Category: First Vision
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The First Vision: 200 Years Later
The Gospel Topics defense of the First Vision is examined, asking if the historical evidence really warrants such conclusions.
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Grappling with the Past — LDS Church’s New Statements on Gospel Topics
By Sandra Tanner Since its founding in 1830 by Joseph Smith, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (originally titled the Church of Christ) has struggled with its public image. Charges of fraud related to Smith’s money-digging and magic practices were a stumbling block to many from the very beginning. In subsequent years his…
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Evolution of the First Vision and Teaching on God in Early Mormonism
Different accounts of Joseph Smith’s First Vision and the perceptions of God that are related to it.
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Jerald Tanner’s Quest for Truth — Part 1
By Ronald V. Huggins Jerald TannerJune 1, 1938 — October 1, 2006 For all the saints who from their labors rest, Who thee by faith before the world confessed, Thy name, O Jesus, be for ever blest. Alleluia. Alleluia. From now on whenever Christians throughout the world sing this triumphant hymn it will be celebrating,…
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Do LDS Historical Issues Matter?
Several historical issues which are the foundation of Mormonism’s truth claims.
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First Vision or Fraud?
According to LDS church leadership, Joseph Smith’s First Vision is either authentic, or else Mormonism is a fraud.
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Joseph Smith’s 1832 Handwritten First Vision
Typescript and photo of Joseph Smith’s 1832 account of his First Vision (typescript) marvilous even in the likeness of him who created him (them) and when I considered upon these things my heart exclaimed well hath the wise man said the (it is a) fool (that) saith in his heart there is no God my…
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Mormon Claims Answered: Chapter 1
By Marvin W. Cowan Origin and History of Mormonism THE STORY AS TOLD BY MORMONS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism recorded his own story this way: I was born in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, on the twenty-third day of December, in the town of Sharon, Windsor County,…
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The Gods of Mormonism
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly referred to as the Mormon Church) now claims to have 9,000,000 members and proclaims itself to be the only true church. Mormon Apostle Bruce R. McConkie emphatically declared: This Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of…
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Dunn in the Name of God!
Confession by Emeritus General Authority of the Mormon Church Raises New Questions About the Origins of Mormonism By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1989, we found ourselves faced with a very serious decision with regard to a story that had been leaked to us concerning charges that Paul H. Dunn, who had served as a…