Mormonism and doctrine/Establishing new doctrine

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Establishing new Mormon doctrine

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• Procedures to establish or modify Mormon doctrine
• Church publications as doctrine

Procedures to establish or modify Mormon doctrine

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• "Approaching Mormon Doctrine," LDS Newsroom (May 2007): "Not every statement made by a Church leader, past or present, necessarily constitutes doctrine"
• Question: How does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints establish new doctrine?
• Question: Is "Mormon doctrine" constantly changing?

Church publications as doctrine

Summary: Are Church publications considered doctrine? It is claimed that anything that is, or ever was, officially published by the Church at any time ought to represent doctrine, thus define what Latter-day Saints really believe. However, just as Brigham Young taught principles that applied to the 19th-century saints, modern prophets teach us what we need for our particular time.

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• Question: Is everything that is published by the Church considered doctrine?
• Question: Are some publications misrepresented as "official" publications of the Church?