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Joseph Smith's First Vision/Multiple accounts of the First Vision/A "mormoninfographic" indicates that the 1835 "Erastus Holmes" account describes a different vision
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A "mormoninfographic" indicates that the 1835 "Erastus Holmes" account describes a different vision
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A "mormoninfographic" indicates that the 1835 "Erastus Holmes" account describes a different vision.
Answer
Joseph had described his vision in detail in his journal just five days earlier (9 November 1835) when he described his visit with "Joshua the Jewish Minister." When he described his visit with Erastus Holmes, he simply referred to it as the "first visitation of Angels."
The graphic implies that he didn't mention every other element of the vision, and that this makes it inconsistent. However, Joseph was simply offering a one-line summary of the event that he had described only five days earlier in his journal.