...ow and the 1835 historical recounting below both qualify as 'contemporary' accounts.
...and reminiscent accounts that confirm Joseph Smith taught between 1831 and 1837 that the Father and Son (two personages) were present during his inaugural
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...Did Joseph Fielding Smith remove the 1832 account of Joseph Smith's First Vision from its original letterbook and hide it in his safe?==
...me was rebound, including binding the formerly loose index of letters. The first gathering, which contains the history, was slightly trimmed in connection w
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...the Accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision|The Church's Treatment of the Accounts]] | <span style="color:#7BB375">Joseph F. Smith</span></small>
...e that Joseph F. Smith suppressed the 1832 account of Joseph Smith's First Vision.
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* Messages of the First Presidency [James R. Clark, editor]
...gospelink.com/library/contents/346 Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph] (edited by Lyndon W. Cook,
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|L=Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/First Vision
{{DVDHeadingBox|Joseph Smith's Character: The First Vision}}
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...lation for which we have documentary evidence is in the late 1820s. So the first thing he starts writing is scripture.
*'''Question: Do contemporary accounts mention angelic visitors?<br>Answer: Yes.'''<br> Some of the earliest docum
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...to "For my Wife and Children" ("Letter to my Wife"): Chapter 1 - The First Vision
[[File:Chart LTMW first vision.png|center|frame]]
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[[File:Chart CES Letter first vision.png|center|frame]]
...eph Smith"|Response to claim: "There are at least 4 different First Vision accounts by Joseph Smith"]] (from Letter to a CES Director: Why I Lost My Testimony,
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...n can see the Father and live. Since Joseph beheld the Father in the First Vision, it was necessary for him to have this higher priesthood even before the ap
...pre-mortal ordination to priesthood which allowed him to survive the First Vision (“The Divine Authority of the Holy Priesthood, Etc.,” Journal of Discourses
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|L=Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/The First Vision
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...7 (HB) - Joseph Smith claimed that the Three Witnesses saw the plates in a vision
{{:Question: Are there any eyewitness accounts of the events that resulted in the trip to Canada to sell the Book of Mormo
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...] of the [[Book of Mormon|Book of Mormon's]] [[golden plates]], one of the first [[Latter Day Saint]] [[Apostle (Latter Day Saints)|apostles]], and the [[As
...been a follower of man who used divining rods. Why else would this be the first "fact" listed after Oliver's birth date and place?
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...the Book of Mormon, in 2006 shortly after the irrefutable DNA results were first published by the scientific community"
...esponse to claim: Joseph Smith's "arrest on similar charges in 1830 and in 1837 for plotting the murder of Garrison Newell, and eight times in 1838, seven
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...ionary experience. Why would people need to see real, physical plates in a vision or a real angel that was physically on the earth?
...ies came through Dr. Phiastus Hurlbut, and that they were published in the first true anti-Mormon work, ''Mormonism Unvailed'', by Eber D. Howe? Why not men
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...encounter quite a contrast from those things that we learn in church. The first thing that we learn about Martin is that he “was a prosperous farmer,” and
'''Martin Harris''' (May 18, 1783 – July 10, 1875) underwrote the first printing of [[The Book of Mormon]] and also served as one of [[Three Witnes
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| KIRTLAND, OHIO, AUGUST, 1837.
...who are respectable in point of both learning and talents, and some of the first order.
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| KIRTLAND, OHIO, SEPTEMBER, 1837.
''Kirtland, Sept.'' 18,1837.
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|L2=Response to claim: "when the BOM was first published, he tried to sell the copyright to the BOM to a publishing compan
|L3=Response to claim: "the first edition of the BOM has on its title page the author listed as Joseph Smith"
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...o claim: 1 - The author claims that Louisa Beaman "was about to become the first plural wife of Joseph Smith"
...at Smith might have engaged in the practice prior to this, but this is the first documented marriage"
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...arent in the Book of Mormon, and in the earliest friendly and non-friendly accounts of such matters from the Saints.
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