Mormon Stories Podcast Mormon Historian Admits Joseph Smith First Vision Problems Raised in CES Letter - Dr. Steven Harper | Ep. 1976
Join us for a discussion with Sandra Tanner and Dan Vogel as we explore a remarkable video featuring BYU Professor and leading Mormon historian Steven C. Harper. In this video, Harper addresses key issues with the First Vision narrative and acknowledges several challenges raised by the CES Letter.
00:07:40 Wesley Walters
00:13:45 Clip - Fawn Brodie
00:26:09 Clip - Steven Harper on Joseph changing his story
00:27:37 Summary of the 1838 Account of the First Vision
00:39:42 Hermeneutics of doubt and trust
00:42:55 Clip - Bushman taking a charitable approach
00:50:02 Clip - publishing through Oxford
00:56:12 Clip - Memory studies nature of memory
01:00:38 John calling BS on Joseph Smith’s vision
01:19:15 Joseph Smith believed that God and Jesus were one being in 1832
01:30:50 The problem with Mormon apologetics with the First Vision
01:37:50 Clip - Critics not trusting Joseph Smith
01:45:32 Clip - How can you know without the Spirit?
01:55:45 Faith is a matter of choice?
02:01:19 Clip - BYU responding to Wes Walters
02:18:12 Clip - How many accounts of the First Vision?
02:36:20 Who visited him changes from 1832 to 1838
02:38:55 Clip - There will always be doubt
02:54:00 Clip - I might not have seen what Joseph saw
02:56:55 Distinguishing features of modern Mormonism
03:03:46 Mental gymnastics
03:13:50 Clip - Who does Joseph tell?
03:19:00 Joseph Smith’s name on the Methodist Sunday School
03:24:55 Clip - Ask Joseph Smith
03:34:25 Final thoughts
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