The 1832 account is the earliest known version, written in Joseph Smith’s own handwriting 12 years after the event and there is no other contemporary record from anyone. It was written in a letterbook but never publicly known until the 1960s. This version was removed from the letterbook and hidden in a safe when Joseph Fielding Smith first found it because it was so strange.
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https://wasmormon.org/why-worry-about-different-versions-of-the-first-vision/
Hinckley says he's not worried that Joseph Smith's multiple versions of his First Vision. He dismisses these different versions of the vision without ever mentioning any differences in the accounts. His goal is calming members who have heard of these strange accounts, and hope they will not look at them.
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Today, the fact that Joseph Smith was involved in treasure digging is undisputed, yet still hardly common knowledge among members of the church.
https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-was-a-glass-looking-treasure-digger/
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https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-was-a-glass-looking-treasure-digger/
LDS Historian, Richard Bushman concedes that Joseph Smith was looking for treasure. He argues that this was “part of a culture found virtually everywhere,” “something like reading astrological charts today—a little goofy but harmless,” “too commonplace to be scandalous,” “too common in the nineteenth century for it to invalidate Joseph Smith,” because, he states “folk traditions and religion blend.”
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"We have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the fact is the history of the church is clear and open and leads to faith and strength and virtues." Gordon B. Hinckley, LDS Church President.
Ok seriously? 😳
https://wasmormon.org/nothing-to-hide/
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The Church and Victim Blaming Victims of Abuse
https://wasmormon.org/the-church-and-victim-blaming-victims-of-abuse/
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Truths From Mormon Satan – Or Someone Who Plays Lucifer in the Temple, Corbin Allred
https://wasmormon.org/truths-from-mormon-satan-or-someone-who-portrayed-him-in-the-temple/
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Book of Mormon Anachronisms – Slippery Treasures and Treasure Digging Concepts
The Smith family and other treasure seekers believed that enchantments on buried treasure had the power to move the location of the treasure under the earth so that those seeking the hidden valuables could not acquire them. These were called slippery treasures.
https://wasmormon.org/book-of-mormon-anachronisms-slippery-treasures-and-treasure-digging-concepts/ #exmormon #josephsmith #Mormonism #ldsquotes #bookofmormon #treasure #seerstone
