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Back to Search009 If Not a Supernatural Translation, Then What? Examining the Other BM Translation Theories
Episode 9
What would you say if somebody told you that a 23 year old farm boy dictated to a scribe a sacred text of 531 pages while looking down at stones placed in the bottom of his hat? And what would you th…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
008 Translating the Book of Mormon with Stones in a Hat?
Episode 8
If we had video footage of the translation process of the Book of Mormon, what would we see? What would we actually watch Joseph Smith “do” during a translation session? Now of course we don’t have v…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
007 Joseph Smith’s Creative Efforts to Outsource the Book of Mormon Translation
Episode 7
After four years of waiting, learning, and personal refinement, 21 year old Joseph Smith was finally entrusted by the angel Moroni with the ancient record that for centuries had lain in waiting in a …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
006 Joseph Smith’s ”Second Vision” and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
Episode 6
About three and a half years after his “first vision,” Joseph Smith experienced his “second vision.” It occurred on the evening of the 21st of September 1823 in Palmyra, New York, when Joseph was onl…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
005 Q&R! What About Others Who Claimed Similar Visions in Joseph Smith’s Day? Etc.
Season 1 Episode 5
The more carefully one studies Joseph Smith’s First Vision and the context of his world at that time, the more interesting the questions become. For example, if Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Je…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
004 How Do 2nd and 3rd Hand Accounts Add to Our Understanding of the First Vision?
Episode 4
Thousands of people heard Joseph Smith’s testimony first hand. Some of those testimonies included him telling about his First Vision experience. Some of those people who heard his witness wrote down …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
003 How Did Orson Pratt Influence Joseph Smith’s 1842 First Vision Narrative?
Episode 3
Did you know that the first time the story of Joseph Smith’s First Vision was ever printed was in a pamphlet written by apostle Orson Pratt and published in Scotland while Pratt was on a mission ther…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
002 What’s Unique About Joseph Smith’s 1835 and 1838 Accounts of His First Vision?
Episode 2
In 1835, Joseph Smith shared his second recorded account of his First Vision with an eccentric visitor to Kirtland, Ohio who claimed to be a Jewish minister. How did this fact that Joseph believed he…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
001 Why Are There Different Accounts of the First Vision?
Episode 1
Joseph Smith’s First Vision is foundational to our narrative of the Restoration today, but it was not always so from the Church’s beginning. So how did the First Vision go from what began as a very …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago