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To: Scoutmaster
...the First Vision stated that two personages told Smith that all churches are corrupt.

Oh?

I could only find data that claimed that ONE 'personage' spoke and the other was SILENT.


NIV Galatians 1:6-9
6. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--
7. which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
8. But even
if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
9. As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
 
Even ANGELs from HEAVEN???
 
 
 
 
 
 
It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound.
When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air.
One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other—This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!


 
NIV Galatians 1:6-9
6. I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--
7. which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
8. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
9. As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
ANYBODY???
 
 
 
Like this fine looking fellow???



2 Corinthians 11:12-15
12. And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about.
13. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
14. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
15. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve. 

44 posted on 12/23/2011 1:50:42 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie
I could only find data that claimed that ONE 'personage' spoke and the other was SILENT.

You are right; I am wrong. I wrote without having a grid of all of the versions of the First Vision in front of me, or copies of all the versions printed out. And I can only look at one page of Dialogue: A journal of Mormon Thought, or BYU Studies, or www.lds.org at a time.

It would make it easier if there were fewer versions or if they were more similar.

46 posted on 12/23/2011 2:08:28 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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