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Multiple accounts of the First Vision

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• Question: What are the criticisms related to Joseph Smith's accounts of the First Vision?
• Richard J. Maynes: "Joseph wrote or dictated four known accounts of his First Vision"
• Gospel Topics: "The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story, though naturally they differ in emphasis and detail"
• Church History Seminary Teacher Manual:2013:Joseph Smith emphasized different aspects of his vision in his multiple accounts
• Backman (1985): "On at least four different occasions, Joseph Smith either wrote or dictated to scribes accounts of his sacred experience of 1820"
• Allen:Improvement Era:April 1970:he continued to do so in varying detail until the year of his death
• Neuenschwander:Ensign:January 2009:Joseph's vision was at first an intensely personal experience...it became the founding revelation of the Restoration
• Hinckley:Ensign:October 1984:I am not worried that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave a number of versions of the first vision
• Prothero:American Jesus:2003:in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing
• Question: Did the details of Joseph’s First Vision experience appear to have changed when communicating to his followers such that the elders of the Church did not know that Joseph saw two personages?
• Question: Does Doctrine and Covenants 84 say that one cannot see God without holding the priesthood?
• Question: Did Moroni tell Joseph Smith that all of the churches of the day were an "abomination"?
• Question: Did Joseph Smith change his stated motivation for praying in later years after he received the First Vision?
• First Vision accounts in Church publications
• Specific criticisms of the 1832 account of the First Vision
• Specific criticisms of the 1835 accounts of the First Vision