Reason #21 — Multiple Versions of the First Vision of Joseph Smith
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At the Nauvoo Christian Visitors Center in Nauvoo, Illinois, a nine-square quilt hangs that depicts each of nine different versions of that first vision. Edmond C. Gruss and Lane A. Thuet have identified eleven versions. Richard Abanes, in his comprehensive book, One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church, has provided two clear [...]
continue reading this post...Reason #20 — Problems with Joseph Smith’s “First Vision”
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Joseph Smith’s own accounts of the first vision must be viewed with some reservations. No mention of his “First Vision” —which supposedly took place in 1820—was ever made in print, until twenty years later when Orson Pratt, a longtime friend of Joseph Smith, published an account of the vision in a book called Remarkable Visions. [...]
continue reading this post...Reason #19 — The Inordinate LDS View of Joseph Smith
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Brigham Young once stated that Joseph’s consent was required for a person to be able to enter into the celestial kingdom of heaven, because Joseph was now reigning there, like God. He also said that Joseph “was a god to us” and that he himself was “an apostle of Joseph Smith,” saying [...]
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