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+ | |sublink1=Response to claim: 149 - Oliver Cowdery's 1834 attempt at writing a history of the Church ignored the First Vision | ||
+ | |sublink2=Response to claim: 149-150 - In 1832, 12 years after the First Vision, Joseph had a revelation that said that a man could not see God without the priesthood | ||
+ | |sublink3=Response to claim: 150 - There were no references to the First Vision in the 1830s | ||
+ | |sublink4=Response to claim: 152 - Joseph's 1832 account mentions that he was in the 16th year of his age rather than the 15th | ||
+ | |sublink5=Response to claim: 154 - The 1832 account only mentions one personage | ||
+ | |sublink6=Response to claim: 156 - The personages in the 1835 version are not explicitly identified as God the Father and Jesus Christ | ||
+ | |sublink7=Response to claim: 157 - The 1835 account talks about a visitation of angels instead of the Father and Son | ||
+ | |sublink8=Response to claim: 159 - Joseph's claim of seeing the Father and the Son was not unique | ||
+ | |sublink9=Response to claim: 160 - Oliver Cowdery's 1834 history in the Messenger and Advocate did not mention the First Vision | ||
+ | |sublink10=Response to claim: 162 - "Mormon apologists are beginning to retreat from the idea that God the Father appeared to Joseph Smith" | ||
+ | |sublink11=Response to claim: 162-163 - The Book of Mormon teaches that there is only one God | ||
+ | |sublink12=Response to claim: 164 - Brigham Young denied that the Lord came to Joseph Smith in the First Vision | ||
+ | |sublink13=Response to claim: 164 - John Taylor claimed that an angel appeared during the First Vision | ||
+ | |sublink14=Response to claim: 164 - George A. Smith claimed that an angel appeared during the First Vision | ||
+ | |sublink15=Response to claim: 166-171 - There was no revival in the area where Joseph Smith lived in 1820 | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of: Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism A work by author: Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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