Twenty-Five (1830)further from the truth.^19 The purported history of the LDS Church is a revised and trumped-
up fabrication developed and written by Brigham Young.^20
Ironically, the authorized and accepted History of the Church (a seven volume set
compiled between 1902 and 1912), verifies that Brigham Young revised the history of Joseph
Smith. The revision process is accounted for in volume 7, pages 389–90, 408, 411, 414, 427–8,
514, 519–20, 532–3, and 556, among others. How many times did Brigham Young have to
write that he was engaged in “revising the history of Joseph Smith” before the modern
LDS/Mormon people would finally accept the fact that what they have been spoon-fed by
their current leaders is not the real truth, but an intentional fabrication and convolution of
events that support Brigham Young’s church?
Lucy Smith’s biography has been mentioned in this authorized and official
biography as giving a distortion of the facts. Also mentioned was the inaccuracy of the
copious number of sworn historical affidavits, both for and against Joseph Smith. When
Lucy Mack Smith’s history first started circulating among the LDS/Mormon people in the
Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young denounced the book and ordered it burned.^21 Ironically,
however, Young’s motivation was not honestly based on distortions of fact in the
biography, but rather, the animosity that Joseph’s mother held towards him as Joseph’s
alleged successor. Even so, Lucy’s biography is modernly seen as a reliable resource among
modern Church historians, distortions and all.
This Biography Sets the Record Straight
This biography will not take the time to counter everything that Brigham Young and
other post-Joseph Smith leaders did to distort the truth to fit their own agendas. As has been
mentioned, no biography ever written about Joseph Smith or the history of the
LDS/Mormon Church contains the truth. For this very purpose, the resurrected Joseph
mandated the publication of this book.
One will find that there are obvious contradictions between what this authorized
and official biography presents and what is written in the many other accounts published
about Joseph’s life. These contradictions not only include particular dates of events, but also
some events recorded herein that will contradict the popularly accepted historical accounts
of the same event. Many things in this very biography might be puzzling to the reader who
knows little about early Mormon history.
In reality, and true to the nature and purpose of this biography, details are not as
important as what will last forever as a binding testimony of truth, revealing the true
reasons behind the things that Joseph did while he lived as a mortal modern-day Moses.
Even the first five books of Moses in the Old Testament breathe life into the parallels
intended by the advanced monitors overseeing Joseph’s work. The actual “Moses,” if there
ever was one, had nothing to do with presenting the history of the Jewish people in the
books attributed to his name (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy);^22
they were written much later by zealous and proud proponents of the “Law of Moses,”
attributing them to Moses’ name. If the alleged Moses had anything to do with writing that
history, then there would have been some first person authorship establishing the identity
and taking ownership of the contents of the books; yet, there is none. With the entirety of
the books of Moses being written in the third person throughout, there remains absolutely
nothing to establish the true author of these books.