Yeah, those genealogies

bothered me for years. Why were they even there?

I don't want to think I'm superior in thinking, to the average person but, in my line of vocation, I had to do an awful lot of analyzing. I designed and built things .......... I "deconstructed" things and figured out how they worked and then fixed them or redesigned them ....... I designed and built new things.....

In that sort of thing, rationalization gets you absolutely NOwhere! You either hit on the truth or you're sunk. You find some wires sitting off to the side unused in a box or cct. board and they need to be explained in order to properly understand the device you're trying to analyze. Otherwise, you may find yourself ramming into an unexpected problem face-first!~

So the genealogies don't just happen to "be there". They were put in there for some very important reason. If they've now become irrelevant, it tells you the doctrine has changed. If the doctrine has changed, WHY has it changed? What else changed? If it was just a change of mind ..... then it shows that NONE of it is necessarily true but rather, IMAGINED to be true.

-Vince