The three hardest words in the English language. You might have noticed that earlier tonight I posted about the various First Vision accounts. I made some rather egregious errors in the post, and a friend of mine was thankfully quick to catch them. Consequently, I have removed the post.
The problem: A website to which I often referred failed to include one of Joseph Smith’s First Vision accounts in full. I have to assume that this was deliberate, as the omitted portion neutralizes an alleged contradiction among the First Vision accounts—a contradiction that I originally discussed in my now-deleted post. This all just goes to show the importance of skepticism, I guess. There’s a lot of bullshit to wade through in this world (especially on the internet).
Once I revise the post, I will upload it. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Update: You can read the revised First Vision post here.
Was this the site you used?
http://www.irr.org/mit/first-vision/fvision-accounts.html
I’ve been relying on that for awhile, and would like to know if it is the one with the bad omissions.
I usually avoid IRR because of its Christian agenda, but it did not make the omission that I’m alluding to, thankfully.
The site that screwed me over was lds-mormon.com. It’s usually a rather reliable site, actually–one recommended to me by an LDS professor of mine, no less! But yeah, just because you can trust a site on some issues doesn’t mean that you can trust a site on all issues.
Oh, and mormonthink.com is pretty bad with regards to some aspects of the First Vision, too.
I will be more explicit in where I went wrong when I post about the First Vision this weekend.
I trusted you…… it’s gonna take more than a clever post to get my trust back!
That’s it, I’m reconverting to Mormonism. All exmormons have an agenda against the church, and this just proves it. All claims negative to the church are false!