My favorite part is this:
"This raises perhaps the central problem with appeals to prophetic fallibility. If God is capable of making his will known to you then why not to the prophets? And if his power to make his will known is limited by their human frailty why is it not limited by your own human frailty?
In other words, appeals to fallibility to defend disagreeing with the prophets almost always fail to account for how come that same fallibility principle does not call into question the ability of the one making the appeal to discern the will of God. Fallibility Boulevard is a two way street. Yet critics who cite prophetic fallibility rarely exhibit a self-awareness of the irrational asymmetry of their appeal. Their confidence that their own view is correct while the prophets are wrong because prophets are fallible is self-contradicting."Read the whole thing. It's a bit wordy, but lots of yumminess in here. (Yes, yumminess is a word. If you don't think so, go eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's, then lets talk :) ). The video is very interesting as well.
http://www.sixteensmallstones.org/watchmen-on-the-tower-on-the-limits-of-prophetic-fallibility/
One of my favorite talks that I think could have been linked to at the end of his post is this one by Elder Oaks on criticism and how to handle it.
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