Joseph Smith's Early Life
What is the year Joseph Smith was born.
What is 1805?
This verse from the Epistle of James inspired Joseph Smith to pray for wisdom.
What is James 1:5?
This denomination was the first to experience the religious excitement that Joseph Smith observed in Manchester.
What is the Methodist Church?
A Methodist preacher claimed Joseph Smith’s vision was inspired by this source.
What is "the devil"?
Joseph Smith concluded that this was not his duty, despite his original intent to seek divine guidance on the matter.
What is joining any of the existing religious sects?
In his tenth year, Joseph Smith’s father moved the family from this state to New York.
What is Vermont?
Joseph Smith’s First Vision took place during this year.
What is 1820?
Joseph Smith described the religious confusion of his time with this phrase about the competing faiths.
What is "a war of words and tumult of opinions"?
Despite being an obscure boy of little consequence, Joseph Smith faced persecution from these individuals.
Who are the leaders of the popular sects?
Joseph Smith declared that no persecution or reviling could make him deny these two things he experienced during the First Vision.
What are seeing a light and hearing a voice?
The name of Joseph Smith’s mother, who joined the Presbyterian faith along with Hyrum, Samuel, and Sophronia.
Who is Lucy Mack Smith?
In the First Vision, Joseph Smith saw two Personages. One of them identified the other with these words.
What is "This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!"?
The term Joseph Smith used to describe his feelings when reflecting on the religious strife and his own lack of direction.
What is "great uneasiness"?
Joseph Smith compared his experience of being ridiculed for his vision to this biblical figure who defended his vision before King Agrippa.
Who is Paul?
The First Vision taught Joseph Smith that this power was greater than the ridicule and attacks he faced.
What is God's power?
Joseph Smith was born in this Vermont town in 1805.
What is Sharon?
The description Joseph Smith gave for the light that appeared to him during his First Vision.
What is a "pillar of light above the brightness of the sun"?
Joseph Smith was told this about joining any of the religious sects of his day.
What is "Join none of them"?
Joseph Smith compared the persecution he faced to the treatment of saints in this historical record.
What is the Bible?
Joseph Smith described the strength of this trait as what helped him endure years of persecution.
What is faith?
The total number of souls in Joseph Smith's immediate family when they lived in Manchester, New York.
What is eleven?
Joseph Smith was forbidden to join any church because this was how the creeds of all sects were described.
What is "an abomination in His sight"?
Joseph Smith’s unwavering claim about his First Vision, despite widespread persecution.
What is "I have seen a vision"?
According to Joseph Smith, this was the primary reason many people persecuted him after he shared his First Vision.
What is "he claimed to have seen God the Father and Jesus Christ"?
Despite widespread opposition, Joseph Smith declared he had this unshakable conviction about his First Vision.
What is "I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny it"?