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Show vision that WAS NEVER CLAIMED UNTIL 1840. Then it was first put forth that there was two personages together. Orson Pratt wrote in 1840 that 11Joseph This Smith had seen ((TWO PERSONAGES." not written or recorded again until Joseph was Smith wrote the ((WENTWORTH LETTER," prin ted in the Times and Seasons, March 1, 1842, and made the statement that he saw two glorious personages. 12 Let's take a look as to why after twenty to twenty two years had passed and NO SUCH CLAIM had been made did it arise in 1840 and 1842? ever This claim of seeing the Father and the Son did not appear in any of the newspapers of the 1820' s and the 1830's. IT WAS NOT SPOKEN OF IN ANY OF THE WRITINGSOFTHOSEWHO WROTE AGAINST MORMONISM during this per iod. This should impress every mind to consider. The Smith family in speaking of the first vision, referred TO THE 1823 VISIT OF THE. ANGEL and even Lucy Smith wrote the 1820 account from Sea Joseph Smith's account in the 1842 "Times and sons." This false claim arose twenty-two years after it was supposed to have happened to support a false teaching. In 1835 Joseph Smith brought forth the "Book of Abraham" from as he claimed some ancient manuscript This so-called Book of Abra 13 ham TAUGHT A PLURALITY OF GODS. March and 1, 1842, Jo In the Times Seasons, AND EN PUBLICATION the Smith began seph DORSEMENT of the, "Book of Abraham." This is why the claim of a vision of TWO GODS, which had never been claimed before came forth. The "Book of Abraham" teaches a PLURALITY OF GODS. Joseph Smith had accepted this FALSE 10 and DOCTRINE know, ((IF A SUPREME BEING EXISTED," is certainly a contradiction of the worse kind. That Joseph Smith saw more than AN ANGEL ( was to pave supposed the way, introduces a to have happened when he was fifteen, ALTHOUGH IN PUBLIC PRINT THIS AGE HAD BEEN CORRECTED AND THE PUBLIC WAS TOLD HIT WAS AN ERROR IN THE TYPE." The plurality of Gods was taught by Joseph Smith and believed by the Latter Day Saints in Nauvoo, illinois, before Joseph Smith's death in June, 1844. In an editorial of January 15, 1844, the teaching is found. At the April Conference of 1844, Joseph Smith in a sermon made the following statements. H all to know God, to be familiar with I want you him, and if I can bring you to him, all persecutions am his ser against me will cease; you will know I one having authority-First, vant, for I speak as God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heavens, IS A MAN LIKE UNTO ONE OF YOURSELVES, that we may converse that is the great secret. with man another, and that God with him as one T ON AN EAR DWEL all us of Father the himself; TH the same as Jesus Christ himself did, and I I defy all the learn will show it from the Bible. combined powers of earth the all and wisdom, ing and hell together, to refute it Here then is eternal life to know the only wise and true God. You have to be kings got to learn how to be Gods yourselves; and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done; from a small degree to another, from . . . . . . by going from exaltation to exaltation,. learn you more than what I have told HEAD GOD BROUGHT FORTH you. Thus the 14 THE GODS IN THE GRAND COUNCIL." also This teaching appears in grace to grace, No man . . can (emphasis ours). the Millennial Star, August, 1842, Volume 3, ,Num ber 4, Page 7l. To substantiate this false teaching of a plural from the Book of ity of Gods, which was taken 11 |
