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| Joseph Smith, Jr. wiki articles |
- Character
- The Council of Fifty
- Did Joseph boast of keeping the Church intact?
- Joseph Smith's supposed narcissism?
- Greek psalter
- Healings and miracles?
- Holy Ghost, Joseph Smith is the
- Kinderhook Plates
- King of the world, anointed
- Joseph Smith land speculation
- Lazy Smiths?
- Lucy Mack Smith and Joseph's "amusing recitals" of Ancient Americans
- Was Joseph Smith a martyr?
- Masonic cry of distress
- Money digging/treasure seeking
- Moonmen
- Occult activities or "magick"?
- Personality and temperament
- Political activities
- Seer stones, use of
- Status in LDS belief
- Brigham Young applied 1 John 4:3 to Joseph?
- Teller of tall tales?
- As translator
| Joseph Smith and legal issues wiki articles |
- D&C 98 teaches Saints to disobey secular law?
- Joseph Smith and legal trials
- Kirtland Safety Society
- Nauvoo city charter
- Nauvoo Expositor
| Prophecy wiki articles |
- Joseph Smith prophecies
- Can't kill Joseph within 5 years of August 1843?
- Civil War prophecy
- David Patten to serve a mission?
- Forged prophecy about Saints in Rocky Mountains?
- Government to be overthrown and wasted
- Independence temple to be built "in this generation"
- Joseph and Orson Hyde to drink of wine in Palestine?
- Notes from Kirtland Safety Society to be "as good as gold"?
- Prophetic test in Deuteronomy
- Queens to pay respect to Relief Society within ten years?
- Second Coming in 1890 (56 years)
- Stephen A. Douglas prophecy
- Ten tribes return and wicked swept away?
- Thomas B. Marsh to be "exalted"
- United Order everlasting, immutable, and unchangeable?
- Zion redeemed by September 1836?
- Official doctrine: what is it?
Post-Joseph Smith and non-Joseph Smith prophecies
- Joseph Smith, Sr.
- Oliver Cowdery
- Martin Harris
- David Whitmer
- Revelation after Joseph Smith
- Other related issues and claims
| First Vision wiki articles |
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Overview
Leading up to the vision:
The vision:
- First Vision accounts (summary)
- Paul's accounts of his vision
- Can't see God without priesthood?
After the vision:
- No reference in 1830s publications?
- Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877?
- No reference in non-LDS publications before 1843?
- Joseph saw "God" in 1830 publication?
- No published references to Father and Son until 1838?
- Joseph unsure of God in 1823?
- Lucy joined Presbyterians in 1823?
- Joined other churches?
- All churches wrong?
- Fabricated to bolster authority?
- Details added over time?
- Created to offset leadership crisis?
Others' accounts:
- George Q. Cannon
- Cowdery version of 1834-5?
- Orson Hyde
- Andrew Jenson
- Heber C. Kimball|
- Orson Pratt
- George A. Smith
- Lucy Mack Smith
- Orson Spencer
- John Taylor
- Brigham never spoke of 1st vision?
- Brigham claimed an angel?
- Seldom published pre-1877 (short)
Other criticisms:
| Joseph Smith other visionary issues wiki articles |
Moroni's visit:
- Moroni's visit (summary)
- Joseph Smith's early conception of God
- Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith
- Swedenborg and three degrees of glory
| God wiki articles |
- The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
- Corporeality of God
- Creatio ex nihilo / Creation out of nothing
- Dallin H. Oaks on God as seen by LDS and other Christians
- Elohim and Jehovah
- Foreknowledge of God
- God is a Spirit
- Godhead and the Trinity and Nicene creed
- Heavenly Mother?
- Infinite regress of Gods?
- Kolob
- "No God beside me" - (includes Isaiah 43-46 issues)
- No man has seen God
- Polytheism - Are Mormons polytheists?
- Spirit bodies for humans and 1 Cor 15
- Theosis or human deification
- Unchanging Nature of God