Didn Joseph believe that God and Christ were one person up until sometime near 1838?
The Book of Mormon has multiple passages that clearly show that Christ and the Father are separate beings, though they are one and together are one eternal God or one Godhead. Thus, there is written evidence from 1829 that official LDS doctrine saw Christ as a real, tangible, resurrected Being separate from the Father and subordinate to Him. Joseph’s 1832 version of the First Vision states that he saw “the Lord.” It does not say he only saw one person, but indicates that he saw Christ. In the later official version, he mentions two personages, but it was primarily Christ that he spoke with. The two accounts differ in the degree of detail, but are not contradictory. I can meet with two people and later mention having met with one of them without being wrong or misleading. Joseph saw Christ. He spoke with Christ. That Christ was introduced by the Father is an important and very sacred detail, but the brief 1832 account focused on Christ. In 1835, another version of the First Vision accou
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