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'''Summary:''' Joseph Smith's First Vision has attracted many critics of the Church. Click the links below to find faithful answers to all criticisms of Joseph Smith's First Vision.
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*[[Introduction to the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision]]
|S=Joseph Smith's claim that he saw the Father and the Son in 1820 has produced a wide variety of criticism. This set of articles addresses the various critical claims related to the First Vision. The linked articles below are designed to help readers to see some of the weaknesses that are found in arguments that are made against Joseph Smith's First Vision accounts. Some of these arguments are currently being advocated in anti-Mormon literature that is handed out near the Sacred Grove in Palmyra, New York.
*[[Alleged Contradictions in the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision]]
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*[[Alleged Embellishments in the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision]]
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*[[Historical Challenges to the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision]]
|sublink3=Criticisms of events occurring after the First Vision
*[[Alleged Theological and Scriptural Problems with Joseph Smith's First Vision]]
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*[[Joseph Smith's First Vision and Latter-day Saint Relations with Other Christians]]
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*[[The Church's Treatment of the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision]]
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*[[FAIR Resources on the First Vision]]
{{Epigraph|God touched his eyes with his finger and said “[Joseph] this is my beloved Son hear him.” As soon as the Lord had touched his eyes with his finger he immediately saw the Savior. After meeting, a few of us questioned him about the matter and he told us at the bottom of the meeting house steps that he was in the House of Father Smith in Kirtland when Joseph made this declaration, and that Joseph while speaking of it put his finger to his right eye, suiting the action with the words so as to illustrate and at the same time impress the [occurrence] on the minds of those unto whom He was speaking.<br><br>&mdash;''Diary of Charles Lowell Walker'' (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1980), 2:755–56 [recorded 2 February 1893]}}
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*[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152502187077973 "Reported accounts of the First Vision" (Video)], ''The Joseph Smith Papers''.
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