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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An official website of the LDS Church calls the First Vision "the greatest event in world history since the birth, ministry, and resurrection of Jesus Christ."<ref>{{citation |url=http://josephsmith.net/article/the-first-vision |title=The First Vision |date=9 September 2013 |work=JosephSmith.net |publisher=LDS Church }}</ref> In 1998, [[President of the Church (LDS Church)|church president]] [[Gordon B. Hinckley]] declared,</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>An official website of the LDS Church calls the First Vision "the greatest event in world history since the birth, ministry, and resurrection of Jesus Christ."<ref>{{citation |url=http://josephsmith.net/article/the-first-vision |title=The First Vision |date=9 September 2013 |work=JosephSmith.net |publisher=LDS Church }}</ref> In 1998, [[President of the Church (LDS Church)|church president]] [[Gordon B. Hinckley]] declared,</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>Our entire case as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests on the validity of this glorious First Vision. It was the parting of the curtain to open this, the dispensation of the fullness of times. Nothing on which we base our doctrine, nothing we teach, nothing we live by is of greater importance than this initial declaration. I submit that if Joseph Smith talked with God the Father and His Beloved Son, then all else of which he spoke is true. This is the hinge on which turns the gate that leads to the path of salvation and eternal life.<ref>{{Citation | title=What Are People Asking about Us? |author-link=Gordon B. Hinkley |first1=Gordon B. |last1=Hinkley |journal=Ensign |date=November 1998 |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1998/11/what-are-people-asking-about-us |access-date=2012-04-26 }}</ref></blockquote> In 1961, Hinckley had gone further: "Either Joseph Smith talked with the Father and the Son or he did not. If he did not, we are engaged in a blasphemy."<ref>''[[Improvement Era]]'' (December 1961) p. 907. [[David O. McKay]], the ninth church president, also declared the First Vision to be the foundation of the faith. David O. McKay, ''Gospel Ideals'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1951) p. 19.</ref> Likewise, in a January 2007 interview conducted for the PBS documentary ''[[The Mormons (film)|The Mormons]]'', Hinckley said of the First Vision, "it's either true or false. If it's false, we're engaged in a great fraud. If it's true, it's the most important thing in the world .... That's our claim. That's where we stand, and that's where we fall, if we fall. But we don't. We just stand secure in that faith."<ref>({{citation |contribution-url=https://www.pbs.org/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mormons</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interviews</del>/hinckley<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.html </del>|contribution=Interview: Gordon B. Hinckley |title=The Mormons |author=''[[Frontline (US TV series)|Frontline]]'' and ''[[American Experience]]'' |editor=[[Helen Whitney]] |publisher=[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]|title-link=The Mormons (film) }}. The full quotation mentions the ultimate reality of Moroni and the Book of Mormon translated from the plates: "Well, it's either true or false. If it's false, we're engaged in a great fraud. If it's true, it's the most important thing in the world. Now, that's the whole picture. It is either right or wrong, true or false, fraudulent or true. And that's exactly where we stand, with a conviction in our hearts that it is true: that Joseph went into the [Sacred] Grove; that he saw the Father and the Son; that he talked with them; that Moroni came; that the Book of Mormon was translated from the plates; that the priesthood was restored by those who held it anciently. That's our claim. That's where we stand, and that's where we fall, if we fall. But we don't. We just stand secure in that faith.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>Our entire case as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints rests on the validity of this glorious First Vision. It was the parting of the curtain to open this, the dispensation of the fullness of times. Nothing on which we base our doctrine, nothing we teach, nothing we live by is of greater importance than this initial declaration. I submit that if Joseph Smith talked with God the Father and His Beloved Son, then all else of which he spoke is true. This is the hinge on which turns the gate that leads to the path of salvation and eternal life.<ref>{{Citation | title=What Are People Asking about Us? |author-link=Gordon B. Hinkley |first1=Gordon B. |last1=Hinkley |journal=Ensign |date=November 1998 |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1998/11/what-are-people-asking-about-us |access-date=2012-04-26 }}</ref></blockquote> In 1961, Hinckley had gone further: "Either Joseph Smith talked with the Father and the Son or he did not. If he did not, we are engaged in a blasphemy."<ref>''[[Improvement Era]]'' (December 1961) p. 907. [[David O. McKay]], the ninth church president, also declared the First Vision to be the foundation of the faith. David O. McKay, ''Gospel Ideals'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1951) p. 19.</ref> Likewise, in a January 2007 interview conducted for the PBS documentary ''[[The Mormons (film)|The Mormons]]'', Hinckley said of the First Vision, "it's either true or false. If it's false, we're engaged in a great fraud. If it's true, it's the most important thing in the world .... That's our claim. That's where we stand, and that's where we fall, if we fall. But we don't. We just stand secure in that faith."<ref>({{citation |contribution-url=https://www.pbs.org/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wgbh/americanexperience</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">features</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mormons-</ins>hinckley<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/ </ins>|contribution=Interview: Gordon B. Hinckley |title=The Mormons |author=''[[Frontline (US TV series)|Frontline]]'' and ''[[American Experience]]'' |editor=[[Helen Whitney]] |publisher=[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]|title-link=The Mormons (film) }}. The full quotation mentions the ultimate reality of Moroni and the Book of Mormon translated from the plates: "Well, it's either true or false. If it's false, we're engaged in a great fraud. If it's true, it's the most important thing in the world. Now, that's the whole picture. It is either right or wrong, true or false, fraudulent or true. And that's exactly where we stand, with a conviction in our hearts that it is true: that Joseph went into the [Sacred] Grove; that he saw the Father and the Son; that he talked with them; that Moroni came; that the Book of Mormon was translated from the plates; that the priesthood was restored by those who held it anciently. That's our claim. That's where we stand, and that's where we fall, if we fall. But we don't. We just stand secure in that faith.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A 2012 Pew Research survey of self-identified members of the LDS Church asked how important believing that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ was to being a "good Mormon." 80% responded that it was essential, 13% responded that it was important but not essential, and 6% responded that it was either not too, or not at all essential.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/01/Mormons-in-America.pdf|title=Gregory Smith, "Mormons in America: Certain in Their Beliefs, Uncertain of Their Place in Society" Pew Research Center, page 13}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A 2012 Pew Research survey of self-identified members of the LDS Church asked how important believing that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ was to being a "good Mormon." 80% responded that it was essential, 13% responded that it was important but not essential, and 6% responded that it was either not too, or not at all essential.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2012/01/Mormons-in-America.pdf|title=Gregory Smith, "Mormons in America: Certain in Their Beliefs, Uncertain of Their Place in Society" Pew Research Center, page 13}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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