Wilford Woodruff on Prophecy

Wilford Woodruff

Wilford Woodruff

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He is a prophet, I am a prophet, you are, and anybody is a prophet who has the testimony of Jesus Christ, for that is the spirit of prophecy.

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Journal of Discourses, vol 13, page 165, Liverpool, England: Latter-day Saints’ Book Depot, 1871

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God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end. It is just so with us.

If there was a point where man in his progression could not proceed any further, the very idea would throw a gloom over every intelligent and reflecting mind. God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end. It is just so with us.

President Young asked Elder Orson Pratt what he thought of his preaching that intelligent beings would continue to learn to all eternity. Pratt said that he believed the Gods had a knowledge at the present time of every thing that ever did exist to the endless ages of all eternity. . . . President Young remarked that . . . it was not true: it was false doctrine, for the Gods and all intelligent beings would never cease to learn.