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| − | ==Criticism==
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| − | Joseph Smith left several accounts of his First Vision. None of these accounts is identical with any other. As the main page discusses, some critics wish to argue that Joseph's vision accounts are mutually contradictory, and thus that there was no vision.
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| − | Latter-day Saints often point out that the Bible's accounts of Paul's vision on the road to Damascus appear to be contradictory. Yet, the Church's sectarian critics accept Paul's account as true despite the Bible containing apparently frank contradictions in its accounts. While accepting or explaining away these discrepancies, the critics nevertheless refuse to give Joseph Smith the same latitude. Members of the Church have long pointed out that this is a clear double standard, designed to bias the audience against Joseph from the beginning.
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| − | Perhaps because of the force of this argument, some critics have begun to argue that no contradiction exists between the versions of Paul's vision. For example, Richard Abanes wrote that contradictions in the stories of Paul's vision were
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| − | :"long ago resolved by scholars analyzing the Greek texts. The discrepancies in Paul's account involve modern ignorance of the Greek wording used."{{ref|abanes.1}} | |
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| − | In support of this claim, Abanes cites W.E. Vine, ''Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words'', p. 544.
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| − | ===Source(s) of the Criticism===
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| − | *{{CriticalWork:Abanes:Becoming Gods|pages=42, 43 (sidebar)}}
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| − | ==Response==
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| − | The work cited by Abanes is not a recent work of Greek scholarship—it was first published in 1940.{{ref|vine.1}}
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| − | Heard voice, saw no one?
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| − | Saw light, heard no voice?
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| − | "And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man."
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| − | And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
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| − | ==Conclusion==
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| − | {{nw}}
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| − | ==Endnotes==
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| − | #{{note|abanes.1}} {{CriticalWork:Abanes:Becoming Gods|pages=42, 43 (sidebar)}}
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| − | #{{note|vine.1}} W.E. Vine's M.A., ''Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words'' (1940). {{link|url=http://www2.mf.no/bibel/vines.html}}
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| − | ==Further reading==
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| − | ===FAIR wiki articles===
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| − | {{FirstVisionWiki}}
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| − | ===FAIR web site===
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| − | ===External links===
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| − | ===Printed material===
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