THE FIRST VISION STORY REVIVED
The First Vision Story Revived | Religious Studies Center - BYU
The other was a fictitious event, the First Vision, which was gradually forming in his imagination after 1830. In the process of combining his manufactured ...
First Vision Accounts - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The first of these, known today as Joseph Smith—History, was canonized in the Pearl of Great Price and thus became the best known account. The two unpublished ...
In the oldest version of the 1st vision, recorded 12 years after Smith ...
The story of the First Vision was not printed in the 1830s. What would later become the official account of the First Vision wasn't printed ...
Misleading Mormon Thoughts On The First Vision Since 1970
The article and gospel topic essay both also ignore the fact that there is not a single record of the first vision story, until 12 years later, ...
The Original Context of the First Vision Narrative: 1820s or 1830s
In the late '60s Wesley Walters fired a shot heard round the Mormon history world by arguing that there was no 1820 revival. Forty-five years of battle ...
Raising the Stakes: How Joseph Smith's First Vision Became All or ...
Bushman, “The First Vision Story Revived,” Dialogue 4, no. 1 (Spring. 1969): 83–93, reports “consternation” on p. 83. James B. Allen had been ...
Joseph Smith's First Vision: Fact or Fiction?
Joseph Smith arbitrarily moved that revival back four years to 1820 and made it fit a First Vision story that neither his mother nor other close associates had ...
Topic Pages: First Vision - Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
In “Another Look at The First Vision,” Larson mentioned that the 1832 account was orginally in Joseph Smith's orginal ledger. At some point the ...
New Light on Joseph Smith's First Vision
A revival as described by Joseph Smith did occur there beginning in the spring of 1824. However, this then seriously disrupts Joseph's whole ...
The Fruits of the First Vision
Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. First I exercised simple ...
Is the Account of Joseph Smith's First Vision Reliable?
A spiritual revival took place in the area of Palmyra, New York, where Joseph and his family were living at the time. Church attendance and ...
Of the many truths we learn from the First Vision, this is one of my ...
Speaking of the First Vision, Elder Uchtdorf said, “Think of that for a moment! The God of the universe appeared to man!” And perhaps that's one ...
The Legacy of the First Vision - James D. Holt
Joseph F. Smith once described the First Vision thus: “The greatest event that has ever occurred in the world, since the resurrection of the Son of God from ...
Joseph Smith's First Vision vs. The Resurrection of Jesus
The details that he and his associates gave about that revival closely match a revival that did take place but that we know from documentary ...
How Joseph Smith's First Vision Changed over Time
The pamphlet takes you from 1820 (the year the LDS Church claims Smith received the revelation) to 1888, noting how Smith's vision is portrayed ...
Joseph Smith and “The” “First” “Vision” - wasmormon.org
The canonized version of the story is that Joseph Smith “lacked wisdom” in which church was true, so he read James 1:5 and goes to ask God.
The First Vision refers to a theophany which Latter Day Saints believe Joseph Smith experienced in the early 1820s, in a wooded area in Manchester, ...
Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1832/Doesn't mention a revival
Summary: A religious revival is not mentioned in Joseph Smith's handwritten 1832 First Vision account. Since this detail does not show up in the narrative until ...
“What Was to Be Done” (The First Vision Podcast, Episode 2)
Spencer: In 1817, while standing upon the rapidly changing landscape around Palmyra, New York, a twelve-year-old Joseph Smith would look up at the sun, the moon ...
Eight Contemporary Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision
Walters, “New Light on Mormon Origins from the. Palmyra Revival,” Dialogue, Vol. 4 (Spring, 1969), pp. 59-81. Richard'. L. Bushman, “The First Vision Story ...