By: Jared
LOL. I am hardly an “evangelical,” Mapman. And the quote was not from UTLM, it was from Brigham Young. UTLM is a site that has Brigham Young’s Journal of Discourses readily available. I could have just...
View ArticleBy: JSperry
I find it funny that critics of the LDS Church think that Mormons believe every word that drops from the lips of a prophet are scriptural revelation. We are keenly aware that our prophets are for the...
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Joel, Your wife’s blog is classic Mormon dismissal of facts. She seems to reason “Ignore all the things Brgham Young or any of our prophets may have said in the past that turned out wrong. Listen to...
View ArticleBy: Jettboy
Yes, every Mormon I know would say those sayings are Prophets who are having a day off. Joseph Smith once said, “A prophet is only a prophet when acting as such,” or in other words when they speak with...
View ArticleBy: Wade
In the LDS Church, we do not believe that our leaders are infallible: http://en.fairmormon.org/Mormonism_and_doctrine/Prophets_are_not_infallible
View ArticleBy: Wade
Joseph Smith will sit in judgement of those in this dispensation, just as the Apostles will sit in judgement of the House of Israel: http://en.fairmormon.org/Joseph_Smith/Status_in_LDS_belief Note that...
View ArticleBy: Jared
I see. So good Mormons pick and choose which pronouncements of their prophets are credible. Can you point to a few you have chosen to ignore because you thought the prophet was “speaking as a man”? And...
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So Wade, if the words of President and Prophet Brigham Young aren’t doctrine, how does he differ from anyone with an opinion?
View ArticleBy: Fern
I’ve heard the joke but I can’t remember where, probably not over the pulpit. It may or may not have had St. Peter as the gatekeeper, but it certainly didn’t reference Joseph Smith (I would have...
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“I say now, when they [his discourses] are copied and approved by me they are as good Scripture as is couched in this Bible . . . ” (Journal of Discourses, vol. 13, p. 264; see also p. 95). Brigham...
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