Hinckley says it boils down to one thing: The First Vision????

[_Boaz & Lidia]

Two things from his 2002 Conference talk as the mouth piece of the Lord™ to the people.

First, the First Vision®. Here is what the only True Prophet™ on earth states about it:

It either occurred or it did not occur. If it did not then this work is a FRAUD.

Someone call FARMS™, tell em to hang up the shovels..YEP! stop digging for horse bones and steel swords.
Call up the papyrus theorists, stop making up theories(a.k.a. plausible excuses) on why the translations do not match.
Call the MA&DHouse™ and tell them no more threads allowed about ANYTHING but the validity of the First Vision®

You see, they all need to focus on proving the First Vision® actually occurred as recorded in the 1838 version.

Again from Flash Gordo himself:

It either occurred or it did not occur. If it did not then this work is a FRAUD.

Then he proceeds to make a complete anti Christian of himself:
Nothing in all of recorded Christianity compares to the First Vision® story. NOTHING.

Oh yeah, that is gonna win over Christian converts!

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejRa9tiuQoY

This is back when he still had all of his colon, but only half of his brain!

[_Infymus]

Which version of the so-called First Vision?

1834? 1854? 1855? 1857? 1863? 1869?

If Joseph had the FV in 1920, why did it take 7 revisions and 22 years to publish it?

If Joseph saw God and Jesus Christ in 1820, why did he again pray in 1823 to find out if a supreme being existed?

Why does the current official FV contradict Joseph's first handwritten FV from 1832?

If God and Jesus Christ told Joseph not to join any other cults, why did he join the Methodists in 1828 - 8 years later?

When Joseph wrote the so-called HOTC in 1835, why didn't he mention the current official FV account? He wrote in 1835 that his FIRST spiritual experience was in 1823 after a religious revival in Palmyra, and that he had prayed by his bed in 1823 to see if God existed and was visited by a messenger named Nephi who forgave him of his sins.

If Joseph Smith's First Vision was the most important historical event since the atonement, then why didn't early church members know about it?

The Hinkster is right. The whole thing is a fraud.