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Writing in the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, he sees the entire tree of life vision as a symbolic version of the vision of the future Nephi receives later. When the angel in Nephi's vision explains the symbolism of various parts of Lehi's vision, Nephi juxtaposes the explanations with Nephi's vision of the future.
The presence of trees in the Book of Mormon has been a point of critique by opponents of Mormonism. A proposal linking a stela discovered in Mexico in the 1940s [77] to the vision of the tree of life has been criticized by figures such as Harold W. Hougey, Jerald Tanner, Sandra Tanner, and Latayne Scott. [78]
The tree of life vision is described and discussed in the Book of Mormon. According to the Book of Mormon, the vision was received in a dream by the prophet Lehi , and later in a vision by his son Nephi , who wrote about it in the First Book of Nephi .
Lehi's tree of life vision was among the first subjects of artwork of Book of Mormon content, and around 1874 David Hyrum Smith, a son of Joseph Smith and a leader in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (later renamed to Community of Christ), produced Lehi's Dream, portraying Lehi being led to the tree of life by an ...
This is the Book of Ether. 600 BC–0 The prophet Lehi had a house in Jerusalem. He escaped Babylonian captivity by travelling with his family to the Americas. God revealed to him during the journey the Tree of life vision. The Liahona showed him the way to follow. His descendants, the Nephites and Lamanites, populated the area. 0–33 AD
Nephi claims at the beginning of his writings that those who are faithful will become "mighty" [11] and the mercies of the Lord will be extended to them. According to Noel B. Reynolds, director of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon studies, this statement of Nephi's in 1 Nephi 1:20 is a thesis that he supports about thirty times with different events in his writings.
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints theorist M. Wells Jakeman proposed that the image was a representation of a tree of life vision found in the Book of Mormon. [11] Jakeman's theory was popular for a time among members of the Church of Jesus Christ, but found little support from Church of Jesus Christ apologists. [12]