Frases de Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith, Jr. fue el fundador del Movimiento de los Santos de los Últimos Días y de su principal denominación, La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días.[2]​

Es una figura controvertida que suscita opiniones muy enfrentadas entre sus seguidores y detractores. Por el mormonismo es considerado como un profeta[2]​ escogido por Dios para restaurar la iglesia primitiva de Jesucristo. En 1827 declaró, en lo que los mormones llamarían su «Primera Visión», que un ángel le había mostrado un registro antiguo, escrito en planchas de oro, que describía la visita de Jesús de Nazaret a los antepasados de los indígenas de América, y que le había encomendado la tarea de organizar nuevamente la iglesia cristiana. En 1830, Joseph Smith publicó El Libro de Mormón, el cual, según él, es una traducción al inglés de dicho registro; ese mismo año fundó la congregación religiosa denominada originalmente Iglesia de Cristo.

En medio del ambiente religioso de la primera mitad del siglo XIX en los Estados Unidos muy pronto pudo encontrar algunos seguidores, pero muchos enemigos también.[3]​ Algunos aspectos de las doctrinas presentadas por Smith ofendían a las confesiones cristianas ya establecidas, y otros, como la poligamia o sus intentos de establecer una especie de teocracia en un país que estaba construyendo su identidad nacional sobre la separación entre Iglesia y Estado, resultaban intolerables para un parte importante de la opinión pública estadounidense. Tras su expansión inicial, la persecución contra los miembros y la iglesia mormona se fue intensificando, lo que obligó a Smith a trasladar la sede de su iglesia en varias ocasiones hasta que fue detenido en el estado de Illinois, donde se hallaba en proceso de construir un segundo templo con sus seguidores, entre los que se encontraba un nutrido grupo de conversos europeos, principalmente de Inglaterra.

Smith fue imputado varias veces bajo acusaciones de escándalo público e intentos de establecer una teocracia. En 1844 estimuló la supresión de un periódico que había publicado acusaciones contra él;[cita requerida] poco después fue arrestado en Carthage, acusado de sedición. La cárcel en la que estaba retenido fue asaltada por una multitud con la cara pintada de negro, que logró llegar a su celda y darle muerte a él y a su hermano Hyrum Smith.

Joseph Smith es considerado por sus seguidores como un profeta, vidente y revelador tal como Moisés, Isaías y otros personajes de la Biblia. Su discurso defiende la necesidad de restaurar la iglesia cristiana original, que se habría perdido poco después de la muerte de los doce apóstoles en el proceso que los mormones llaman la Gran Apostasía. Para sus detractores, en cambio, se trataría de una víctima de autoengaño, en el mejor de los casos, o de un embaucador con talento, en el peor.

✵ 23. diciembre 1805 – 27. junio 1844
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“You have to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you”

Joseph Smith, Jr. libro History of the Church

History of the Church, 6:306 (7 April 1844)
1840s, King Follett discourse (1844)
Contexto: You have to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one: from grace to grace FROM EXALTATION TO EXALTATION until you ATTAIN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.

“Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.”

Joseph Smith, Jr. libro Doctrine and Covenants

Doctrine and Covenants, 127:2 (1 September 1842)
1840s

“You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history.”

History of the Church 6:317 (7 April 1844)
1840s, King Follett discourse (1844)
Contexto: You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself.... When I am called by the trump of the archangel and weighed in the balance, you will all know me then.

“Salvation cannot come without revelation; it is in vain for anyone to minister without it. No man is a minister of Jesus Christ without being a Prophet.”

Joseph Smith, Jr. libro Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 160 (2 July 1839)
1830s
Contexto: Salvation cannot come without revelation; it is in vain for anyone to minister without it. No man is a minister of Jesus Christ without being a Prophet. No man can be a minister of Jesus Christ except he has the testimony of Jesus; and this is the spirit of prophecy.

“That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another.”

Joseph Smith, Jr. libro Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 256 (11 April 1842)
1840s
Contexto: That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time He said, 'Thou shalt utterly destroy.' This is the principle on which the government of heaven is conducted— by revelation adapted to the circumstances in which the children of the kingdom are placed. Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof till long after the events transpire.

“Doctrine and Covenants, 135:4 (22 June 1844)”

Smith's comments upon deciding to go to Carthage for incarceration and to face legal prosecution.
1840s

“Element had an existence from the time he [God] had. The pure principles of element are principles which can never be destroyed; they may be organized and re-organized, but not destroyed. They had no beginning, and can have no end.... [T]he mind of man — the immortal spirit. Where did it come from? All learned men and doctors of divinity say that God created it in the beginning; but it is not so: the very idea lessens man in my estimation. I do not believe the doctrine; I know better. Hear it, all ye ends of the world; for God has told me so... We say that God himself is a self-existent being. Who told you so? It is correct enough; but how did it get into your heads? Who told you that man did not exist in like manner upon the same principles? Man does exist upon the same principles. God made a tabernacle and put a spirit into it, and it became a living soul.... The mind or the intelligence which man possesses is [co-eternal] with God himself. I know that my testimony is true... Is it logical to say that the intelligence of spirits is immortal, and yet that it had a beginning? The intelligence of spirits had no beginning, neither will it have an end. That is good logic. That which has a beginning may have an end. There never was a time when there were not spirits; for they are [co-eternal] with our Father in heaven.... I take my ring from my finger and liken it unto the mind of man—the immortal part, because it has no beginning. Suppose you cut it in two; then it has a beginning and an end; but join it again, and it continues one eternal round. So with the spirit of man. As the Lord liveth, if it had a beginning, it will have an end. All the fools and learned and wise men from the beginning of creation, who say that the spirit of man had a beginning, prove that it must have an end; and if that doctrine is true, then the doctrine of annihilation would be true. But if I am right, I might with boldness proclaim from the house-tops that God never had the power to create the spirit of man at all. God himself could not create himself.”

Joseph Smith, Jr. libro History of the Church

History of the Church, 6:308-309 (7 April 1844)
1840s, King Follett discourse (1844)

“A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge.”

Joseph Smith, Jr. libro History of the Church

History of the Church, 4:588 (10 April 1842)
1840s

“I teach the people correct principles and they govern themselves.”

Quoted by John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, 10:57-58 (18 May 1862)
When asked how he governed his followers in Nauvoo, Illinois.
Attributed to Joseph Smith, Jr.

“O Lord my God!”

Joseph Smith, Jr. libro Doctrine and Covenants

Doctrine and Covenants, 135:1 (27 June 1844)
Cried out by Smith as he fell to his death after being shot by a mob.
1840s

“Whenever I see a pretty woman, I have to pray for grace.”

Quoted by Wilhelm Wyl, Joseph Smith, the Prophet, His Family and His Friends (Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing, 1886), 55
Attributed to Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Truth is "Mormonism." God is the author of it.”

Joseph Smith, Jr. libro History of the Church

History of the Church, 3:297 (20 March 1839)
1830s

“If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.”

Joseph Smith, Jr. libro History of the Church

History of the Church, 6:549 (22 June 1844)
Smith's reply when friends accused him of cowardice for intending to leave Illinois to avoid legal prosecution.
1840s

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