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Orson Spencer said an "angel" was the first manifestation?
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Criticism
Orson Spencer wrote a letter from Nauvoo, Illinois in 1842 that said Joseph Smith's "first" spiritual manifestsation was of an angel - not the Father and the Son.
Source(s) of the criticism
Jerald Tanner and Sandra Tanner, The Case Against Mormonism, (Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm Co., 1967), 98.
Response
Conclusion
Endnotes
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Further reading
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