[Godzilla]

Not a bad "apologetic" post from an LDS apologetical view, LL...from a "Christian" perspective just a wee bit of a problem with your narrow interpretation of Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith - History, vv. 18-20. That "wee" problem is the "broad" and "blunt" slam of the LDS Church that ALL non-Mormon churches are "apostate."

This brings forth another question - was there a revival going on in 1820? Records indicate that the answer was no. If this was not happening, then did Smith really have a visitation at all? Why, after this alledged visitation, three years later Smith sought to join one of these apostate churches?

[Elsie]

This brings forth another question - was there a revival going on in 1820? Records indicate that the answer was no. If this was not happening, then did Smith really have a visitation at all? Why, after this alledged visitation, three years later Smith sought to join one of these apostate churches?

Hey!!

How DARE you use historical fact to bring suspicion on the motives of our Glorious Founder, Joseph Smith (pbuh)?

Haven't we WARNED you before about this?

--MormonDude(Do NOT get me started!)

[Zakeet]

Re: This brings forth another question - was there a revival going on in 1820? Records indicate that the answer was no. If this was not happening, then did Smith really have a visitation at all? Why, after this alleged visitation, three years later Smith sought to join one of these apostate churches?

WHICH FIRST VISION ACCOUNT SHOULD WE BELIEVE?

LDS faithful believe it all began when 14-year-old Joseph Smith, the church's founder, had a vision of God and Jesus Christ in a grove of trees in 1820.

Our whole strength rests on the validity of that vision. It either occurred or it did not occur. If it did not, then this work is a fraud. If it did, then it is the most wonderful and important work under the heavens. - LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley, Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 7, 2002, pages A1 & A6

You might find the above linked article and the embedded video interesting.