1469: John Larsen Analyzes the 1st First Vision Account

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Summary

As most Mormons are just now beginning to learn, Joseph Smith left multiple and varied First Vision accounts that changed dramatically over time. Joseph Smith's 1st handwritten First Vision account was produced in 1832, and was intentionally hidden from LDS Church members for over a century and a half - primarily because of the many problems it presented to orthodox belief. The "official" First Vision account that the LDS Church ended up adopting is the 1838 version, which varies in several significant ways from the previous versions - primarily reflecting Joseph Smith's evolving theological beliefs.

Join us today as John Larsen analyzes Joseph Smith's FIRST (1832) handwritten First Vision account, and explores the many difficulties this version presents to modern Mormon faith.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormasaurus podcast. I'm your host John
0:05.0	Delin. It's August 26th, 2021. And we have another really exciting special John Larson
0:12.5	packed Mormasaurus podcast episode for you today. Hey, John Larson, welcome back to the
0:17.3	Mormasaurus podcast studio. Hey, thanks for having me. Glad to be here.
0:21.0	I have probably one of the most exciting announcements of at least the past five years that I'm
0:27.2	going to make right now. I don't have to tell you the hundred plus of you that are tuned
0:32.2	in right now because you're so excited to hear from John Larson that it's super cool to
0:36.2	have John Larson back in the podcasting chair, sharing with us his wisdom and wit. What I do
0:42.3	want to announce is something that is super cool. So for those of you who are just brand new
0:47.6	to kind of Mormon thought and discussion outside of correlated orthodox Mormonism, you won't
0:53.3	know that John Larson ran a really cool podcast called Mormon expression from around 2008.
1:00.1	2009 to 2014. 2009 to 2014. Yeah. And it's got over 200 episodes. And anytime there's
1:09.2	kind of this reddit thread of like what are the most impactful podcasts ever? There's always
1:14.0	like Michael Coe, Tom Phillips with Mormon stories or Donna Schoelalter earlier young.
1:19.5	There's a few there, you know, RFM's got some bill reals got some, but always there's several
1:24.9	episodes that are mentioned for Mormon expression podcast, including how to build a trans-oceanic
1:30.4	vessel DNC 132 DNC 89. Several really, really important episodes were John Larson along
1:39.1	with his ex wife, Zilpha. And often a panel of guests would deconstruct and talk about
1:45.8	really important episodes. So Mormon expression was super important for so long. And then one
1:51.1	day there was this wave of hacks on WordPress sites. Mormon stories got hacked, Mormon expression
1:56.5	got hacked. And basically it took Mormon expression off the internet for a long, long time and
2:03.4	destroyed the RSS feed so that Mormon expression couldn't be consumed by a podcast app like
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