JS uses BOA in a discourse on plurality of gods.

Date
Jun 16, 1844
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Scribed Paraphrase
Reference

Joseph Smith, Discourse, June 16, 1844, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed July 19, 2021

Scribe/Publisher
Thomas Bullock
People
Abraham, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Latter-day Saints
Transcription

then we shall see as we are seen & be as God— & be as the God of his Far.— I want to reason— I learned it by translating the papyrus now in my house— I learned a test. concerning Abraham & he reasoned concerng. the God of Heaven— in order to do that s[ai]d. he— suppose we have two facts that supposes that anor. fact may exist two men on the earth— one wiser that the other— wod. shew that anor. who is wiser than the wisest may exist— intelligences exist one above anor. that there is no end to it— if Abra[ha][m]. reasoned thus—

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