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Prophet John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, v. We will not stop to argue that question the angel merely told him to join none of them that none of them were right.” The answer was that none of them are right. just as it was when the Prophet Joseph asked the angel which of the sects was right that he might join it.
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Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. But He did send His angel to this same obscure person, Joseph Smith Jun., who afterwards became a Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, and informed him that he should not join any of the religious sects of the day, for they were all wrong.” The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven, in power and great glory, nor send His messengers panoplied with aught else than the truth of heaven, to communicate to the meek, the lowly, and the youth of humble origin, the sincere enquirer after the knowledge of God. “The messenger did not come to an eminent divine of any of the so-called orthodoxy, he did not adopt their interpretations of the Holy Scriptures. Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., Joseph Smith's Diary, 1835-1836, p. I was about 14 years old when I received this first communication.”
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“I called on the Lord in mighty prayer, a pillar of fire appeared above my head, it presently rested down upon me, and filled me with joy unspeakable, a personage appeared in the midst of this pillar of flame which was spread all around, and yet nothing consumed, another personage soon appeared like unto the first, he said unto me thy sins are forgiven thee, he testifyed unto me that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and I saw many angels in this vision. I was filled with the spirit of god and the Lord opened the heavens upon me and I saw the Lord and he spake unto me saying Joseph my son they sins are forgiven thee, go thy way walk in my statutes and keep my commandments behold I am the Lord of glory.” Church Historian, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Autumn 1966, pp. the general membership of the Church knew little, if anything, about it.” “None of the available contemporary writings about Joseph Smith in the 1830's, none of the publications of the Church in that decade, and no contemporary journal or correspondence yet discovered mentions the story of the first vision. Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My History, pp. Or it may have been sheer invention, created some time after 1834 when the need arose for a magnificent tradition to cancel out the stories of his fortune-telling and money-digging.” The awesome vision he described in later years may have been the elaboration of some half-remembered dream stimulated by the early revival excitement and reinforcement by the rich folklore of visions circulating in his neighborhood. “If something happened that spring morning in 1820, it passed totally unnoticed in Joseph's home town, and apparently did not even fix itself in the minds of members of his own family. Joseph's own description of the first vision was not published until 1842, twenty-two years after the memorable event. The first published mormon history, begun with Joseph's collaboration in 1834 by Oliver Cowdery, ignored it altogether. But no one in this long period even intimated that he had heard the story of the two gods. Between 18 Joseph's friends were writing long panegyrics his enemies were defaming him in an unceasing stream of affidavits and pamphlets, and Joseph himself was dictating several volumes of Bible-flavored prose. “The description of the Vision was first published by Orson Pratt in his Remarkable Visions in 1840, twenty years after it was supposed to have occurred. Brigham Young, G.A.Smith, and John Taylor to John Wentworth, editor of Chicago DemocratĦ. No question, sins forgiven, Jesus is the Son.ĥ. Joseph Smith Jr.'s diary of 1835, recorded by Warren Cowdery, November 9, 1835 No question, sins forgiven, all sects do no good.Ĥ. Written by Joseph Smith, Jr., in his own hand in his 1832 diary. See Joseph Smith's First Vision, Appendix A, page 155fģ. No question, told "None doeth good", sins forgiven Lucy Mack Smith, Hyrum Smith, Samuel Smith, and Sophronia Smith join the Presbyterian Church - JSH, pp. Published in 1842 see Ensign January 1985, p. Various Versions of First Vision Account: