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005 Q&R! What About Others Who Claimed Similar Visions in Joseph Smith’s Day? Etc.

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Joseph Smith's Vision

Stephen Ballis: How similar was Joseph Smith's experience to the common sort of evangelical and particularly Methodist conversion narratives of that day? He says there are people not just in upstate New York, but throughout the North American continent who testify that they've had some variation on a vision. And these are similar to Joseph's in some ways, and then they're quite different in some ways., he says. "I do not doubt them or dispute them," Ballis adds. 'There's no reason why we shouldn't expect that to have been happened'

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