Why do mormons believe that a latter prophet can overrule an earlier prophet's word?

Question

I would question such practice, because God's prophets haven't been wrong or "trumped" by a latter prophet.

For instance, Smith taught polygamy. Now, they have trumped Peepstone, their founder. I guess he didn't see it "correctly". Blacks were frowned upon in joining the church because they had a totally racist myth about a "debate" in heaven.

The first question: Why do you refer to the Old testament as Old? Because it was a law that prepared the way for the Messiah. Do you know what a testament is?

The first question: Why do you refer to the Old testament as Old? Because it was a law that prepared the way for the Messiah. Do you know what a testament is?

Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Heb 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Heb 9:18 Whereupon neither the first

On August 19th, 1866, Brigham Young strongly admonished his people to continue the practice of plural marriage:

"The only men who become Gods, even the sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy . . . I heard the revelation on polygamy, and I believed it with all my heart . . . 'Do you think that we shall ever be admitted as a State into the Union without denying the principle of polygamy?' If we are not admitted until then, we shall never be admitted." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 11, page 269)

The Mormon church violates the teaching of earlier "prophets", and now, they try to cover it up.

"Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he will perhaps be saved in the Celestial kingdom; but when he gets there he will not find himself in possession of any wife at all. He has had a talent that he has hid up. He will come forward and say, 'Here is that which thou gavest me, I have not wasted it, and here is the one talent,' and he will not enjoy it but it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received, and he will find himself without any wife, and he will remain single forever and ever." (Deseret News, Sept. 17, 1873)

Either this is a true prophet or it's a false prophet. A true prophet's message isn't altered. Either then, or evidently, Mormons think that "God's" laws change over time and God is inconsistent.

Answer 1

The Mormons are hardly unique. Mohamed did much the same when he dismissed the Jews and Christians, although, in fairness the prophets of the Old Testament and Jesus are venerated in Islam..

Answer 2

First of all, you should realize that we do not think that the latter-day prophets overrule the words of earlier prophets. On the contrary, we believe that they are all prophets, and that the message that they have been teaching is consistent for all time.

Secondly, a change in practice does not indicate a change in doctrine. You use the polygamy example. Just because we don't practice polygamy doesn't mean we think that it was wrong for them to do it. We just don't do it.

I have a feeling that this will fall on deaf ears, however, since you seem more interested in telling people that you think Mormonism is wrong than actually learning about it. But, really, all true prophets always teach the same things because they get their information directly from God, and He never changes. I know that Gordon B. Hinckley, Joseph Smith, and other latter-day prophets are just as much prophets as were Moses, Paul, and John the Baptist.

Answer 3

Why do Christians believe that the New Testament can overrule the Old Testament?

Answer 4

First there was moses, then there was jesus, who is to say there can't be another. Its not written down somewhere., God will do what God will do. Not that I agree with the Mormon's that is.