You may disagree
with personal applications, but to argue that you've been lied to, it sounds perhaps over the top, friend.
And I just don't believe you're construing the semantics correctly. I'm a lawyer by trade, so mincing words is my game.
If you read any scripture, God has frequently played on nuance.
And being a professional nuancer, I don't see the term, "principal", as necessitating, "primary genetic progenitor." Those terms are NOT synonymous.
What manner of misinformation upsets you?
What manner of business are you in?
Having been around politics, management and law, the Church leaders do a very admirable job of governing a large mass of now dissimilar persons. They simplify doctrine because that's what a large body wants and needs. The more complicated stuff is there for personal divination.
Here is the key which most members miss. We are to follow the prophetic counsel, learn the Spirit until we receive constant personal revelation consistent with general guidelines and we are in fact prophets for our own domains.
History, any accurate history, never lends itself to a Sunday School version.
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