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This is one of many issues about which the Church has no official position. As President J. Reuben Clark taught under assignment from the First Presidency: | This is one of many issues about which the Church has no official position. As President J. Reuben Clark taught under assignment from the First Presidency: | ||
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:'''Question 14''': Do you believe that the President of the Church, when speaking to the Church in his official capacity is infallible? | :'''Question 14''': Do you believe that the President of the Church, when speaking to the Church in his official capacity is infallible? | ||
:'''Answer''': We do not believe in the infallibility of man. When God reveals anything it is truth, and truth is infallible. No President of the Church has claimed infallibility.<ref>{{IE|author=Charles W. Penrose|article=Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered|date=September 1912|vol=15|num=11}}</ref> | :'''Answer''': We do not believe in the infallibility of man. When God reveals anything it is truth, and truth is infallible. No President of the Church has claimed infallibility.<ref>{{IE|author=Charles W. Penrose|article=Peculiar Questions Briefly Answered|date=September 1912|vol=15|num=11}}</ref> | ||
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J. Reuben Clark |
This is one of many issues about which the Church has no official position. As President J. Reuben Clark taught under assignment from the First Presidency:
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Harold B. Lee |
Harold B. Lee was emphatic that only one person can speak for the Church:
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First Presidency |
This was recently reiterated by the First Presidency (who now approves all statements published on the Church's official website):
In response to a letter "received at the office of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" in 1912, Charles W. Penrose of the First Presidency wrote:
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