by Dan Wees | Nov 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
The incorrect historicity of the Book of Abraham holds more than enough evidence to dismiss it as fiction, let alone sacred verse. But, the text itself is flawed in more ways than the famous basis Mormonism gave for racism (see Abraham 1:21-28 and 3:22-26). The suffix...
by Dan Wees | Nov 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Merely on the face of it, the 1832 [First Vision] version stands a better chance of being more accurate and unembellished than the 1838 account [official] which was intended as a public statement, streamlined for publication. When Joseph dictated his 1838...
by Dan Wees | Nov 26, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“It is well known that Jo[seph] Smith[, Jr.] never pretended to have any communion with angels, until a long period after the pretended finding of his book, and that the juggling of himself or father, went no further than the pretended faculty of seeing wonders in a...
by Dan Wees | Nov 25, 2018 | Miscellaneous
George A. Smith confirms that the First Vision was attended by “the holy angel” – and not God the Father or Jesus Christ… “When Joseph Smith was about fourteen or fifteen years old [1819-20], living in the Western part of the State of New...
by Dan Wees | Nov 25, 2018 | Miscellaneous
The First Vision: Was it just Jesus, or Jesus and God the Father? Both Brigham and John Taylor (3rd Prophet of the church) taught from the pulpit that it was neither; just an angel… “[J]ust as it was when the Prophet Joseph asked the angel which of the sects was...
by Dan Wees | Nov 24, 2018 | Miscellaneous
In 1855 Brigham Young taught, “The Lord did not come” to Joseph Smith in the First Vision. Instead, he sent an angel to deliver these words attributed to Jesus Christ in the current canon: “I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were...
