God Reveals His Will in Our Day through Prophets, Just as He Has Done in the Past
Doctrine and Covenants 20:11–12
11 . . . [T]he holy scriptures are true, and . . . God does inspire men and call them to his holy work in this age and generation, as well as in generations of old;
12 Thereby showing that he is the same God yesterday, today, and forever. Amen.
Elder James E. Talmage wrote:
“We believe that God is as willing today as He ever has been to reveal His mind and will to man, and that He does so through His appointed servants—prophets, seers, and revelators—invested through ordination with the authority of the Holy Priesthood. We rely therefore on the teachings of the living oracles of God as of equal validity with the doctrines of the written word.”
(The Articles of Faith, 12th ed. [1924], 7.)
