Question on the Bible

Hi Moreless

I was wondering if you could help me understand something…

I have just started out in my own little venture to understand and seek the truths of the Bible. For me this meant giving up the man-made holidays and only recognizing God’s Holy Days. On top of recognizing the true Sabbath (not what most religions want you to believe the Sabbath is). I have only begun on my journey and I can tell you that it has really opened my eyes BIG time to all the deception I have been exposed to my whole life.

My question is: Does the Bible say anything about steering clear of people who are -- for a lack of a better way to say it – Ignorant?

I am not trying to be judgmental on anyone who cannot help themselves from being this way I am talking about the people who know right from wrong and sin anyway.

Here is the reason why I ask …

I have out of courtesy explained to my family that I no longer celebrate these traditions. Which means please do not wish me a Merry Christmas or a Happy Easter or any of the sort. I was as polite as I knew possibly to be.

My mother became intrigued at first and started to ask me some questions and of course I answered them to the best of my ability and when I did not know the answer I searched it and came back with something intelligent to say. However it seems as though it became so that she would argue about my beliefs and hers. I understand that the Devil’s only objective is to deceive the masses but why would someone want to intentionally argue about something such as this?? I mean I could understand if I was shoving it down her throat but I was not.

My mother is happier than heck to be where she is in life. She has no desire to learn anything new and what she does want to learn does not help her from learning the truths on life, the bible, anything. Really its all fun stuff like how can I shop today and spend money. She is from the era where the man supports the woman and the man is King. Nothing wrong with this at all it is not my place to say what one believes and dis-believes. I have just noticed that when it comes to her husband she does not have a back bone and refuses to stand for what she personally believes in.

I am the complete opposite of her. I am curious as heck about learning what I can. Trying to further my own education on my own through things like this forum reading many books, the bible things like that. I am not a man basher by any stretch of the means however I can tell you that if there is something I feel very strongly about there is absolutely no one on this planet than can sway me from my beliefs and I don’t care who you are. – That is my personal belief. But I am also very open for learning. I LOVE to learn when it is the truth. If I find something out I am usually first going to do research on it before I believe it.

Anyway, I feel this strain between my mother and I. At least from my perspective. I moved back to my hometown in Ohio to help her grow her business so I work with her every day. I am trying soooo hard to get over this but I cant help it I feel like I am trying to talk to a 5 year old who wants to go out and play all the time instead of wanting to grow up and get down to business. It is like she is happy being ignorant and wants to bash me at every opportunity. I have respect for her because she’s my mom. I respect her for trying her best to raise me as a child but there has to be a point when it all stops. Under normal circumstances if this was anyone else I would have left them so far behind it would have made their head spin. However being that its my mother its not that simple.

So I guess back to my original question – How does one deal with this trying to live through God???



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