His word cannot be taken for scrap because he gave so many discordant accounts.
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How do you feel about Joey Smith and his “vision” ??? “His word cannot be taken for scrap because he gave so many discordant accounts.”
Are you referring to the Nine Different Versions of the First Vision, or to the Tenth Version contained in Mark Hofmann's Salamander Letter?
Personally, I believe in Smith's First Vision account as much as I believe in his translation of the Book of Abraham, Kinderhook Plates, and Book of Mormon Plates.
I have no idea as to your religious persuasion, nor do I care. I’m sure if you presented your religion honestly, I could pick through it and find inconsistencies, intrigues, and doctrines that defy logic or seem mystic in some manner. No religion, nor its adherents, have claim to absolute historical piety.
My vote is to let God decide. Murderers are murderers. Sin is sin. God is judge and I can only do my best to stay on His path. If others go astray, I am responsible for nothing but helping them find the way. In the end, they choose their fate. Neither you nor I get to judge them or choose their path for them, even if we believe their path to be as silly as seeing the Virgin Mary on the back of a freeway sign, or on a piece of morning toast.