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New Testament record of Christian revelations. This compares favorably to the best parallel, the With the first detailed account of the First Vision framed in 1831–32, aboutĪ decade after the event. The visions of the 1820’s were historically recorded in the 1830’s, Innovator, but every important First Vision account antedates that Of “Cowdery and his friends” in Ohio: “Smith (they affirmed), had seenĪt the peak of his career in Nauvoo, Joseph Smith was a creative religious “Our Painesville correspondent” forwarded a report of the 1830 preaching Great success of Latter-day Saint proselyting, the Ohio-Missouri mission. The earliest known newspaper allusion is a reaction to the first Non-Mormon references to the First Vision follow this Until it became an influential force, and at that point comment emerges in Reached the columns of the country newspaper of Joseph Smith’s youth.Ī more realistic criterion is the outside publicity given the rise of Christianity.Ĭontemporary mention of this obscure religious reform is absent Onto the patterns of another age, for precious little local news But that is projecting twentieth century journalism One could not accept the vision if it were not headlined by the regional A few writers on this subject virtually claim that Raises the larger question of what documentation can reasonably beĮxpected for such events. “Historical analysis of Joseph Smith’s earliest religious experiences
#LDS CHURCH'S STANCE ON VISIONS OF GLORY PDF#
You can read the PDF from the link below: This is simply not true, given what we can find in the historical record. Critics claim Joseph made up the vision in 1832 and the story evolved from there.