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| | Joseph Smith, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Smith was a polarizing figure in his time, and he continues to be a focus of controversy between his millions of followers, most of whom revere him as a prophet with the same authority as prophets in the standard Christian canon, and opponents of Mormonism, who believe he was either delusional or fraudulent. | | | Joseph Smith taught that Jesus was the Christ and the promised Messiah. | | | Smith claimed that he had a theophany when he was about fourteen years old, in which God the Father and Jesus Christ spoke to him. |
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| | Joseph Smith, Jr. - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The devout Mormon belief is that Smith was chosen by God as a "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" in the "latter days", and to restore Christ's church to a world that had fallen away in apostasy. | | | Smith claimed that in 1820, not long after the family moved to Palmyra, New York, he was visited by God, Jesus Christ and several angels at the age of fourteen. | | | Although it is believed that Emma was instrumental in forming the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (now Community of Christ), there is little evidence that she was directly involved in various proposals made to her son, Joseph Smith III to re-organize a church in the 1860s. |
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| | Fulfilled Prophecies of Joseph Smith |
| | However, the most important evidence for Joseph's divine calling as a prophet of Christ is the Book of Mormon, which is why I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | | | Joseph never claimed to be infallible, and no prophet is. He may have been surprised and frustrated by the delayed fulfillment of some prophecies, such as the establishment of Zion in Missouri, which has yet to come. | | | Joseph and the Church could have been destroyed by their persecutors. |
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http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_prophecies.shtml
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| | American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith |
| | In 1823, Joseph Smith said he was visited by an angel named Moroni, who told him of an ancient record containing God's dealings with the former inhabitants of the American continent. | | | Early one morning in the spring of 1820, Joseph went to a secluded woods to ask God which church he should join. | | | On April 6, 1830, Joseph Smith organized The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and became its first president. |
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| | Joseph Smith Biography |
| | Joseph announced new policies for the church as revelations which he had received direct from God. | | | Joseph began to plan for an earthly paradise for Mormons that would be far removed from people of other faiths. | | | Joseph taught that every person contained some divinity which could be augmented indefinitely, transforming the human into a god. |
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| | /An Introduction to Joseph Smith |
| | From this early period, Smith accepted his role as a prophet and intermediary between God and his followers and asserted that his movement had restored the true and ancient order of the original first-century apostolic church. | | | Indeed, Joseph's ability to accommodate the spiritual needs of his followers accounts for much of his success during a time of spiritual ferment and intense denominational competition. | | | Smith's interpretation of this outwardly innocent document turned Nauvoo into a sovereign enclave that modeled the complete combination of church and state. |
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| | Joseph Smith |
| | Smith, Joseph, 1805–44, American Mormon leader, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, b. | | | Joseph Smith - Religious Figure, born 23 December 1805, Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | | | Smith and others were arrested but escaped, and his faithful followers were driven from Missouri. |
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| | Joseph Smith's First Vision Accounts |
| | Joseph Smith never claimed that the religious excitement was confined to 1820. | | | In particular, Joseph wrote that there was intense religious activity in his part of upstate New York (which would include Palmyra and nearby Manchester, though he does not state which towns had the activity) preceding the time of his prayer to know which church was true. | | | They claim that the stories of angels and heavenly visitations were not "invented" until long after Joseph had written the Book of Mormon and organized a church, and that Joseph made up these accounts to give more glory to his position as a leader of the Church. |
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http://www.jefflindsay.com/LDSFAQ/FQ_first_vision.shtml
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| | Amazon.com: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism: Books: Richard L. Bushman |
| | "Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism" (1984), written by prize-winning colonial historian Richard L. Bushman, was originally conceived as one of the sixteen volumes on Mormon history officially sponsored by the Latter-day Saint church in commemoration of its sesquicentennial in 1980. | | | Smith at his word as it relates to the chronology of many of the important LDS claims. | | | He explains that while Joseph Smith did have a seerstone, such objects were not uncommon among the mixture of magic and religion that prevailed in the day. |
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| | Visions of Joseph Smith |
| | Lucy Mack Smith recalled that her son Joseph was enabled from this tutoring to describe "with much ease" the ancient inhabitants of America, "their dress, mode of traveling, and the animals upon which they rode; their cities, their buildings, with every particular; their mode of warfare; and also their religious worship" (p. | | | Celestial Kingdom, the voice of the Lord declared, "All who have died without a knowledge of this gospel, who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry, shall be heirs of the Celestial Kingdom of God" (verse 7). | | | Crucial visions received by the Prophet Joseph Smith are the source of many cardinal doctrines and teachings of the Latter-day Saints. |
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http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/daily/history/people/joseph_smith/visions_eom.htm
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| | JOSEPH SMITH |
| | Not that all the prophets among the various races of men were equally inspired; not that all came with a fulness of truth; not that all had the gospel of Jesus Christ. | | | Against the doctrine of a closed volume of Scripture, Joseph Smith asserted the existence of, and the truth of the American volume of Scripture, the Book of Mormon. | | | Joseph Smith gave to his age many of these generalized truths, more, I think than has fallen to the lot of any other teacher, save Jesus, the Christ. |
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http://www.helpingmormons.org/joseph_smith.htm
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| | Changing World Chapter 17 |
| | Joseph Smith was very proud of his position as head of the Nauvoo Legion and liked to be referred to as "Lieutenant-General Joseph Smith" (see History of the Church, vol. | | | Every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are... | | | Most Mormons believe that Joseph Smith died without putting up a struggle, but the actual truth is that he died in a gunfight. |
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| | Joseph Smith Page - Magical seer stones and secret polygamy |
| | The Freemasonry/Occultism Connection — The evidence of Joseph Smith's close connection to occultism and Freemasonry, and how this influenced the origin and development of the Mormon Church is not well known outside of scholarly circles. | | | In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith --- In this definitive new book, Mormon scholar Todd Compton offers a calmly crafted, thoroughly documented look at Joseph Smith's practice of polygamy. | | | oseph Smith's sexual involvement with girls as young as 14 has been carefully documented by contemporary Mormon historians Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery in this award-winning book. |
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| | JS-H 1 |
| | Moroni appears to Joseph Smith—Joseph’s name is to be known for good and evil among all nations—Moroni tells him of the Book of Mormon and of the coming judgments of the Lord, and quotes many scriptures—The hiding place of the gold plates is revealed—Moroni continues to instruct the Prophet. | | | Some few days after I had this vision, I happened to be in company with one of the Methodist preachers, who was very active in the before mentioned religious excitement; and, conversing with him on the subject of religion, I took occasion to give him an account of the vision which I had had. | | | Some preachers and other professors of religion reject account of First Vision—Persecution heaped upon Joseph Smith—He testifies of the reality of the vision. |
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http://scriptures.lds.org/js_h/1
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| | Utah History Encyclopedia |
| | Smith's vision concerning the redemption of the dead (1918) is one of the few twentieth-century additions to Mormon scripture (Doctrine and Covenants, Section 138). | | | Smith became church president in 1901, and with his support, Mormon Apostle Reed Smoot was elected to the U.S. Senate. | | | The Smith administration also retired church debt, acquired historic sites, constructed numerous meetinghouses, and expanded the church system of academies and universities. |
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| | Joseph Smith - Home |
| | Joseph Smith preached to two large congregations with much success. | | | Learn more about the Whitney store in Kirtland, Ohio and some of the events that took place there. | | | Daily Events in the Life of Joseph Smith |
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| | JSMAIN |
| | It was good that Joseph's son saw the need to safeguard his father's photograph with this copy so that over 150 years later we can now see what Joseph Smith really looked like. | | | Evidence suggests, the Prophet's son Joseph Smith III, submitted a photographic copy of his father's daguerreotype to the Library of Congress in 1879. | | | This photo may be all that is left of the original image, as the daguerreotype has not been found. |
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