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“Indeed, all who want
to live a godly life united with the Messiah Yeshua will be persecuted.” (2Tim 3:12)
It is what you actually believe that determines how you walk out your faith,
“but avoid stupid controversies, genealogies,
quarrels and fights about the Torah; because they are worthless and
futile.” (Titus 3:9)
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than my own. Even though I may absolutely and totally disagree with your opinion, I will
defend to the death your God-given right to hold it. Since this website was
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Joseph Smith’s Handwritten First Vision
(Demonstrating just two of the hundreds of changes
that have been made to the Mormon “scriptures”)
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Scanned Document in Joseph Smith’s own handwriting |
Current version in The Pearl of Great Price |
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“marvilous even in the likeness of him
who created |
Scanned image from: History, 1832, Joseph Smith Letterbook 1, p.3 Handwriting of Joseph Smith. Click picture for a larger view. |
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(in the
16th year of my age) a piller of
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“I was at this time in my fifteenth year.” PGP, JS-H 1:7 |
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the spirit of God and the (Lord)
opened the heavens upon me and I saw the Lord and he
spake unto me saying Joseph (my son) thy sins are forgiven
thee. go thy (way) walk in my statutes and keep my
commandments behold I am the Lord of glory I was crucifyed
for the world that all those who believe on my name may have
Eternal life (behold) the world lieth in sin
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“I saw two Personages … standing above me in the air. PGP, JS-H 1:17 The message conveyed by the two “personages” is totally different than the handwritten version. See PGP, JS-H 1:17-19 |
Another Version of the “First Vision”
Joseph Smith’s First Vision
Mirrored from
http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,104-1-3-4,00.html
In accordance with this, my determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet made the attempt to pray vocally.
After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to destruction.
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“I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head…” |
One of them … said, pointing to the other— “This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!” |
It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—“This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!”
My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)—and which I should join.
I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.”
He again forbade me to join with any of them; and many other things did he say unto me, which I cannot write at this time. When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back, looking up into heaven. When the light had departed, I had no strength; but soon recovering in some degree, I went home.
Read the First Vision article by Sandra Tanner
ANXIOUSLY WATCHING FOR MASHIACH’S RETURN,
SPEEDILY AND IN OUR DAY. MARANA, TA!
