Prophetic Authority

What's at issue

Prophetic and apostolic teaching that addresses Proclamation-related doctrine — family, marriage, gender, parenting, sexuality, sanctity of life, or the gospel framework (Plan of Salvation, eternal nature) underlying these teachings. Includes direct discussion of "The Family: A Proclamation to the World," the Family Proclamation, or the Proclamation on the Family — its divine origin, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles solemnly proclaiming doctrine, conference talks and apostolic statements defending these doctrines; the principle of how living prophets speak for God on moral matters; defense of revealed authority on family-related teaching. Not every utterance from an apostle qualifies — a conference talk on personal conversion, missionary methodology, church administrative changes, or a Book-of-Mormon archaeology study is NOT prophetic-authority unless the talk substantively engages family/gender/marriage doctrine or defends prophetic authority as such.

Where it appears in the Proclamation

• Paragraph 1 — Why Was The Family Proclamation Given?
• Paragraph 1 — Marriage & Family
• Paragraph 4 — God's Design for Sexual Intimacy & Having Children
• Paragraph 5 — Sanctity of Life
• Paragraph 7 — Marriage, Children & the Roles of Mothers and Fathers
• Paragraph 8 — Warnings About Chastity and Family Breakdown
• Paragraph 9 — A Call to Action

Reading

• Adoption and the Sealing Power
• Exaltation and Those Who Do Not Marry in This Life
• Is It Okay to Have Questions About Parts of the Proclamation?
• Prophets, Personal Revelation, and Honest Questions
• Questions, Distortion, and Discernment
• The Social Arithmetic of Family Breakdown
• What a Sealing Survives
• 3 Sure-fire Ways to Detect Doctrinal Truth
• Am I Falling Behind If I’m Still Single?
• Am I Still Sealed After Divorce?
• Calamities and the Family Proclamation
• Can My Former Spouse’s Choices Cost Me My Eternal Blessings?

Lessons

• Sources of Truth
• Discerning Counterfeits