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001 Why Are There Different Accounts of the First Vision?

Church History Matters

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Joseph's Confessions in the 1832 Account

The 1832 account is deeply personal. It's about him and his sins and his struggle to overcome his weaknesses. The idea that there was no church that could help him is kind of underwritten into the near future. He doesn't find an institutional answer to the question of remission of his sins. But that actually leads into the most controversial part, which is the way he describes the Theophany.

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