[guitarplayer1953]

Hinckley again: As a Church we have critics, many of them. They say we do not believe in the traditional Christ of Christianity. There is some substance to what they say. Our faith, our knowledge is not based on ancient tradition, the creeds which came of a finite understanding and out of the almost infinite discussions of men trying to arrive at a definition of the risen Christ. Our faith, our knowledge comes of the witness of a prophet in this dispensation who saw before him the great God of the universe and His Beloved Son, the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. ("We Look to Christ", from April 2002 General Conference.)

NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD AND LIVED SO THIS IS A LIE!

[Colofornian]

NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD AND LIVED SO THIS IS A LIE!

Indeed! Smith had no "priesthood" -- no Mormon or Christian baptism @ the time He later (as in MUCH later) claimed to see God...

In what later became the "official" version of this "vision," note Smith NEVER even labels the entities as either "God" or "Jesus"; they remain unnamed:

v. 16
Felt
Saw a pillar of light
v. 17
“the light”
“two Personages” brightness & glory defy all description
a son of the other
v. 18: “the Personages”
v. 19 “the Personage”
v. 20: “the light”

v. 24 “a light” “heard a voice”
v. 25 “a light” "two Personages”