Stop me if I’m wrong...
But the “living mormon prophet” thingy goes like this...
Whatever a living mormon prophet has said AKA “prophecised” is no longer valid when he dies...
His words are then superseded by the new and “living” mormon prophet ???
OKAAAAAAAAAAAY...
Then since Smith is a dead mormon prophet...
And Young, Taylor, Woodruff, Snow, Smith, Grant, Smith, McKay, Smith, Lee, Kimball, Benson, Hunter, Hinckley all superseded the guy before him...
And they are all DEAD...
Starting with Joey Smith (1805-1844), all spoken and written wordsa of the lot of them are now null and void...
And only the current guy, Munson, has anything authentic and binding to say...
Thus the current guy, Munson, can start his own brand new religion...
With a clean slate...
Oh, gollies...
The book of mormon is NOT true...
Well if it was...it aint anymore...
Kinda. In my experience (and I did it too) The LDS will use the past prophets as scripture when i suits their purposes.
However, if it is embarrassing or makes the LDS church look bad, then the pat answer is “well, he was speaking as a man” or “only the current prophet speaks for today”.
But for the rank and file, when conversing amongst themselves, again in my experience, all prophets are created equal.