![visions of glory exmormon visions of glory exmormon](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/147c8028-16ed-452d-b13b-544ebc0d6e25.aaeb7a9d1d48e39d66497732ad4d09c7.jpeg)
In the first one, Smith relates what he told “Joshua the Jewish Minister” (an alias for ‘Matthias the Prophet’ who was actually from another cult). In 1835, within a week, Smith attempted two further First Vision accounts. In this account, Smith is not tormented by an evil force he is filled with the spirit of God and has his sins forgiven, consistent with published stories of other young people who had claimed similar experiences. The location, later represented as a grove of trees, is not mentioned and there is no mention of any revival. Smith’s own claim never appeared anywhere at the supposed time in 1820, or when he wrote this in 1832.
![visions of glory exmormon visions of glory exmormon](https://img.yumpu.com/26899088/1/500x640/mormon-experience-scholarship-issues-amp-art-sunstone-magazine.jpg)
A number of accounts were published which Joseph Smith had ready access to. It is also interesting to note that this account is very similar to reported experiences of several other young men of the time who, seeking forgiveness of sins also claimed to have seen the Lord. Within the pillar of light – originally written as ‘fire’, which Smith crossed out – the Lord, assumed to be Jesus Christ, appeared aloneĪnd addressed Smith as his son. In the later official version, he was only fourteen. Smith’s 1832 account goes on to state that he was in his sixteenth year of age. In it, Smith declares that between the ages of twelve and fifteen he became exceedingly distressed concerning the situation of the world and of his own sins, and concluded that mankind had: “apostatised from the true and living faith and there was no society or denomination that built upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.” This is an astonishing conclusion for Smith to have written down in his own hand in 1832 as it completely contradicts the official version (written in 1838 and first published in 1842) wherein Smith claims that he went to the grove “to know which of the sects was right” and that “at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong.” We now know this was not the case from Smith’s personally handwritten claim of 1832.
![visions of glory exmormon visions of glory exmormon](https://ldsbookstore.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/products/Books/DBD/DBD-5244177-THUMB.jpg)
Williams and partly (including this version of events) in Smith’s very own handwriting. Smith’s record, dated in 1832, appears within the work A History of the life of Joseph Smith, partly written by his then scribe, Frederick G. Regarding Smith’s original claim of a First Vision he first considered the concept in 1832. However, it will be discovered that this was not the case at all. This was a complete surprise to me as Joseph Smith claimed he told anyone and everyone who would listen all about it immediately following the event. The first thing to understand is that Joseph Smith did not record the ‘official version’ of his ‘First Vision’, as now used by the Mormon Church, until the year 1838, and it wasn’t even published until 1842, some twenty-two years after The following evidence should fully answer that question. So… what really did happen, and what evidence is there to prove the real sequence of events which led to Smith’s claim? Only that will determine the truth. Compare the way the Church presents its case with the facts contained in the article below. Make of the essay what you will, the conspiracy to deceive continues unabated. It is this kind of continuing manipulation of the truth that the Church relies on to keep members in the dark whilst pretending to finally come clean about lies and deceptions of the past. Smith didn't invent the 'God and Jesus appearing together' idea until much later – in 1838. They neglect to say that it ONLY notes angels, and that no forms of deity are mentioned as appearing at all. The carefully worded essay deliberately manipulates and even omits some vital facts - such as in the second version, by saying: “This account also notes the appearance of angels in the vision” leading people to assume that this is in addition to God and Jesus appearing, as members are so familiar with the later backdated story. Backdated eighteen years, it is the official version that the Church promotes today. The ‘God and Jesus, appearing as two separate beings’ account first appeared in 1838. However, the only accounts Smith ever wrote or dictated were during 1832, 18 - and they are all very different. The vision is claimed to have occurred in 1820. In late 2013, the Mormon Church published an essay, finally accepting and acknowledging the fact that there were multiple (and conflicting) first vision accounts recorded by Joseph Smith over a number of years.