In 1820, then a teenager, Joseph Smith and his family were caught up in what Smith described as a “war of words and tumult of opinions” regarding religion (JSH 1.10).

Mormons Believe This Is The Spot Where Joseph Smith First Saw Jesus Christ And God. ... According to LDS doctrine, Smith had this Vision in 1820, when he went out to the grove to pray.

By contrast, the prophet Joseph Smith’s vision of Jesus Christ and God the Father in the woods near his upstate New York home in 1820 is not only sorely lacking in evidence but is utterly ...

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. Joseph ponders the scripture and decides to retire to a nearby grove ...

Joseph Smith Jr. said the he had his First Vision of Christ in the woods of Palmyra, New York, in 1820. More visions led to the Book of Mormon and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

A granite obelisk rises 38.5 feet above the dark green woods of Sharon, a small town on the White River in Vermont. Each foot represents a year in the life of Joseph Smith Jr., the progenitor ...

Recently, I explored the Samaritan woman at the well near the village of Sychar found in 4th Chapter of St. John's Gospel. She's a real piece of work; she doesn't hold her tongue, isn't the least ...

History of Joseph Smith, Jr., by himself, in Joseph Smith's Letter Book at Kirtland, November 27, 1832 to August 4, 1835 (Church Historian's Library, Salt Lake City, Utah). History of the Prophet ...