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What do you mean?! Isn't he a "special witness of christ"? Are you telling me that he a J-dawg don't hang out and drink postum on Thursday mornings?

I was thinking the same, the prophet had a face to face weekly with the Lord.

Googled the idea of this conference I came up with this
http://www.mormonthink.com/responses/as-if-they-were-speaking-for-god.htm

This link is double speak, what you think it's the fact is contradict in the next statement.

If you can make sense of this, please explain uhh simple language, thank you.

I wonder how many Mormons today still believe that the President of the Church has weekly meetings (perhaps in an upper room in the Salt Lake Temple) with Jesus.

Since the Church is named "The Church of Jesus Christ ...," I think Jesus would have to be regarded as the true head of the Church, with the President/Prophet being his mouthpiece. So it seems to me that the President/Prophet meeting regularly with Jesus would be essential, just as Jesus met personally with Joseph Smith in the Sacred Grove to get the ball rolling for the restoration of his Church.

It's my understanding that the myth of the top 15 meeting with Jesus started in the early days of the Salt Lake Temple. Apostle J. Golden Kimball slipped on the stairs while leaving the upper room of the temple. He landed hard on his tail bone and shouted "Oh Jesus!" .
The other brethren didn't know what had happened but didn't want to feel left out so they spread that myth of regular meetings with the Lord.

I remember a guy I knew when I was at USU who was convinced the prophet had a daily meeting with Christ. Christ would present the prophet with his daily itinerary and script for each day. This guy truly believed that every word that came out of the prophets mouth was scripted by Christ himself.

Oh, yes he does. In his dreams!

I never believed it to begin with.

Not in the least. During one of my many conversations with Jesus (via email) some years ago, he informed me that he had "never heard of Mormons".

refer to Profile of a Prophet for the truth/correct, accurate context

https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/hugh-b-brown_profile-of-a-prophet/

If an apostle did meet with Jesus, I think he’d come away with two black eyes and some missing teeth.

I have a question for you, anybody. Why do you not ever answer your own questions?

Just wondering.

When I asked them the one question, the biggest question of my life, I was just berated and told they didn't have time for a lowly person like me. That was really eye opening.

Yes indeed.

They're so self-important I don't think they have time for anything they haven't already budgeted into their heavily scheduled PR appointment books for their day.

That's how they got to where they are. By self-promotion and stepping over the bodies of those they cast aside along the way to get where they're at.

Talk with God? What's that to them? Probably not worth the paper it's printed on.

I never believed that Mormon prophets talked with Jesus.

My close relative, now deceased, was in the First Presidency. He always made it very clear to everyone, that he and the others, even the President, NEVER spoke to Christ, never saw Christ. He would get angry, when someone would mention rumors that the church President met regularly with Jesus in the upper rooms of the Salt Lake Temple. This was his pet peeve. I was with him, when someone asked him the question, "What is it like to talk face-to-face with Jesus." It was one of the few times I saw him get angry. (He was a lovely human being. He didn't agree with the way the church was heading into fundamentalism, and he would be considered a "liberal" Mormon today.)

Fundamentalism is the only way the church can survive in the Information Age. It may be distasteful, but there’s a business empire to run. Mormon, mammon, kinda sounds the same.

I was disappointed Jesus didn't talk with me!

I realized the claims of LDS prophets were misleading in the way they implied Jesus was physically at their temple meetings. It dawned on me that the Bible prophets did the same thing. They didn't see God either. Their contact always required some kind of magic behind-the-curtain communication while they were alone. How convenient.

This was the way God communicated? With prophets? That was the best He could do? Give me break. Abraham seemed psychotic like the other people who try to kill their kids because God said so.

The Bible is a tough act to follow. If you're going to be a prophet nowadays, you have to come up with ambiguous ways to claim God talks to you. Spiritual eyes. In the spirit. Feelings.

Lame.