Does Prophetic Fallibility Solve the LDS Problem?
Radio Free Mormon
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 170 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, everybody. Welcome to Mormonism live. Radio Free Mormon. How are you this evening? |
| 0:05.8 | I'm great. How are you, Bell? |
| 0:07.7 | Excellent, excellent. Tonight, folks, we're going to examine what I think is a deep issue. |
| 0:13.9 | Fallibility, specifically prophetic fallibility. And as we talk about it, there are numerous places all around Mormonism that there are problems. |
| 0:24.4 | And at the end of the day, the suggested solution to those problems is that if we would just let the |
| 0:30.5 | prophets not be perfect, allow them to make mistakes, then that would solve essentially the entire issue. |
| 0:38.3 | Give Brother Joseph a break. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.3 | But let's find out if it actually does. |
| 0:44.3 | And so with that, let's jump into the slideshow here. |
| 0:46.3 | Let me put this up on the screen. |
| 0:48.3 | So there's our thumbnail, fallible or flawed with Brigham and Russell Nelson there in the background, |
| 0:55.4 | Joseph at the forefront with lots of cracks. |
| 0:58.7 | So let's talk about the problem, what the church offers as the solution, being prophetic |
| 1:03.9 | fallibility. |
| 1:05.1 | And then we'll go into the issues and see if this, in fact, does solve it. |
| 1:09.9 | What I like about what you've done here, Bill, |
| 1:11.7 | and maybe you'll let us know how it was you came up with this idea, |
| 1:14.2 | because I think it's really interesting. |
| 1:15.8 | It's not to look at fallibility as one thing, |
| 1:19.0 | but to look at it in a whole bunch of component parts |
| 1:22.4 | or categories that fall under the idea of fallibility, |
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