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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ
Yes, and that position is not scriptural (see D&C 107 & Deut. 18). George Albert Smith came down on that in his letter to the minister that expressed his embarassment of the notion that "when are leaders have spoken, the thinking has been done."
Joseph Fielding Smith stomped on such an idea too.
So did Joseph F. Smith, Charles Penrose, and Hugh B. Brown. I'm sure there are others.
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I remember my freshman year at BYU, Reed Benson taught just the opposite. "When the prophet speaks, the thinking has been done."
I am not ready to go against the teachings of Reed Benson.