As far as I am concerned, there is very little to discuss here. A very long time ago the CoC walked away from the duly appointed church and authority of God. They diluted the experience that Joseph had into something more to their liking and engaged in re-interpretation of the first vision. They no longer believe the BoM is paramount revelation but a good book of scripture.
By the second century AD some congregations drifted into Docistism or a gnostic belief that Christ did not actually had a body but he "seemed" to have one. So, this revisionism is not new. In time they will end up where all the rest are, diluted in a social exercise with Sunday scripture reading sessions.
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