FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Question: What differences are there between Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account and later accounts?
- Did Joseph Smith claim to see only one Personage in his 1832 vision account?
- Did Joseph give a different age in the 1832 account?
- Did Joseph's 1832 account not mention any religious revivals in his area?
- Was Joseph's motivation in the 1832 account different than later accounts?
- Was the idea of a new dispensation a later addition to Joseph's account?
- Did Joseph really not mention being forbidden to join other churches in 1832?
- Was persecution for his vision absent in Joseph's 1832 account?
- Why isn't the Prophet's struggle with Satan in the 1832 account?
- Why does the 1832 account mention destruction of the wicked but the 1838 account doesn't?
- Is the 1832 vision set in heaven or on the earth?
- Does the 1832 account say that eternal life is given to everyone regardless of church affiliation?