probably the most well-known individual who struggled with the vision at first was Brigham Young.

How come it seems like a lot of early church members responded negatively to the vision?

Church history is the story of a lot of people who are as flawed as I am and flawed as any,

you know, trying their best to follow the Savior, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing.

It teaches us something about God's character and his mercy.

God is a lot more generous and God is a lot more willing to save people.

I never really held the view that most of Heavenly Father's children are going to go to hell

or that there even was a hell the way that it's conceived of in popular culture where it's

like a cave and everybody's in ragged clothes and the devil's presiding over.

I just never really grew up believing that.

This thing came along and kind of blindsided them welcome to church

history matters i'm casey and i have with me matt mcbride this is one of those special episodes

this year voices of the restoration which occasionally allows us to to pause them the doctor

and covenants and do a deeper dive into some historical topics surrounding it.

And today we're doing a deeper dive into some of the history surrounding Doctrine and Covenants 76, also known as the vision.

So we're really happy to have Matt McBride with us today, especially because Scott is out of town.

So I'm doing this solo.

So let me read Matt's bio and then we'll dive into things.

Matt is a historian and director of publications for the church history department.

He is a contributing author and co-editor of revelations and Context, the stories behind the sections of

the doctrine and covenants. Matt was a historian on the Joseph Smith Papers Project and a

contributing writer in Saints, the story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the latter days. So

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