Learn about the historic event when God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith in 1820 and restored His gospel to the earth. Explore accounts, videos, art, and resources from the Church's official site. Joseph Smith's First Vision Joseph Smith's announcement that he saw the Father and the Son in 1820 has produced a broad response, from faithful to critical.
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This set of articles addresses the multiple accounts of the First Vision, the events leading to and occurring after the vision, and a review of the doctrinal developments from the vision. First Vision Concerns & Questions Our whole strength rests on the validity of that [first] vision. It either occurred or it did not occur.
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If it did not, then this work is a fraud. If it did, then it is the most important and wonderful work under the heavens. - President Gordon B.
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Hinckley, The Marvelous Foundation of our Faith Four Different. LDS teaching is, in the words of Stephen L. Richards (a former councilor in the First Presidency), "steeped in the verity of the First Vision." It undergirds the doctrine of an anthropomorphic God and theomorphic man, of the relationships of the persons of the Godhead, and of continual revelation.
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First Vision The First Vision is the name given to the seminal event in the Restoration-the visitation of God, the Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith in the Spring of 1820. The event is recognized and revered by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (erroneously called Mormons) around the world. The First Vision See MormonThink's response to the Church's First Vision essay.
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The First Vision is the foundational event of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ, occurring in the spring of 1820, when Joseph Smith was a teen. At the time, religious revivals were occurring in the area, and Joseph could not tell which church was true. While reading in the Bible, young Joseph was.
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One of the new entries in the Topics and Questions section of the Gospel Library is the entry Multiple Accounts of the First Vision. In the spring of 1820, God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith as he prayed in a grove of trees near his home in western New York. This.
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A look at Joseph Smith's multiple First Vision accounts along with the problems and apologetic responses regarding the Mormon church's claims about this miraculous event. We review the 1832, 1825, 1838, and 1842 versions and address the contradictions and official LDS essay. In the LDS church I heard about the First Vision on many occasions and came to understand the significance of that event.
It was a parting of the heavens and. Joseph Smith's various accounts of the First Vision provide a window into his evolving theology, particularly regarding the nature of the Godhead. The changes in each version, when looked at as a narrative through a lens to understand the thinking of church leadership at the time, show ideas developing and how these changing ideas were.