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.
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