What Latter-day Saints believe
A living prophet
The Church is led by a President regarded as prophet, seer and revelator, with two counselors and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
In the Church's words
Latter-day Saints sustain the Church President as a living prophet, and believe God continues to reveal his will through him. Teachings and policies have changed by this route, for example on plural marriage in 1890 and the priesthood in 1978.
9We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
Articles of Faith 1:9 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org
6There is nothing in my teachings to the Church or in those of my associates, during the time specified, which can be reasonably construed to inculcate or encourage polygamy; and when any Elder of the Church has used language which appeared to convey any such teaching, he has been promptly reproved. And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.
Official Declaration 1 · read it at ChurchofJesusChrist.org
What the Bible says
Paul says the church is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. A foundation is laid once. Hebrews contrasts the many ways God spoke in the past with his final word in his Son.
19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God, 20being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
Ephesians 2:19-20 (WEB) · context
1God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.
Hebrews 1:1-2 (WEB) · context
21You may say in your heart, “How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not spoken?” 22When a prophet speaks in Yahweh’s name, if the thing doesn’t follow, nor happen, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 18:21-22 (WEB) · context
Sources
- Articles of Faith 1:9; Official Declaration 1 (churchofjesuschrist.org).