So far so good; until a Living Prophet® decides to countermand something that WW taught or believed.
So far so good; until a Living Prophet® decides to countermand something that WW taught or believed. [Elsie]
True...As Lds "prophet" Ezra Taft Benson said...a "living prophet" trumps the dead ones...hence...Lds show their true colors not only to readily dismissing the Bible by whim of a current "prophet" -- but even their own add-on "scriptures."
That's why when BYU prof - author Bob Millet defines the Lds standard works as a "standard" to measure all doctrine...that's all a bunch of crock & hooey...
Why? Exactly because of what Elz mentions here: The "standard" becomes, in Mormonism, ANYTHING -- and I mean ANYTHING that the current "living Mormon 'prophet'" declares!
Hence...Elz' comment reminds me of a 1960s survey of Mormons about how many would jump back into polygamy if the Mormon "prophet" told them to do it:
"Another survey taken in the 1960s found that not only do contemporary church members overwhelmingly disapprove of polygamy but only two in five said they would enter the principle if commanded by the prophets." [B. Carmon Hardy, Solemn Covenant, University of Illinois Press, p. 339, citing survey published in 1963 by John R. Christiansen, "Contemporary Mormons' Attitudes Toward Polygamous Practices," Journal of Marriage and Family 25 (May 1963): pp. 167-170)].
Now I don't know about you -- but 40% who said "they would enter the principle if commanded by the prophets" in 1963 is pretty high!
Imagine that, everybody!
2 of 5 of your Mormon neighbors would expand their bedrooms in their homes come the edict from the Mormon "prophet"...
Of the other 3 of 5 of your Mormon neighbors, 2 of them are probably "jack Mormons" and don't pay attention much to what the "living prophet" says, anymore...
The other 20% are households ruled by a wife who would put a "No Trespassing" sign on their bedroom door (or additional husbandly bedroom doors in their home)