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| | Joseph Smith, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Smith's followers revere him as the first latter-day prophet, called by God to restore the pure gospel of Jesus Christ to the earth, bring forth the Book of Mormon, restore priesthood authority[1], build temples[2], and form a nucleus for the Kingdom of God on Earth (Zion)[3]. | | | 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. |
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| | Gospel Link |
| | Joseph Smith´s role in history was to found the Church of Jesus Christ based on this restored gospel in preparation for the second coming of Christ. | | | Joseph Smith never claimed to establish a new religion but to initiate a new beginning, a restoration of the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ. | | | Joseph Smith arrived with his family at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri, in March 1838, where he sought once again to establish a gathering place for the Saints and to build a temple (see Missouri: LDS Communities in Caldwell and Daviess Counties). |
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| | Utah History Encyclopedia |
| | Joseph Smith was revered by his followers as a divinely inspired religious leader and prophet. | | | Joseph Smith, Jr., born in Sharon, Vermont, on 23 December 1805, was the founding prophet and first president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | | | After the death of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and others with faith in his vision presided over the completion of the Nauvoo LDS Temple, the "endowing" of Latter-day Saints therein, and the subsequent trek of the Mormon pioneers to Utah, where the "gathering" and temple-building continued. |
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http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/s/SMITH,JOSEPHJR.html
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| | GS Smith, Joseph, Jr. |
| | Joseph Smith was ordained an Apostle of Jesus Christ and first elder of this Church, D&C 20: 2. | | | In 1820, God the Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph, and he learned that none of the churches on the earth was true (JS-H 1: 1-20). | | | Scripture brought forth by the Prophet Joseph Smith: Joseph translated portions of the gold plates that were given him by the angel Moroni, which translation was published in 1830 as the Book of Mormon. |
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| | Joseph Smith Jr. |
| | Joseph Smith (1805-44) was the founder of the Mormon faith. | | | Joseph Smith's writings are extensive, and consist chiefly of works considered scripture by Latter-day Saints: his translation of The Book of Mormon, and the revelations he received, collected in the Doctrine and Covenants and The Pearl of Great Price, the latter of which contains his personal account of his first vision. | | | It should be noted that Joseph Smith has been the subject of a great range of Mormon literature. |
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http://humanities.byu.edu/mldb/Who/B-SMITHJ.HTM
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| | The gun belonging to Joseph Smith Jr Nauvoo Mormon |
| | Joseph Smith III and Heman C. Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, (Lamoni, Ia.: Published by the Board of Publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1897-1903). | | | This gun belonging to Joseph Smith was preserved by his son Alexander Hale Smith, who carried on seven missions from the Midwest to Utah while a member of the Quorum of Twelve in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. | | | This hunting rifle was used by Joseph Smith, the founder and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. |
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http://www.mormonism.com/Gun.htm
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| | Mormonism |
| | Joseph claimed that during this translation process, John the Baptist appeared to him and ordained him to accomplish the divine work of restoring the true church by preaching the true gospel which, allegedly, had been lost from the earth. | | | The 8th article of faith from the Mormon Church states, "We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly." The interesting thing is that Joseph Smith allegedly corrected the Bible in what is called The Inspired Version, though it is not used by the LDS church. | | | In 1820, when he was 14, he went into the woods to pray concerning this and allegedly God the Father and Jesus appeared to him and told him not to join any of the denominational churches. |
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| | Doubleday Books The Book of Mormon by Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. |
| | Joseph Smith, Jr., is the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is regarded as a divine prophet and the translator of The Book of Mormon, having been given the divine gift of interpretation after he was led to the golden plates on which the book was written. | | | According to Mormon belief, The Book of Mormon was inscribed on golden plates by generations of prophets, quoted and abridged by the prophet-historian Mormon, and buried in the ground by Mormon& son, Moroni. | | | For the twelve million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints worldwide (six million in the United States), The Book of Mormon is literally the word of God, a companion volume to the Bible that contains the everlasting gospel. |
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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 Jr. |
| | Joseph Smith is the head of this dispensation, the dispensation of the fulness of times, and was sent here to restore the fulness of the gospel, to build up the Kingdom of God and to establish Zion; as were other dispensation heads before him. | | | Like Christ, Joseph Smith, Jr., will come to a remnant of the fallen church (which church has rejected Him and His true gospel), as a resurrected man to complete the work he was sent here to perform. | | | Joseph Smith junior, will again be on this earth dictating plans and calling forth his brethren to be baptized for the very characters who wish this was not so, in order to bring them into a kingdom. |
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http://www.helpingmormons.org/TLC_Manti/PamphletsFolder/JosephSmithJr.htm
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| | Joseph Smith, Jr. |
| | Smith, said "Nevertheless, he that repents and does the commandments of the Lord shall be forgiven," Doc. | | | Smith killed at least two before he was shot to death (History of the Church, Vol. | | | Claims he saw God the Father (Joseph Smith 2:17). |
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http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/mormons.htm
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| | Restoration Bookstore -- Joseph Smith, Jr. |
| | But in 1830 when Joseph Smith advanced his prophetic claims, there was not a single church in Christendom that claimed to have a prophet or to believe in a modern, contemporary prophetic ministry. | | | In a day when there was scarcely a church or a Christian who believed in the literal, physical, and imminent second coming of Christ, Joseph Smith affirmed this doctrine and was told by his critics that the second coming would be only spiritual. | | | So, although we say and believe that Joseph Smith was a great and good man, we say further that even though you may not believe so, that he is to be judged after all by the fruits of his prophetic mission. |
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http://restorationbookstore.org/prints/joseph.htm
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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. | | | According to his account, while praying Joseph was visited by two "personages" who identified themselves as God the Father and Jesus Christ. |
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http://www.pbs.org/americanprophet/joseph-smith.html
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| | THE FALSE PROPHECIES OF JOSEPH SMITH JR |
| | Joseph Smith was also interested in the second coming of Jesus Christ. | | | Joseph looked into the hat in which he placed the stone, and received a revelation that some of the brethren should go to Toronto, Canada, and that they would sell the copyright of the Book of Mormon. | | | The stone to which Whitmer refers is the “seer stone” by which Smith arrived at many of his revelations, and which he used to help him “translate” the Book of Mormon. |
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http://www.contenderministries.org/mormonism/falseprophet.php
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| | Joseph Smith's various First Vision accounts |
| | The conversation soon turned upon the subject of Religion, and after the subject of this narrative had made some remarks concerning the bible, he commenced giving him a relation of the circumstances, connected with the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, which were nearly as follows. | | | Smith then asked, must I join the Methodist Church. | | | Note that this new (and now official) account reflects Joseph Smith's new ideas (not his 1834, 1830, or pre-1830 ideas) about the Godhead. |
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| | Joseph Smith, Jr. |
| | Either Joseph Smith understood as a teenager more about the scriptures than those who quote these Bible verses, or he was called by revelation from God to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. | | | Joseph Smith was called by an angel from heaven. | | | Two scripture verses from the Bible are sometimes quoted by those who believe Joseph Smith was a false prophet, Galatians 1:8-9 and Revelations 22:19. |
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| | Joseph Smith Jr. |
| | Joseph use to sit with his family and tell them tells about the life and times of the ancient Americans. | | | And it is totally scripturally bases and it is from the mouth of Joseph Smith, yet they will not belief nor accept even this firt 'line of precept' upon the matter. | | | God and Jesus Christ made their first appearance to the Prophet Joseph Smith in the Sacred Grove of this very Land of Cumorah. |
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http://www.xmission.com/~hunter/jsmith.htm
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| | The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith Jr. |
| | In his personal diaries Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, emerges as a believable and human religious leader, willing to allow both descendants and followers a complete look at his innovative beliefs and complex personality. | | | Occasionally short-tempered, Smith once told detractors to "hide their heads in a hollow pumpkin and never take it out." He could lose patience with people who left meetings before the benediction and with young men who sneaked onto the women's side of the congregation. | | | Published for the first time in their entirety, the personal diaries of Mormon founder Joseph Smith (1805-44) provide an unequaled view of this controversial American religious leader. |
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| | deseretnews.com Remembering Joseph Smith Jr. |
| | • "Joseph Smith and the Prophetic Tradition," a conference examining the place of Joseph Smith in the "the larger arena of prophets and the prophetic word across various religious traditions," will be held Oct. 21-22 at Clarmont University in Claremont, Calif. | | | If you see him — and many historians and scholars do — as "an authentic religious genius" and "a towering religious figure," he still must be classed as one of the most charismatic leaders and significant religious personages of 19th century America. | | | If you see him — as the approximately 12 million worldwide members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do — as a prophet, seer, revelator, church founder and translator of the Book of Mormon, you consider him one of the most beloved and important figures in history. |
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600122659,00.html
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| | MORMON ORIGINS - JOSEPH SMITH - EARLY LDS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS - MORMONISM |
| | Joseph, my son, I lay my hands upon thy head in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to confirm upon thee a father's blessing. | | | A marvelous work and a wonder has the Lord wrought by thy hand, even that which shall prepare the way for the remnants of his people to come in among the Gentiles, with their fulness, as the tribes of Israel are restored. | | | I bless thee with the blessings of thy fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and even the blessings of thy father Joseph, the son of Jacob. |
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| | First Vision Account - 1832 in Joseph Smith, jr.'s own handwriting. |
| | Many aspects of this account parallel other visionary accounts published by young men who, under conviction of sins, claimed to have a supernatural encounter with Jesus Christ in which they were assured of forgiveness. | | | Smith started serious study of the scriptures at age 12 | | | Many aspects of this account parallel other visionary accounts published by young men who, under conviction of sins, claimed to have a supernatural encounter with Jesus Christ... |
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http://www.irr.org/mit/First-Vision-Scans/first-vision-1832.html
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| | The Prophet Joseph Smith, Jun., General Authority |
| | And ultimately, he would seal his testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ when his life's blood was shed by a godless mob of blasphemous murderers. | | | With the visitation from our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, Joseph's life was changed forever. | | | He would be the instrument through which Jesus Christ would restore His Church. |
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http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/w/o/wol3/smithj2.htm
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| | Joseph Smith, Jr. - Wikiquote |
| | Smith's comments about Sidney Rigdon's feebleness after the closing of a vision which they both beheld and Smith dictated into Section 76 of the Doctrine and Covenants. | | | Refering to the Bible (this old book) durring a public sermon to thousands of residents in Nauvoo at the funeral for King Follett about two months before Smith's murder by a mob. | | | I have got the oldest book in the world; but I have got the oldest book in my heart, even the gift of the Holy Ghost. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr.
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| | Joseph Smith Jr. Family Organization - About Us |
| | The prophet Joseph was told in a revelation given in 1841: | | | Now, in later years, the prophet's prayer takes on a far-reaching aspect, as we realize that his own family has become divided by many factors, with fear and prejudice sometimes preventing our being unified in this generation, even in bonds of family relationship. | | | "And as I said unto Abraham concerning the kindred’s of the earth, even so I say unto my servant Joseph: In thee and in thy seed shall the kindred of the earth be blessed." |
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http://www.josephsmithjr.com/about.htm
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| | Appeals, to, supreme, Court, of, Missouri, 1839, Joseph Smith, Jr., Hyrum Smith, Lyman Wight, Caleb Baldwin, General ... |
| | Kimball, William Huntington, Joseph B. Noble, and Hyrum Smith, who being duly sworn, do depose and say, that the matters and things set forth in the foregoing petition, upon their own knowledge are true in substance and in fact, and so far as set forth upon the information of others they believe to be true. | | | Your petitioner states that one term of court has passed by since your petitioner has been deprived of his liberty, yet no charge has been preferred against him. | | | JOSEPH B. Sworn and subscribed to, this fifteenth day of March, 1839, before me. |
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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. | | | Much excitement has come from the comparative studies of this image and a death mask made of the Prophet just after his death. |
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http://www.comevisit.com/lds/js3photo.htm
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| | Joseph Smith, Jr., Collection |
| | Included are Daniel Bachman's thesis on Mormon polygamy; Smith correspondence; a genealogy of Smith's plural wives; reports on the life of Michael H. Chandler, who was said to have sold Egyptian papyri to Smith; microfilmed LDS Church records; and other miscellaneous items. | | | One item, "The Presidential Election Campaign of 1844 and the Role of Joseph Smith as Candidate," prepared by the legislative reference service of the Library of Congress, presents an overview of the political and social climate of the United States during the 1840s, and of Smith's brief presidential campaign. | | | The Joseph Smith, Jr., Collection (1829-1986) holds research papers, reports, and source materials pertaining to Joseph Smith, Jr. |
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http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/mss/ms386/386.html
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| | Joseph Smith - Home |
| | Joseph Smith paid Lucien Woodworth monies toward the building of a hotel named the Nauvoo House. | | | Daily Events in the Life of Joseph Smith |
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| | 1844 Murder of Joseph Smith Jr. |
| | The hierarchy told him no. The Freeman Bloodline "Yes, Mason's, it is said, were among the mob that murdered Joseph and Hyrum Smith in Carthage Jail. | | | The answer was the roar of his murder's muskets and the deadly balls that pierced his heart". | | | Joseph, leaping the fatal window, gave the Masonic signal of distress. |
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http://www.cephasministry.com/lds_murder_1844-jsjr.html
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| | Joseph Smith Jr. |
| | Abigail Howland; 1629; Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts John Howland Jr. | | | Joseph Sylvanus Martin Fisher; 2 March 1843; Jackson, Cook, Illinois |
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