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This is one of many issues about which the Church has no official position. As President J. Rueben Clark taught: | This is one of many issues about which the Church has no official position. As President J. Rueben Clark taught: | ||
− | :Here we must have in mind—must know—that only the President of the Church, the Presiding High Priest, is sustained as Prophet, Seer, and Revelator for the Church, and he alone has the right to receive revelations for the Church, either new or amendatory, or to give authoritative interpretations of scriptures that shall be binding on the Church.... | + | :''Here we must have in mind—must know—that only the President of the Church, the Presiding High Priest, is sustained as Prophet, Seer, and Revelator for the Church, and he alone has the right to receive revelations for the Church, either new or amendatory, or to give authoritative interpretations of scriptures that shall be binding on the Church....'' |
− | :When any man, except the President of the Church, undertakes to proclaim one unsettled doctrine, as among two or more doctrines in dispute, as the settled doctrine of the Church, we may know that he is not "moved upon by the Holy Ghost," unless he is acting under the direction and by the authority of the President. | + | :''When any man, except the President of the Church, undertakes to proclaim one unsettled doctrine, as among two or more doctrines in dispute, as the settled doctrine of the Church, we may know that he is not "moved upon by the Holy Ghost," unless he is acting under the direction and by the authority of the President.'' |
− | :Of these things we may have a confident assurance without chance for doubt or quibbling. | + | :''Of these things we may have a confident assurance without chance for doubt or quibbling.'' |
+ | :—J. Rueben Clark, Jr. "When Are the Writings or Sermons of Church Leaders Entitled to the Claim of Scripture?" Address to Seminary and Institute Teachers, BYU (7 July 1954); reproduced in ''Church News'' (31 July 1954); also reprinted in ''Dialogue'' 12/2 (Summer 1979): 68–81.] | ||
This was recently reiterated by the Church: | This was recently reiterated by the Church: | ||
− | :Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine. A single statement made by a single leader on a single occasion often represents a personal, though well-considered, opinion, but is not meant to be officially binding for the whole Church. | + | :''Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine. A single statement made by a single leader on a single occasion often represents a personal, though well-considered, opinion, but is not meant to be officially binding for the whole Church.'' |
+ | :—LDS Newsroom, "Approaching Mormon Doctrine," ''lds.org'' (4 May 2007) {{link|url=http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/approaching-mormon-doctrine}}] | ||
(''For further discussion of this principle see:'' FAIR wiki article: [[Fallibility_of_prophets|Official Church doctrine and statements by Church leaders]].) | (''For further discussion of this principle see:'' FAIR wiki article: [[Fallibility_of_prophets|Official Church doctrine and statements by Church leaders]].) |
This is one of many issues about which the Church has no official position. As President J. Rueben Clark taught:
This was recently reiterated by the Church:
(For further discussion of this principle see: FAIR wiki article: Official Church doctrine and statements by Church leaders.)
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