Joseph Smith's own accounts of the first vision must be viewed with some reservations. No mention of his “First Vision” “”which supposedly took place in 1820″”was ever made in print, until twenty years later when Orson Pratt, a longtime friend...
Brigham Young once stated that Joseph”‘s consent was required for a person to be able to enter into the celestial kingdom of heaven, because Joseph was now reigning there, like God. He also said that Joseph “was a god to us” and that he himself...
