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"Stormprepper says the Mormon church has 15 active prophets -- unless/until one of them dies...(he is referencing the Lds "Quorum of 12 'apostles'" + the three in the First Presidency.)"

"But what does the Mormon Church itself say about the number of Lds "prophets" who at any given time have the authority to give revelations for the church?"

This is worthy of some kind of epic straw man award. Notice I didn't say anything about "revelations for the church". Colofornian inserts that herself then compares that with what I said above. It's comparing apples and bowling balls.

The Prophet of the Church or President of Church is authorized to received revelation for the whole Church. The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are authorized as prophets, meaning they can prophesy as the Lord wants them too. But it will not be revelation that pertains to the Church as a whole. They are prophets, seers, and revelators as the Lord requires of them.

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This is worthy of some kind of epic straw man award. Notice I didn't say anything about "revelations for the church". Colofornian inserts that herself then compares that with what I said above. It's comparing apples and bowling balls. The Prophet of the Church or President of Church is authorized to received revelation for the whole Church. The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are authorized as prophets, meaning they can prophesy as the Lord wants them too. But it will not be revelation that pertains to the Church as a whole. They are prophets, seers, and revelators as the Lord requires of them.

Alright, if you're going to waffle about on the # of prophets belonging to the church ya wanna join, let's go back to your comment in post #260: Rev 11 clearly says there will be TWO prophets in the last days, I want to join the Church they belong to, can you point it out? Thanks!

So, here ya boast about your 15-prophesy-member "church" and you wanna suddenly join in the last of the latter days a "2-prophesy-member" church eh? Why don't ya wanna join that 15-prophesy-member church? (Could it be because it's "missing in action" in Revelation?)

This is worthy of some kind of epic straw man award. Notice I didn't say anything about "revelations for the church". Colofornian inserts that herself then compares that with what I said above. It's comparing apples and bowling balls. The Prophet of the Church or President of Church is authorized to received revelation for the whole Church. The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are authorized as prophets, meaning they can prophesy as the Lord wants them too. But it will not be revelation that pertains to the Church as a whole. They are prophets, seers, and revelators as the Lord requires of them.

So, these "Twelve" are "prophets" , who can "prophesy" as the Lord wants them to and the one "Prophet/President of the Church" can also prophesy as the Lord wants him to. The difference you say is like "comparing apples to bowling balls" is that the President can receive for the whole church and the others can prophesy as the Lord wants them to just that it won't ever be for the "whole church" cuz that's the President's job? What happens when one of the Twelve gets something that IS relevant for the whole church, does he have to tell the Lord he got a wrong number and go tell it to the prez instead? And why would a "prophecy" be only for a select group or individual and it not be something the whole church also needs to hear or know about?

Sounds more like apples and apples to me.

The Prophet of the Church or President of Church is authorized to received revelation for the whole Church. The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are authorized as prophets, meaning they can prophesy as the Lord wants them too. But it will not be revelation that pertains to the Church as a whole. They are prophets, seers, and revelators as the Lord requires of them.

And they are VERY smart!!

NO one can fool THEM!!!!

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