Leonard J. Arrington records a dispute between Church leaders concerning Ezra Taft Benson's "Fourteen Fundamentals" talk; President Kimball taught that the Lord did not always speak to him and therefore "it was Spencer Kimball talking, not the Lord."
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Leonard J. Arrington, Journal, June 17, 1980, in Confessions of a Mormon Historian: The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1999, ed. Gary James Bergera, 3 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2018), 3:62
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George also said that he had learned that President Kimball in particular and the First Presidency in general were very angry about Elder Benson’s talk at BYU in which he made the statement that every word spoken by the current prophet must be regarded as from the Lord. They called Elder Benson in and scolded him and caused him to apologize to the First Presidency for those remarks. President Kimball declared that when the Lord spoke to him, that was one thing, but that the Lord did not speak to him on every topic and therefore it was Spencer Kimball talking, not the Lord.
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