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Church History Matters

004 How Do 2nd and 3rd Hand Accounts Add to Our Understanding of the First Vision?

Church History Matters

Scripture Central

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

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 the details of what they heard. Luckily, a few of those handwritten accounts have survived until today and some of them contain even more details about Joseph’s vision which add to our understanding of what happened in 1820 in the Sacred Grove in Palmyra, New York. In today's episode we explore three of these second hand accounts and then one bonus third-hand account which contains a significant detail that no other account ever mentions.

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Hi, this is Scott from Church History Matters. As we near the end of this series, we want to hear your questions about Joseph Smith's First Vision.

0:08.0

Next week we will be honored to have with us a special guest, Dr Stephen C. Harper, a church historian and scholar of the

0:15.3

first vision to help us respond to your questions. So you can record yourself asking

0:19.9

your question anytime up to March 29th,

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2023.

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That's tomorrow if you're listening to this on today's

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episode's release date.

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And send it in to info at scripturecentral.org.

0:30.0

Let us know your name, where you're from,

0:32.0

and try to keep it to about 20 seconds or so.

0:35.0

Also, please transcribe your question when you email it in.

0:38.0

That helps out a lot.

0:39.0

Okay, now on to the episode. Thousands of people heard Joseph Smith's testimony firsthand.

0:51.0

Some of those testimonies included him telling about his first vision

0:54.4

experience and some of those people who heard his witness wrote down the

0:58.4

details of what they heard. Luckily a few of those accounts have survived

1:02.3

until today and some of them contain even more details about Joseph's vision, which add to our understanding of what happened in 1820 in the Sacred Grove in Palmyra, New York.

1:13.0

Today on Church History Matters, we explore three of these secondhand accounts,

1:17.0

and then one bonus third hand account, which contains a significant detail that no other account ever mentions.

1:23.4

I'm Scott Woodward, a managing director at Scripture Central, and my co-host is Casey Griffiths,

1:28.5

also a managing director at Scripture Central.

1:31.3

This is our fourth episode in this series dealing with Joseph Smith's first

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