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The same criticisms of the accounts of the First Vision also apply to the gospels in the NT. There are differences. Also, was Joseph Smith trying to emphasize a part of the experience to the select audience? How often do we “get it right” when we try to remember something in the past?

What seems most important to me is the contemporaneous testimony (speaking legally not spiritually) of those who encountered Joseph Smith at the time of the First Vision. And one must question as to why Joseph Smith would make the story up as well. To what benefit?

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