Joseph Smith Handwritten Account of the 1832 First Vision wrote:
- for I learned in the scriptures that God was the same yesterday to day and forever
Smith believed in the same eternal God as taught by churches of present-day Christianity. All Christians believed the Father & Son were One God who manifests spiritually & physically. Nothing is said or implied that there are two separate persons appearing together in the vision! Smith agreed that Christian churches taught the correct concept of God but that their hearts were far from him and they had apostatized from the commandments and gospel.
Joseph Smith Handwritten Account of the 1832 First Vision wrote:
- I considered all these things and that that being seeketh such to worshep him as worship him in spirit and in truth
1. “that being”
2. “worship him”
Nothing is said of beings (plural) or them (plural)!
The 1832 First Vision account portrays God in the singular. Period.