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Does Prophetic Fallibility Solve the LDS Problem?

Mormon Discussions Podcasts – Full Lineup

Bill Reel

Religion & Spirituality

4.3618 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Summary

The LDS Church teaches that its top leaders are prophets, seers, and revelators; men who speak for God and whose guidance deserves trust, obedience, and moral authority. When serious problems arise in Church history, doctrine, or policy, the most common explanation offered is simple: prophets are fallible. But does that explanation actually resolve the issue?… Read More »Does Prophetic Fallibility Solve the LDS Problem?

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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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