Infallibility?

The Mormons are deeply concerned only with what they accept as scripture.  Non-Mormons, raised in the tradition of the infallible Bible, are unable to conceive of a man’s being a prophet and at the same time a fallible mortal. They persist in thinking  .  .  .  that the discovery of any slightest flaw in Joseph Smith’s character or his work must necessarily bring the whole structure of Mormonism down in ruins.

It isn’t that way at all.

Hugh W. Nibley

Of course, things sometimes become muddled in practice.  The joke goes this way:  “Catholicism teaches that the pope is infallible, but no Catholic really believes it.  Mormonism teaches that the apostles are fallible, but no Mormon really believes it.”

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