Brigham's Adam-God Theory

In my last post I commented that if it turns out that Brigham is wrong, that wouldn't threaten my faith. Here is why. I have often posted on logical fallacies (see here). I also have previously posted on the fact that prophets can be in error and still be prophets (see here). I know of no place in all of scripture that states that prophets are perfect and can make no mistakes. Nathan was wrong as we covered here. Using the strict standard that our enemies use for us, Jesus would have been wrong as explained here.

Now I admit that this Adam-God theory of Brigham's looks looney on the surface. I actually think that Elden Watson's (probably the leading scholar on Brigham Young) explanation is probably best. But prophets are human, they make mistakes. Our position has consistently been that a prophet is only a prophet when he is acting as such. The rest of the time he is a man. To discover that Brigham was a man with flaws doesn't threaten my faith. I never thought he was perfect to begin with.

PS I won't be surprised if I learn that Thomas S. Monson (the living prophet today) isn't perfect either.