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Since even a Mormon seems to have issues with the varying visions, you may want to also inform the lurkers that while your “links” will have the official version, even internally there is debate about it.

Which leads one to ask, if they are lurking, how come a prophet of god can't keep his own story straight and why would I follow that guy?

BTW an interesting sight that Zilla brings us lurkers and friends, Think Mormon.

Read the about page here:

http://www.mormonthink.com/whoarewe.htm

Seems the “issues” PD keeps saying are “answered” and old and tired have gotten their sleep and are wide awake even for those still going through the motions of being LDS for familiar or social reasons...

Not that I want to say the PD is "misrepresenting" things (really since he basically says nothing that is a "given")

But a bunch of Mormons don't follow all the history and such that the LDS higher ups swear by? Hum...

Yup, if the current push to appear just another more accurate form of Christianity continues, even the Lorenzo Snow couplet will get tossed and Mormons will just shift to defending the exclusion. Gordon B. HInckley hinted that the Snow couplet (asserting that 'as We are now, the mormon god once was, and as the mormon god is, we may become', know by non-Mormons as the heresies that god the Father was once a mana nd that mormons can become gods, too) is about to get repudiated, when he stated 'unequivocally' that he wasn't sure they teach that but he was familiar with the philosophy of it, during a Time Magazine interview a couple of years before his death. Of course, when the 1994 General Conference occurred, Hinckley knew the couplet so wee that he affirmed it to the entire of mormondom:

From the 1994 LDS Conference report, Hinckley addressing the conference:
“On the other hand, the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon (see Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp. 342-62) and emphasized by President Lorenzo Snow. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become! (See The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, comp. Clyde J. Williams, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1984, p. 1)