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The Mormons During The Second Great Awakening

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History of the Mormons

Will Pileggi - Due May 14, 2018

During the Second Great Awakening there were many conflicting Christian religions. This bothered some people that there was no longer a definite faith of Christ. According to the Mormon religion, this happened to a young boy named Joseph Smith.
Smith was so confused by the different religions he went out into the woods in prayer. There he claimed to have had a vision of God and Jesus. They supposedly told him that all the religions were wrong, and all their creeds corrupt.
Three years later, Mormons believe Smith received another vision. In this vision the angel Moroni, a Native American angel, told Smith of golden plates buried under a hill near Palmyra.
The plates were revealed when Smith was provided with two reading crystals urim and …show more content…

Martin Harris's wife Lucy doubted Smith greatly. So she made Martin ask to borrow the pages they had translated. When Smith gave the pages to Harris, Lucy hid the pages. Martin went back to tell Joseph that he had lost the pages, then Smith said he could not translate from that particular plate anymore and must translate from the other. So, the basic story will be the same but it won't be word for word.
In 1830 Smith published The Book of Mormon, which contains the story of the lost Israelites who migrated to America in the sixth century BC but were killed in battle in AD 428.
Smith continued to receive revelations telling him to move from New York to Ohio to Missouri and eventually to Illinois where he and his followers built their homes. There Smith and his followers tried to live out an utopian vision of society. They also instituted polygyny. Smith and his brother were arrested in 1844. Later a mob stormed the jail and killed them both. Mormons consider Smith a martyr. Others say he died in a violent

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