Joseph Smith Biography

Fifteen (1820) Preparing Joseph for his Mission Perceiving Joseph’s thoughts, Christ continued, “Sit here with me now. We have m ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity At times, Joseph smiled and gently laughed, as Christ explained the myths and legends that h ...

Fifteen (1820) that person’s free will; nor would such a being ask something of a mortal that the being thought the mortal could ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity timetable previously agreed upon by all of us, as (relatively) newly created advanced humans ...

Fifteen (1820) NOTES (^1) See, e.g., Clinton Rossiter, ed., The Federalist Papers (New York: NAL Penguin, 1961) Introduction, vi ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity Smith specifically instructed that these things be placed in Lucifer’s apron (being a repres ...

Fifteen (1820) (^42) “History of Joseph Smith.” Times and Seasons 3 (1 Apr. 1842): 748. See also DHC, 1:6. (^43) BOM, Mosiah 4:2 ...

SIXTEEN (1821) In his sixteenth year, Joseph had more knowledge and wisdom than anyone else in the world. The religious views of ...

Sixteen (1821) pursuit, or before sufficient knowledge or experience is gained to reason otherwise. Adult mortals are influenced ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity The Book of Mormon presents an account of how Christ visited the adult Nephites. After he ha ...

Sixteen (1821) In this dialogue, Joseph presented the fact that all vocalized prayers are answered by Lucifer,^18 who has been t ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity Religion is an Abomination Everything Christ told the young Joseph made perfect sense to him ...

Sixteen (1821) Using Guile for the Sake of the World The teenage Joseph developed a penchant for guile unlike any other boy of h ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity moving around the country without a stable home. That all changed when Joseph gained a real ...

Sixteen (1821) James, and John in the endowment: “observe conditions generally; see if Satan is there”...“without disclosing [yo ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity (^27) Isaiah 28:10. (^28) Lucy Smith, Progenitors, 92. (^29) See ch. 7, n. 4. (^30) One’s “n ...

SEVENTEEN (1822) Joseph learned the importance of not disclosing what he knew. He also learned how to present real truth without ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity not to do something is like giving him tacit permission to do it, as long as the parent does ...

Seventeen (1822) The above mandate that was given to Isaiah supports what was given in the Book of Mormon about how true messeng ...

Without Disclosing My True Identity When Joseph began his role in the latter part of 1827, he attempted to give the people “the ...