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|link=Question: What differences are there between Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account and later accounts? | |||
|subject=Specific criticisms of the 1832 account of the First Vision | |||
|summary=Articles that address specific criticisms of the 1832 account of Joseph Smith's First Vision | |||
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|link=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Accounts/1835 | |||
|subject=Specific criticisms of the 1835 accounts of the First Vision | |||
|summary=Articles that address specific criticisms of the 1835 accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision | |||
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|link=http://www.fairmormon.org/fair-conferences/2011-fair-conference/2011-four-accounts-and-three-critiques-of-joseph-smiths-first-vision | |||
|author=Steven C. Harper | |||
|authorlink=http://www.fairmormon.org/perspectives/authors/harper-steven | |||
|title=Four Accounts and Three Critiques of Joseph Smith’s First Vision | |||
|publication=Proceedings of the 2011 FAIR Conference | |||
|date=August 2011 | |||
|summary=There are essentially three arguments against the first vision. The minister to whom Joseph reported the event announced that there were no such things these days. More than a century later Fawn Brodie wrote with literary grace to mask historical deficiencies that Joseph concocted the vision years after he said it happened. Then a generation later Wesley Walters charged Joseph with inventing revivalism when a lack of historical evidence proved that there was none, and therefore no subsequent vision as a result. So by now it has become a foregone conclusion for some there are no such things as visions, and Joseph failed to mention his experience for years and then gave conflicting accounts that didn’t match historical facts. | |||
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