vision account which explicitly refers to the Father was published in Nauvoo, Illinois on 1 April 1842. It is known that Williams was with the Prophet in Nauvoo shortly before his death on 10 October 1842 but during the intervening six months there is no known objection by Frederick to the content of the printed text. Why not? Williams was the person who wrote down the words in the introductory remarks of the 1832 document that talk of Joseph Smith receiving "the testimony from on high" during the First Vision. And it is known that Frederick was accompanying four LDS missionaries who, in November 1830, were teaching the citizens of Painesville, Ohio that Joseph Smith had seen "God" personally (see the [[1830 statement about seeing "God"]]). Williams was a member of the First Presidency of the Church on 9 November 1835 when Joseph Smith was teaching a non-Mormon that there were two personages who appeared during the First Vision (see Joseph Smith diary, 9 November 1835). Frederick probably never drew attention to a so-called 'discrepancy' between what Joseph Smith taught in 1832, 1835, 1838, and 1842 because he knew that there wasn't one; he knew that the words of the Father spoken during the vision were referred to right in the text that he had written down in 1832.
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| − | Oliver Cowdery is another person who was in a position to know if the Prophet's First Vision story had changed over time by the addition of the Father. But he never mentioned any such 'discrepancy'. Cowdery had possession of the 1832 First Vision account when he wrote and published a series of Church history letters in December 1834 and February 1835 and so he was fully aware of the explicit mention of Christ's appearance and he also would have known of the introductory remark which refers to "the testimony from on high" being delivered during this event. Cowdery became the Associate or Assistant President of the entire Church on 5 December 1834 (''Encyclopedia of Mormonism'', 1653), and thus he would have been in the highest office of Church authority when the Prophet was teaching about one year later that two personages appeared during the First Vision (Joseph Smith diary, 9 November 1835).
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| − | Both Fredrick G. Williams and Oliver Cowdery had reason to feel animosity toward Joseph Smith and the Church since they were both excommunicated in the late 1830's. But neither of these men - even after their reinstatements into full fellowship - ever pointed to any 'creative editing' of the Prophet's First Vision story to sound more impressive and dramatic.
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