Dig this, a great example of not answering the question and basically ignoring it!

Q: "Does belief in prophets’ fallibility vis-à-vis failed prophecies and doctrine like the Mark of Cain, Blood Atonement, and Adam was God - really resolve those issues for Mormons?"

A: "As almost always, the question is misworded and needs to be fixed before answering it.

What is a prophecy?

A prophecy is the disclosing by a prophet of a revelation about future events given to him, usually (not always) to be shared with the world.

Under this definition: The mark of Cain is not a prophecy, the Blood Atonement is not a prophecy and the Adam-God theory is not a prophecy. All of them are principles of doctrine related to past events. Therefore, they are not and cannot be false prophecies. They are false doctrines, period."


Aren't apologists great!?

Thankfully, the folks at FAIR have compiled an entire page of quotes where the prophets have claimed to be merely humans with a prophetic calling.

It appears the standard for testing when the prophet is actually functioning as a prophet is to wait, perhaps as long as a century, to see if what was taught or predicted has withstood the test of time. If it has, it was prophetic. If it hasn't, he was just speaking as a man.

Not sure how that makes the Mormon prophet any different from that weird old uncle some of us only see at Thanksgiving who constantly predicted wars and famines, but okay.

https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Mormonism_and_doctrine/Prophets_are_not_infallible/Quotations