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The 1832 account is the earliest known version, written in Joseph Smith’s own handwriting 12 years after the event and there is no other contemporary record from anyone. It was written in a letterbook but never publicly known until the 1960s. This version was removed from the letterbook and hidden in a safe when Joseph Fielding Smith first found it because it was so strange.

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https://wasmormon.org/why-worry-about-different-versions-of-the-first-vision/

Hinckley says he's not worried that Joseph Smith's multiple versions of his First Vision. He dismisses these different versions of the vision without ever mentioning any differences in the accounts. His goal is calming members who have heard of these strange accounts, and hope they will not look at them.

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Today, the fact that Joseph Smith was involved in treasure digging is undisputed, yet still hardly common knowledge among members of the church.

https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-was-a-glass-looking-treasure-digger/

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Benjamin Franklin on Treasure Seeking Seers. Franklin saw the folly and called it out as the “most egregious folly and madness.”

The church denied Joseph’s involvement with treasure digging until the evidence was no longer possible to refute or ignore. There is no doubt today that Joseph Smith was deeply involved with treasure digging.

https://wasmormon.org/benjamin-franklin-on-treasure-seeking-seers/ #exmormon #benjaminfranklin #josephsmith #Mormon #lds #ldschurch #folkmagic #seerstone #treasure #prophet #profiteering #iwasamormon

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Joseph Smith Confessed His Seer Stone Is Nonsense

https://wasmormon.org/joseph-smith-confirms-his-seer-stone-is-nonsense/

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