Bob Loblaw wrote:Stormy Waters wrote:How odd that they didn't qualify that to their listeners. It's almost as if they didn't care if their listeners thought they were speaking as prophets.
Thank God we have bureaucrats in the Correlation department to tell us when what the prophets say is doctrine, and when it isn't.
It is a shame they didn't have correlation back then because Brigham Young seems to have been under the false impression that he was always speaking as a prophet.
"I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom...I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually." (Journal of Discourses, vol. 13, p. 95).
Too bad there wasn't someone there to tell him some of the things he said weren't "official doctrine."