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Contents 1 Criticism 1.1 Source(s) of the Criticism 2 Response 3 Further reading 3.1 FAIR wiki articles 3.2 FAIR web site 3.3 External links 3.4 Printed material

Criticism

Critics claim that Joseph Smith was not a true prophet, and that he made "false prophecies."

Source(s) of the Criticism

• Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945) 124. (Index)

Response

Specific accusations of false prophecy are treated in separate wiki articles:

Prophecy wiki articles

• Joseph Smith prophecies
  • Can't be killed within 5 years of August 1843
  • David Patten to serve a mission?
  • Independence temple to be built "in this generation"
  • Prophetic inerrancy?
  • Prophetic test in Deuteronomy
  • Second Coming in 1890 (56 years)
• Official doctrine: what is it?
• LDS prophets don't prophesy?
• Revelation after Joseph Smith ^{[needs work]}

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A list of some examples of fulfilled prophecies can be found here:

• Jeff Lindsay, "Fulfilled Prophesies of Joseph Smith," off-site

Further reading

FAIR wiki articles

Joseph Smith, Jr. wiki articles

• Did Joseph boast of keeping the Church intact?
• Healings and miracles?
• Holy Ghost, Joseph Smith is the
• Kinderhook Plates
• King of the world, anointed
• Lucy Mack Smith and Joseph's "amusing recitals" of Ancient Americans
• Martyr?
  • Martyrdom in Christian history
• Masonic cry of distress ^{[needs work]}
• Money digging/treasure seeking
• Moonmen
• Occult activities or "magick"?
• Personal failings
• Political activities
• Seer stones, use of
• Status in LDS belief
• Teller of tall tales?

Joseph Smith and legal issues wiki articles

• Joseph Smith and legal trials
  • 1826 trial
• Kirtland Safety Society
• Nauvoo city charter
  • Habeas corpus
• Nauvoo Expositor
  • Nauvoo Expositor Full Text

Prophecy wiki articles

• Joseph Smith prophecies
  • Can't be killed within 5 years of August 1843
  • David Patten to serve a mission?
  • Independence temple to be built "in this generation"
  • Prophetic inerrancy?
  • Prophetic test in Deuteronomy
  • Second Coming in 1890 (56 years)
• Official doctrine: what is it?
• LDS prophets don't prophesy?
• Revelation after Joseph Smith ^{[needs work]}

First Vision wiki articles

• First Vision accounts (Summary and index page)
• Religious revivals in 1820
• Conflation of 1824-25 revival?
• Early Smith family history
• Contradiction about knowing all churches were wrong
• Joseph Smith did not know if God existed in 1823
• Joseph Smith joined other churches
• 1830 statement about seeing "God"
• First Vision fabricated to give "Godly authority"
• D&C 84 says God not seen without priesthood?
• No reference to First Vision in 1830s publications?
• 1838 account modified to offset leadership crisis?
• First Vision story became more detailed and colorful after 1832?
• The "Angels" of the 1835 account
• Controversy Concerning D&C 121:28
• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
• Lack of contemporary Father and Son vision until 1838?
• No mention in non-LDS literature before 1843?
• Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877
  • Longer version (timeline)

Claims about the 1832 First Vision account

• Only one Personage appears in the 1832 account
• 1832 account doesn't mention new dispensation
• 1832 account doesn't mention a revival
• 1832 account doesn't forbid joining a church
• 1832 account doesn't mention persecution
• Motivation in 1832 account is different
• Different age provided in the 1832 text
• Struggle with Satan not in the 1832 account
• 1832 says wicked will be destroyed but 1838 doesn't
• 1832 vision set in heaven or on earth?
• Eternal life regardless of church affiliation in 1832 text?

Claims about other members and the First Vision

• George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"
• Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35
• Orson Hyde referred to "angels"
• Andrew Jenson called personage an "angel"
• Heber C. Kimball denied the Father appeared
• Orson Pratt confused about "angel" or Father-Son
• Parley P. Pratt only said that "God" appeared
• George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
• Lucy Mack Smith claimed "angel"?
• William Smith said First Vision was an "angel"?
• Orson Spencer said an "angel" was the first manifestation?
• John Taylor's understanding of the First Vision
• Wilford Woodruff spoke of an "angel"
• Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear
• Brigham Young never mentioned the First Vision

Joseph Smith other visionary issues wiki articles

• Joseph Smith's early conception of God
• Moroni as an angel of Satan
• Did Nephi or Moroni appear in 1823?
• Personages who appeared to Joseph Smith
• Swedenborg and three degrees of glory

God wiki articles

• The Father: A Spirit vs. Embodied
• Corporeality of God
• Unchanging Nature of God
• Creatio ex nihilo
  • Creation in Colossians 1:16
• Downplaying the King Follett discourse?
• Elohim and Jehovah
• Foreknowledge of God
• God is a Spirit
• Godhead and the Trinity
• Heavenly Mother?
• Infinite regress of Gods?
• Kolob
• "No God beside me" - (includes Isaiah 43-46 issues)
• No man has seen God
• Polytheism - Are Mormons polytheists?
• Spirit bodies for humans and 1 Cor 15
• Theosis/deification of man

Prophecy wiki articles

• Joseph Smith prophecies
  • Can't be killed within 5 years of August 1843
  • David Patten to serve a mission?
  • Independence temple to be built "in this generation"
  • Prophetic inerrancy?
  • Prophetic test in Deuteronomy
  • Second Coming in 1890 (56 years)
• Official doctrine: what is it?
• LDS prophets don't prophesy?
• Revelation after Joseph Smith ^{[needs work]}

FAIR web site

Joseph Smith FAIR articles

• FAIR Topical Guide: Joseph Smith FAIR link
  
  • FAIR Topical Guide: Character FAIR link
    
  • FAIR Topical Guide: Consent for others to enter heaven? FAIR link
    
  • FAIR Topical Guide: Family and Background FAIR link
    
  • FAIR Topical Guide: Status of Joseph Smith FAIR link
    
• FAIR Topical Guide: Prophets: Infallibility FAIR link
  

Joseph Smith other visionary issues FAIR links

• Craig Ray, "Joseph Smith's History Confirmed," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, August 2002) FAIR link

Prophecy FAIR articles

• FAIR Topical Guide: Prophets FAIR link
  
• FAIR Topical Guide: Failed prophecies? FAIR link
  
• FAIR Topical Guide: Miraculous events in early Church history FAIR link
  
• FAIR Topical Guide: Nature of Prophets and Prophecy FAIR link
  
• FAIR Topical Guide: Prophetic calling of Joseph Smith FAIR link
  
• FAIR Topical Guide: Prophetic infallibility FAIR link
  
• John A. Tvedtnes, "The Nature of Prophets and Prophecy." FAIR link

External links

Joseph Smith, Jr. on-line articles

• Leonard J. Arrington, "The Human Qualities of Joseph Smith, the Prophet," Ensign (January 1971): 35ff. off-site
• Richard L. Bushman, "Joseph Smith Miscellany," (Mesa, Arizona: FAIR, 2005 FAIR Conference). FAIR link
• Richard L. Bushman, Dean C. Jessee and Truman G. Madsen, "Smith, Joseph," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., edited by Daniel H. Ludlow, (New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1992), 3:1331–1348. ISBN 002904040X. off-site off-site
• Andrew H. Hedges and Dawson W. Hedges, "No, Dan, That's Still Not History (Review of: Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet, by Dan Vogel)," FARMS Review 17/1 (2005): 205–222. off-site PDF link
• Louis Midgley, "Editor's Introduction: Knowing Brother Joseph Again," FARMS Review 18/1 (2006): xi–lxxiv. off-site PDF link wiki
• Louis Midgley, "Two Stories—One Faith," FARMS Review 19/1 (2007): 55–79. off-site PDF link wiki
• Larry E. Morris, "Joseph Smith and "Interpretive Biography", Review of Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet by Dan Vogel," FARMS Review 18/1 (2006): 321–374. off-site PDF link wiki

Prophecy on-line articles

• "Approaching Mormon Doctrine", news release from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 May 2007. off-site
• Alma Allred, "Coin of the Realm: Beware of Specious Specie (Review of: "Scripture," In The Counterfeit Gospel of Momonism)," FARMS Review of Books 12/1 (2000): 137–174. off-site PDF link
• Shirley D. Christensen, "The Clarion Call of Prophets," Ensign (November 2003): 32. off-site
• Jeffrey R. Holland, "Prophets in the Land Again," Ensign (November 2006): 104–107. off-site
• Malin L. Jacobs, "The Alleged Fifty-Six-Year Second-Coming Prophecy of Joseph Smith: An Analysis," (City Unknown: SHIELDS, 13-Jul-97) off-site
• Bruce R. McConkie, "Are the General Authorities Human?", address at the LDS Institute of Religion at the University of Utah, 28 October 1966. PDF link
• Robert L. Millet, "What Is Our Doctrine?" The Religious Educator 4/3 (2003): 15–33. PDF link
• Boyd K. Packer, "On Zion's Hill," Ensign (November 2005): 23. off-site
• Daniel C. Peterson, "Review of Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism by Ed Decker," FARMS Review of Books 7/2 (1995): 38–105. off-site PDF link
• W. John Walsh, Joseph Fielding McConkie, and Jeff Lindsay, "Are Prophets Infallible?" off-site

Printed material

Joseph Smith, Jr. printed materials

• Richard L. Bushman, "Joseph Smith's Family Background," in The Prophet Joseph: Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith, ed. Larry C. Porter and Susan Easton Black (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988), 1–18. ISBN 0875791778. GospeLink
• Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Knopf, 2005), 1. ISBN 1400042704
• Mark L. McConkie, Remembering Joseph: Personal Recollections of Those Who Knew the Prophet Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 2003) (print version). ISBN 978-1570089633. GospeLink (Key source)

Prophecy printed materials