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==Question: How do Biblical prophets compare to modern prophets?==
===Biblical prophets and modern prophets are divinely called, but clearly are not perfect===

To get a better idea of how prophets are limited yet still divinely called, it can be helpful to look at some examples of Bible prophets and compare them with modern prophets.

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| '''Moses''' disobeyed God's instruction to speak to the rock and instead hit it. He then attributed the miracle to himself and Aaron, saying, "Must ''we'' fetch you water out of this rock?" He was chastized by the Lord afterward. ({{b||Numbers|20||}})
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| '''Joshua''' was deceived by the inhabitants of Gibeon when they claimed to come from a far country so they could get a peace accord with Joshua. Then the Israelites found that instead of living a long distant away, that people from Gibeon lived among them. ({{b||Joshua|9||}})
| '''Gordon B. Hinckley''' was deceived by [[Mark Hofmann]], who had done so in order to obtain money. Hofmann was even responsible for the death of some people. After some investigation, he was discovered and sentenced.
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| '''Gideon''' repeatedly asked the Lord for signs even though the Lord has said, "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign." ({{b||Judges|7|}}; {{b||Matthew|12|39}})
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| '''Nathan''' told David that the Lord approved of his desire to build a temple, and that he should commence the project. The Lord later told Nathan that such was ''not'' His desire, and that he was to tell David that the temple would be built by another. ({{b|2|Samuel|7||}})
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| '''Jonah''' felt some personal prejudices against Assyrians, to the point of expecting the Lord to give them fewer blessings than to Jews. ({{b||Jonah|4|1}})
| '''Brigham Young''' felt some personal prejudices against [[Racist_statements_by_Church_leaders|blacks]], to the point of expecting the Lord to give them fewer blessings than caucasians.
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| '''Jesus' apostles''' were not always perfectly humble or modest. They once disputed over which of them would be the greatest in heaven. ({{b||Mark|9|34}})
| '''Joseph Smith''' was not always perfectly humble or modest. He once said he had "more to boast of than ever any man had."<ref>{{HoC | vol=6|start=408|end=409 }}  This statement, when understood in its [[Did_Joseph_Smith_%27boast%27_of_keeping_the_Church_intact|proper context]], doesn't appear to be a statement of personal pride at all.  Joseph Smith read to the congregation [http://scriptures.lds.org/en/2_cor/11 2 Corinthians 11] and then mimicked Paul in his "boasting."  In its proper context, Joseph Smith was not acting in a proud manner at all but was using the rhetoric of Paul to defend his own authority as a prophet against those who were then proclaiming him a "fallen prophet." This statement, however, is used often in anti-Mormon literature as a criticism of the prophet and is used here only to show that even if he were in fact proud, it doesn't damage his authority as a prophet/apostles any more than it damaged Jesus' apostles' authority.</ref>  ''See [[Joseph Smith/Narcissism/Did Joseph Smith 'boast' of keeping the Church intact|here]]'', though, to learn how critics misinterpret this event.'' 
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A person could spend all day looking for examples of the Lord's chosen servants making mistakes, but such an activity does nothing to edify or strengthen people. In all of these situations, a prophet's weakness or mistakes do not make him any less a prophet, called of God to do His work.
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