Mormons, Why does the LDS film, Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration give false i

Examples,

The real history was not told regarding heeling's, Smith's happy monogamous marriage, (he had 34 wives while alive) 33 or so more women sealed to him after his death!
Many of his wives went on to marry Brigham Young after Smiths death.

No mention of the "new and everlasting covenant." (which was the multiple sea lings of the time)

The movie shows parental encouragement of Emma's marriage when the reality is they were furious at the elopement and that Joseph had stolen her away.

The information about the one of many accounts of his "First Vision" are not told about.
The movie paints the Mormons as the innocent victims while leaving out vital information relieving otherwise.

4 months prior to the "extermination order" Mormon leaders such as Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Hyde, and Jedediah M. Grant condemned that a speech that Sydney Rigdon's GAVE as a foolish and overly aggressive statement of Mormon rights that unnecessarily provoked anti-Mormon violence. "Elder Rigdon was the prime cause of our troubles in Missouri, by his fourth of July oration," Young said. ("Elder Rigdon's Trial," Times and Seasons 5:667)...

Rigdon's warnings therefore surprised and alarmed the Missouri settlers, who interpreted the speech as an open, defiant declaration of Mormon intentions to set themselves outside the law.
The details of the events were deliberately falsified in the movie.

Smith family's involvement in occult and magical glass looking and dividing rods, as they were only portrayed as an innocent and devout Christian family.


This movie doesn't BEGIN to tell me the truth about what Joseph Smith was really like, or what really happened to him and the Mormons. Why not?

Because you are misinformed it is truthful

Because the Mormons would then have to admit that they are all fools for following such a fool in the first place. They don't want to learn the actual history, just what their cult told them.

The issues you highlighted are, unfortunately, quite common in the LDS church's interpretation and teaching of its own history. For some reason they feel the need to play the victim in every possible scenario regardless of whether or not they were directly responsible for their own hardships.

Sydney Rigdon compared the LDS church to the Israelites under Moses and the people of Missouri to the Canaanites (who were exterminated by the Israelites) but most Mormons still act like the Boggs order was pure bigotry. Other leaders, in addition to Rigdon, made very persuasive speeches that clearly established the growing group of LDS settlers as a potential threat to every one else in the area and the state of Missouri's response was consistent with frontier justice (definitely harsh but it was a potential kill or be killed situation).

Thomas B Marsh (President of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles) even wrote a letter where he said the following about Joseph Smith:

"I have heard the prophet say that he should yet tread down his enemies & walk over their dead bodies; that if he was not let alone he would be a second Mahamet to the generations, & that he would make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic ocean."

In the words of Joseph smith Jr, he defended himself by saying, there are many things he was accused of, which never happened. every time he was taken to court, at the law, he was released for lack of evidence or being found not guilty.
He was sealed to many wives, some have taught that it was a different version of sealing, not that he had SEX with them. As for BY having sex with Josephs wives after he died. Even Christians are said that marriage is until DEATH and many wives seek other husbands.
The Mormons dint try to hide the truth, not specifically. i have read history books that do explain things that happened even in an undesirable light. But, one thing i DO KNOW, Christianity, both protestants and catholic popes alike, have just as much allegations of corruption among its leaders and is found violation of Gods commands as people of antimony activists do.
i know that reading many antimony literature, that MOST allegation are discovered to be NOT true. i even posted a few pamphlets on line to give an example. First, there are methods used by christian activists that propose theories which are claimed to be true, and then while not proving their theory that condemn the whole Mormonism theology on a basis of a theory. while at the same time calling it "a truth". Some pamphlets actually LIE outright, while others never actually read the sources which are cited in their own pamphlet.

i joined this church after being a born again christian for 3 or 4 years. because of personal revelation. i was literally visited by what i called the spirit of revelation. i beheld several visions and had a conversation with the spirit. i didn't even know the church existed. it took me TEN years of diligent study after that to confirm every doctrine as truth.
it took me 20 years to come to understand that christianity fulfills Galatian 1:6-9. to understand the basics of christian history.

it only took a minute to SEE Jesus and i learned more in that one minute than in my entire life.

Telling the whole truth about Joseph Smith and the early Mormons continues to be a problem for gaining credibility for anyone who's the least bit acquainted with the history of the LDS/Mormon movement.

LDS historians that tell the truth in a way that makes their claim to truth look suspicious are excommunicated. This fact has been established many times.

Even Mormons themselves want real history as revealed in a recent survey conducted with faithful Mormons. In fact, the number one source of historical information for Mormons is a series of novels. That's right, a series of fiction books that supposedly drew heavily from history, yet real historians recognize little truth in them.

But why let the truth stand in the way of a good story?

As a Mormon, I assumed that I was being told the truth only to find out that I was fed stories that bore little resemblance to reality. The First Vision is the worst. There was no revival on or near 1820. None of Smith's inner circle publicly taught or agreed with the story. Smith was never persecuted during the 1820's for telling anyone anything about seeing God. He was jailed for running a con.