The Mormon Version of Infallibility

The Mormon Version of Infallibility - Religion Dispatches

What Mormons have instead of infallibility is “instrayability,” a coinage by Stevens to sum up the belief that “the prophet can never lead the church astray.”

Infallibility – By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog

Infallibility only applies if two conditions are present. First the teaching has to be ex cathedra (“from the chair”), spoken in his role as the church's ...

What does the LDS Church teach about infallibility? - Quora

Based on what I've learned of this doctrine from sources published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, no mortal is infallible.

The Fallibility of Infallibility - Mormon Matters

Latter-day Saints do not profess a belief in the infallibility of their leaders. President James E. Faust wrote this, “We make no claim of ...

"the Mormon Version Of Infallibility" (Holly Welker) - General ...

The topics of "blind obedience" and "prophetic infallibility" come up often, and for years I've tried to adequately explain the problems I see with what the ...

What does the LDS Church teach about infallibility?

Despite the benefits of an infallible path of communication between God and man, the LDS Church believes no one but Jesus Christ has been or ...

former prophets are fallible, current prophets are infallible : r/mormon

Church members are not allowed to use personal revelation to determine when the current prophet is wrong, as the church explicitly teaches that ...

In practice, many Mormons take their leaders' implied infallibility more seriously than Catholics take the pope's express infallibility. While ...

President Nelson and the Problem of Prophetic Infallibility

There is no “problem” with LDS prophetic infallibility because history plainly shows LDS prophets are not infallible. The problem is that LDS ...

Mormon Quotes on the Infallibility of Prophets - MormonThink

“A prophet is wonderful because he sometimes speaks for the Lord. This occurs on certain occasions when the Lord wills it. On other occasions, he speaks for ...

Prophetic Infallibility: Mormonism Live 102 - Reddit

According to Jim, the greatest problem is the false teaching and expectation that Mormon leaders are infallible or doctrinally inerrant (to use ...

Flexible Dogmatism: The Mormon Position on Infallibility

But the Church leadership is essentially held to be infallible in major decisions about what the Church should do at a given moment in time.

Fallibility of prophets - Fair Latter-day Saints

If the Book of Mormon is true, then Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. It also means we have a prophet today. Will they lead us astray? Is that statement even ...

Bible, Inerrancy of - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Latter-day Saints believe the Bible is the word of God. However, we believe when it was compiled and translated, errors entered the text.

Mormon Prophets Are Not Perfect

This sounds like prophetic infallibility to me. The LDS prophets are stand-ins for Jesus Christ. They cannot err in their capacity as prophets ...

Have you heard the joke about Mormons, Catholics and infallible ...

We were once Mormons and there was a classic joke. “Catholics say the pope is infallible but don't really believe it; Mormons say the ...

Infallibility Complex - wasmormon.org

It is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. Saying the mormon church has a god ...

Living with Fallibility - Fair Latter-day Saints

Mormons have a joke that is so old it has become a cliché: Catholic doctrine is that the pope is infallible, but they don't believe it; Mormon ...

Mormon Version of Infallibility | RealClearReligion

Mormon Version of Infallibility. Holly Welker, Religion Dispatches March 25, 2014. Patricia Miller's recent RD posts critiquing the “Francis Effect” and ...

The Infallibility of the Bible, Book of Mormon, other Scripture and the ...

One of the key components to LDS theology is that of scripture being an open canon. According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...