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First Vision wiki articles

Overview

• Summary page

Leading up to the vision:

• Methodist camp meetings in 1820
• Religious revivals in 1820
• Place of residence in 1820

The vision:

• First Vision accounts (summary)
  • 1832 account (overview)
    • Early understanding of God?
    • No new dispensation?
    • Different age?
    • Different motivation?
    • No persecution?
    • No revival?
    • Not forbidden to convert?
    • Wicked destroyed?
    • Only one Deity?
    • In heaven or earth?
    • Unconditional salvation?
    • Struggle with Satan?
  • 1835 account (overview)
    • Personages were angels?
  • 1838 account (overview)
    • 1820 Revival?
    • "It commenced with the Methodists"
• Paul's accounts of his vision
  • Scholars solved discrepancies?
• Can't see God without priesthood?

After the vision:

• No ref in 1830s publications?
• Seldom mentioned in LDS pubs bef 1877?
• No ref in non-LDS pubs before 1843?
• Taught Joseph saw "God" in 1830 pub?
• No published ref 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)
• (long)

Other criticisms:

• D&C 121:28 contradicts vision?
• Father: Spirit vs. Embodied
• Personages seen by Joseph

Joseph Smith other visionary issues wiki articles

Moroni's visit:

• Moroni's visit (summary)
  • Nephi or Moroni in 1823?
  • A "spirit" visited Joseph in 1827?
  • Moroni as an "angel of Satan"
• 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
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Corporeality of God
  • God is "not a man"?
  • Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven?
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Creatio ex nihilo / Creation out of nothing
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
  • Creation of spirits
    • Spirit children created by sexual union?
• Dallin H. Oaks on God as seen by LDS and other Christians
• Elohim and Jehovah
  • Downplaying the King Follett discourse by President Hinckley?
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Does Elohim have a father God above him?
• Foreknowledge of God
• God is a Spirit
  • Book of Mormon says God is a spirit?
• Godhead and the Trinity and Nicene creed
  • Sabellianism/modalism in the Book of Mormon?
• Heavenly Mother?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
• 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
  • Early Christians on literal resurrection
• Theosis or human deification
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
  • Primary sources/Theosis
• Unchanging Nature of God

Video

Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories, Matthew Brown, 2006 FAIR Conference

• Part 1: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 2: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 3: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 4: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories
• Part 5: Revised or Unaltered?: Joseph Smith's Foundational Stories