Edited sentence: "  This seems to be a contradiction in Joseph Smiths vision and what the Bible clearly teaches.A usual rebuttal would be, "Didn't Abraham see the face of God".In the Bible we see in John 1:18, John writes "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.Joseph Smith first had a dream that God and Jesus Christ Came to him in a vision in the wilderness.The book of Mormon was a book originally created by Joseph Smith.This allows it to be that no man has seen God the "Father" but it is certainly possible for man to have seen God the son, "Jesus".This fundamental difference is one distinction between the Mormon faith and Christian faith.This would make it impossible for Joseph Smith to see the face of both the Father and the Son at the same time.Yes, but in the Christian faith, Jesus and God the father are the same God