Today's Mormons -- in order to escape the charges they lob @ others -- try to distance themselves from the claims of their Past (& sometimes, present) leaders via weasel words.
What's interesting is that they've always touted having a "living prophet" (where they often cite Amos 3:7) so that they can present-tense revelational guidance given to their "seers." This is supposed to be one of the things they can look at with pride at what "sets them apart" from Christianity...(Of course, they fail to recognize that Jesus Christ HIMSELF...per Hebrews 1:1-2...remains our 'Living Prophet'...a title He no longer has to delegate to somebody else)
Their problem is they are downright embarrassed over MUCH of what their past leaders have said. Straight-arm time!
The thing is...they now claim that no Mormons want to immediately honor the words of their "seers" as direct revelation until a group of their leaders get together...sometimes 40...62...74 years later...and declare as a man-made creed-like council that a certain statement was "scripture" after all.
More hypocrisy...especially since Mormons condemn historic church leader councils that came up with certain creeds!
So it's A-OK for the Mormon church to have a "council" and decide, "Nope...most of these words uttered by this 'prophet' and this 'apostle' wasn't 'scripture'...but this little tidbit was."
Yet when asked time and time again, mormons are silent on what great revelation their "living prophet" has uttered lately.