The notion that modern-day prophets are infallible specimens of virtue and perfection is neither scriptural nor reasonable. They are simply ordinary women and men who have accepted the call and are striving to return Home, as we all are. Equally unreasonable is a view of published revelation as infallible, unerring transmission of the Divine voice. A simplistic notion of modern prophets as stenographers of Deity is not what the prophetic tradition, ancient or modern, suggests.

