Episode 4: Remembering the First Vision (Steven Harper)
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Is God the God of the Methodists or the Presbyterians?
In 1740s America, the most famous presbyterian sermon in american history from 17 forty one was a sermon on mercy of all things. The reverend jonathan edwards says, god abhors you and you deserve to be damned. This gets right to the heart of Joseph smith's second dilemma: is god the god of the presbyterians at joseph time, or of the methodists? Right? You know that he says, i was somewhat inclined to methodism. I had a desire to be united with the methodists. And then in his a manuscript history account, the one except in the Perl great price, there's the line where he
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