Brigham Young

God indeed was kind and merciful Their works had rewarded their devotion and sanctified their faith, and in gladness of heart the Saints sang all his well.

Baby Ada, my grandmother, grew to womanhood and married my grandfather, Brigham Young McMullen.

Now here is the moral.

She never allowed her children to forget that she and her family came across the plains with the Daniel D. MacArthur Handcart Company.

And if that's how you want to read it, then how do you reconcile that reading with statements like when Joseph says, a prophet is only a prophet when he's acting as such.

Or Brigham Young, here's a quote from Brigham Young.

He says, can a prophet be mistaken? I will acknowledge that all the time.

President Oaks said back in 2018, we don't believe in the infallibility of our leaders.

And we could go on with other quotes like that.

Many of our apostles have acknowledged very much that they can make errors, sometimes doctrinal ones, policy issues, whatever, they can have opinions, whatever, right? You know, Brigham Young said, I'm fearful that the saints will settle down in a state of blind self-security and a reckless confidence in their leaders, that kind of thing.

So I'm hearing on the one hand people quoting section 21, verse 4 and 5, saying whatever he says, it's basically as if Jesus says it.

And then I'm hearing on the other hand, the apostles themselves, Joseph, Brigham Young, and modern leaders saying, well, we're not infallible, we're not Jesus, right? It's not that everything we say is as if Jesus said it.