Episode 56: Community of Christ and the First Vision (Keith Wilson)

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BYU Religious Education

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🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Community of Christ, formerly known as the “Reorganized” Church or “RLDS,” is a global restoration faith which traces its origins to the life and ministry of Joseph Smith. In this episode, Dr. Keith Wilson of BYU Religious Education provides a fascinating historical and doctrinal journey of two different restoration faiths that share the same roots by comparing each church’s respective views of Joseph Smith’s First Vision throughout the years.

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0:00.0	Hi, my friends Anthony Sweat here from B.O.U. Church History and Doctrine. Welcome to another episode of the Why Religion Podcast
0:06.8	In 2016, I had a marvelous and an unforgettable experience
0:12.3	My colleague Dr. Keith Wilson from B.O.U. Ancient Scripture
0:15.9	invited me to travel to Missouri with him to present some of my research at an event that he was helping to organize
0:22.4	called the Book of Mormon Conference in Zion
0:25.9	This conference is really unique and it brings together believers in the Book of Mormon from all different
0:32.7	Restoration faiths sometimes called our sister or our cousins in the Restoration
0:38.8	Some of the sinners may not realize that there are dozens of faiths that believe in Joseph Smith's prophetic mission and in the Book of Mormon's divinity
0:46.1	But they are not members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
0:50.5	In fact, I'll never forget an interaction that I had at that conference when I sat down at a table and a person asked me which church I belonged to
0:59.0	I responded with something like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and they said which one I
1:06.1	Posed and said something like the one
1:09.6	She said back lowercase D or uppercase D because those are two different churches by the way
1:16.6	lowercase D, I said glad that I knew the official spelling and name of the Church. Oh, she said to me with a smile. You're a Brighamite
1:26.4	I laughed and said I have never been called that in my life
1:30.5	She said that's what we call the Church that went west and followed Brigham
1:34.4	Sometimes we also call you mountain Saints and then she pointed to another man at the table and said this man here
1:40.2	He's a bicker tonight or from those that followed Sidney Rigden and his successor William Bickerton
1:45.7	And that person over there he's a headrakeite and then she said and I'm a Joseph fight or a follower of Joseph Smith the third
1:54.1	Well, you can just imagine how delightful our lunch table conversation was that day and in fact the whole conference was
2:02.5	Of the current roughly
2:04.7	17 million plus people who believe in the restoration our faith the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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