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*What I learned growing up in the Church: Joseph Smith was a pure, innocent boy. | |||
*What the history/facts tell us: Joseph used a "magical peep stone" to help people find buried treasure. | |||
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*What I learned growing up in the Church: Joseph Smith turned down alcohol in surgery | |||
**What the history/facts tell us: Joseph drank beer and wine as an adult (his own journal) | |||
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*What I learned growing up in the Church: Joseph Smith saw God and Jesus | |||
*What the history/facts tell us: First vision has multiple, and varied accounts (Pres. Hinckley) | |||
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*What I learned growing up in the Church: Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon using the "Urim and Thummim" | |||
*What the history/facts tell us:The same "peep stone" was used to translate the Book of Mormon—Stone in the hat, plates not in sight (Russell M. Nelson) | |||
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|claim=What I learned growing up in the Church: Joseph Smith had one wife—Emma | |||
*What the history/facts tell us: Joseph had 30 wives, some of them married to other men, several teenagers (familysearch.org) | |||
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*What I learned growing up in the Church: Joseph Smith was falsely accused and persecuted | |||
*What the history/facts tell us: [Joseph's use of a "magical peep stone"] was the reason for some of the early "trials" and court cases involving Joseph (Court records) Joseph denied polygamy publicly (Oaks) | |||
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*What I learned growing up in the Church: Joseph Smith went to the jail in Carthage like a "Lamb to the Slaughter" | |||
*What the history/facts tell us: Exposure of polygamy and destruction of printing press led to martyrdom. | |||
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*What I learned growing up in the Church: Joseph Smith was 2nd to Jesus in Righteousness (no man has done more for the salvation of others except Jesus Christ) | |||
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