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Joseph Smith, Jr. wiki articles

• Did Joseph boast of keeping the Church intact?
• Healings and miracles?
• Holy Ghost, Joseph Smith is the
• Kinderhook Plates
• King of the world, anointed
• Martyr?
  • Martyrdom in Christian history
• Masonic cry of distress
• Money digging/treasure seeking
• Moonmen
• Occult activities or "magick"?
• Personal failings
• Political activities
• Seer stones, use of
• Status in LDS belief

Joseph Smith and legal issues wiki articles

• D&C 98 teaches Saints to disobey secular law?
• Joseph Smith and legal trials
  • 1826 trial
• Kirtland Safety Society
  • False charges against Warren Parrish?
  • Money boxes filled with sand?
  • Notes from KSS to be "as good as gold"?
• Nauvoo city charter
  • Habeas corpus
  • Usurpation of power?
• Nauvoo Expositor
  • Nauvoo Expositor Full Text

Prophecy wiki articles

• Joseph Smith prophecies
  • Can't kill Joseph within 5 years of August 1843?
  • Civil War prophecy
    • Alexander Doniphan and destruction in Missouri
    • Attitude of Saints to Civil War prophecy
  • David Patten to serve a mission?
  • Forged prophecy about Saints in Rocky Mountains?
    • Tanners' use of sources
  • Government to be overthrown and wasted
  • Independence temple to be built "in this generation"
  • Joseph and Orson Hyde to drink of wine in Palestine?
  • Notes from Kirtland Safety Society to be "as good as gold"?
  • Prophetic test in Deuteronomy
  • Queens to pay respect to Relief Society within ten years?
  • Second Coming in 1890 (56 years)
  • Stephen A. Douglas prophecy
  • Ten tribes return and wicked swept away?
  • Thomas B. Marsh to be "exalted"
  • United Order everlasting, immutable, and unchangeable?
  • Zion redeemed by September 1836?
• Official doctrine: what is it?

Post-Joseph Smith and non-Joseph Smith prophecies

• Joseph Smith, Sr.
  • Joseph Smith, Jr., to continue in the priest's office until Christ comes
• Oliver Cowdery
  • Orson Hyde ordination blessing
  • Orson Hyde ordination blessing: altered in History of the Church?
  • Lyman Johnson to live until gathering accomplished
  • William Smith to remain on the earth until Christ comes
• Martin Harris
  • Heber C. Kimball - stand until the coming of the Lord
• David Whitmer
  • Brigham Young ordination blessing
• Revelation after Joseph Smith
  • Heber C. Kimball–"dead yellow dog"
  • John Taylor 1886 revelation
  • Joseph F. Smith on revelation at Smoot hearings
  • Missouri myths?
  • Return to Jackson County, Missouri?
  • Walk back to Missouri?
  • Wilford Woodruff's 1889 revelation
• Other related issues and claims
  • LDS prophets don't prophesy?
  • Prophetic inerrancy?
  • When the Prophet speaks, the thinking is done? (non-wiki)

First Vision wiki articles

Overview

• Summary article

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Leading up to the vision:

• Methodist camp meetings in 1820
• Religious revivals in 1820
• Place of residence in 1820

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The vision:

• First Vision accounts (summary)
  • 1832 account (overview)
    • Early understanding of God?
    • No new dispensation?
    • Different age?
    • Different motivation?
    • No persecution?
    • No revival?
    • Not forbidden to convert?
    • Wicked destroyed?
    • Only one Deity?
    • In heaven or earth?
    • Unconditional salvation?
    • Struggle with Satan?
  • 1835 account (overview)
    • Personages were angels?
  • 1838 account (overview)
    • 1820 Revival?
    • "It commenced with the Methodists"
• Paul's accounts of his vision
  • Scholars solved discrepancies?
• Can't see God without priesthood?

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After the vision:

• No reference in 1830s publications?
• Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877?
• No reference in non-LDS publications before 1843?
• Joseph saw "God" in 1830 publication?
• No published references to Father and Son until 1838?
• Joseph unsure of God in 1823?
• Lucy joined Presbyterians in 1823?
• Joined other churches?
• All churches wrong?
• Fabricated to bolster authority?
• Details added over time?
• Created to offset leadership crisis?

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Others' accounts:

• George Q. Cannon
• Cowdery version of 1834-5?
• Orson Hyde
• Andrew Jenson
• Heber C. Kimball|
• Orson Pratt
• George A. Smith
• Lucy Mack Smith
• Orson Spencer
• John Taylor
• Brigham never spoke of 1st vision?
• Brigham claimed an angel?
• Seldom published pre-1877 (short)
  • (long)

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Other criticisms:

• D&C 121:28 contradicts vision?
• Father: Spirit vs. Embodied
• Personages seen by Joseph

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Joseph Smith other visionary issues wiki articles

Moroni's visit:

• Moroni's visit (summary)
  • Nephi or Moroni in 1823?
  • A "spirit" visited Joseph in 1827?
  • Moroni as an "angel of Satan"
• Joseph Smith's early conception of God
• Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith
• Swedenborg and three degrees of glory

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God wiki articles

• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Corporeality of God
  • God is "not a man"?
  • Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven?
  • Lectures on Faith teaches the Father is "a personage of spirit"?
• Creatio ex nihilo / Creation out of nothing
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
  • Creation of spirits
    • Spirit children created by sexual union?
• Dallin H. Oaks on God as seen by LDS and other Christians
• Elohim and Jehovah
  • Downplaying the King Follett discourse by President Hinckley?
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Does Elohim have a father God above him?
• Foreknowledge of God
• God is a Spirit
  • Book of Mormon says God is a spirit?
• Godhead and the Trinity and Nicene creed
  • Sabellianism/modalism in the Book of Mormon?
• Heavenly Mother?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
• Infinite regress of Gods?
• Kolob
• "No God beside me" - (includes Isaiah 43-46 issues)
• No man has seen God
• Polytheism - Are Mormons polytheists?
• Spirit bodies for humans and 1 Cor 15
  • Early Christians on literal resurrection
• Theosis or human deification
  • Do Mormons believe they will be "gods of their own planets"?
  • Latter-day Saints believe in Celestial Sex?
  • Primary sources/Theosis
• Unchanging Nature of God