Wednesday, April 22, 2015

A buried book made of gold plates..................................like,,,,,,,,,,what is going on????



Years later Smith said that in 1820 he had received a vision that resolved his religious confusion.[14] While praying in a wooded area near his home, he said that God, in a vision, had told him his sins were forgiven and that all contemporary churches had "turned aside from the gospel."[15] Smith said he told the experience to a preacher, who dismissed the story with contempt; but the experience was largely unknown, even to most Mormons, until the 1840s.[16] Although Smith may have understood the event as a personal conversion, this "First Vision" later grew in importance among Mormons, who today see it as the founding event of Mormonism.[17]
Smith said he received golden plates from the angel Moroni at the Hill Cumorah.
Smith said that in 1823 while praying one night for forgiveness from his sins, he was visited by an angel named Moroni, who revealed the location of a buried book made of golden plates, as well as other artifacts, including a breastplate and a set of interpreters composed of two seer stones set in a frame, which had been hidden in a hill in Manchester near his home.[18] Smith said he attempted to remove the plates the next morning but was unsuccessful because the angel prevented him.[19] Smith reported that during the next four years, he made annual visits to the hill but each time returned without the plates.[20]

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