Joseph Smith's First Vision, Boasting and Martyrdom
Channel: People of the Free Gift
Date: 2018-08-31

Joseph Smith's 1st Vision, Boasting and Martyrdom

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mar·tyr
ˈmärdər/Submit
noun
1.
a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.
"saints, martyrs, and witnesses to the faith"
verb
1.
kill (someone) because of their beliefs.
"she was martyred for her faith”

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(possible series)
Plenty to study here on the First Vision accounts, each individual must study such things for themselves to see if it makes sense. You seem to have the same textbook anti-Mormon lines and there doesn’t seem to be very much faith in Christ or seeking truth through prayerful study. 

https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Joseph_Smith%27s_First_Vision

Joseph Smith's First Vision
Summary: Joseph Smith's claim that he saw the Father and the Son in 1820 has produced a wide variety of criticism. This set of articles addresses the various critical claims related to the First Vision. The linked articles below are designed to help readers to see some of the weaknesses that are found in arguments that are made against Joseph Smith's First Vision accounts. Some of these arguments are currently being advocated in anti-Mormon literature that is handed out near the Sacred Grove in Palmyra, New York.

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Criticisms of the First Vision accounts
Criticisms of events leading up to the First Vision
Criticisms of events occurring after the First Vision
Doctrinal issues related to the First Vision
Primary sources related to Joseph Smith's First Vision

God touched his eyes with his finger and said “[Joseph] this is my beloved Son hear him.” As soon as the Lord had touched his eyes with his finger he immediately saw the Savior. After meeting, a few of us questioned him about the matter and he told us at the bottom of the meeting house steps that he was in the House of Father Smith in Kirtland when Joseph made this declaration, and that Joseph while speaking of it put his finger to his right eye, suiting the action with the words so as to illustrate and at the same time impress the [occurrence] on the minds of those unto whom He was speaking.

—Diary of Charles Lowell Walker (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1980), 2:755–56 [recorded 2 February 1893]"

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(possible series)
Was Joseph Smith boasting? Again from the anti-Mormon playbook. There is actually 50 questions or more that has been put out by anti-Mormons, here is something to read on this one question. Hopefully anyone who watches this video will put sometime into reading them and then with an open mind decided for themselves. 

https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Joseph_Smith/Narcissism/Boasting

Accusations that Joseph Smith was prone to boasting
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Question: Is the quote of Joseph Smith's "boasting" of keeping the Church intact accurate?
Question: Was Joseph Smith prone to boasting?
Question: Did Joseph Smith believe that he was better than Jesus Christ?
Question: Did Joseph Smith say that he would be a "second Muhammad," threatening to spread his beliefs with the sword?

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