A doctrine of alienation

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Christians, if you are here reading this you are already lost among the flocks. Having an open mind, being who you are, following what you think is right-- it's not the religion you profess to follow. Pretty much, yer doin it wrong. The truth of the bible is this:

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"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.  I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.  Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place."  (Matthew 5:17 NAB)

"It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for the smallest part of the letter of the law to become invalid."  (Luke 16:17 NAB)

Luke 12:51-52
51 "Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division." 52 "For from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three"

Matthew 10:34-35
34 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." 35 "For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

I have a lot to say on this particular subject in general, but most recently I was invited to my brothers new place. He "quit drinking" and has finished a program for homeless via Salvation Army where they took 80% of his paycheck (of jobs they found for him) and now he has a place of his own. I told him how proud I was, he's 25 it's his first place. I asked if we could spend as much time before I moved out of state as possible with him to which at first he said he would love to see me! Then he replied:

Just so you know, I mean I know your my blood sister, and you have a special place in my soul, but that being said, I am a devout followet of Christ, and I am doing everything in my power to keep a reverent fear of God's wrath and absence. So, I've got nothing but things about what God has done in my life to share. If my faith makes you uncomfortable, you don't have to come. I am riding God's canoe through an ocean I had no idea I was even floating on. I will never hate you. But I need to be wary of people who do not believe in God and the salvation of ours souls through Christ; even if it is my own family.
5 hours ago

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I feel as if he's just built a giant wall and left me out in the dust. This kid I grew up with toe to toe shoulder to shoulder--is every year pushing himself away from me, and my mom (whose LGBT). He's said some of the most disgusting things he could say to us like how I'll end up a puke slathered corpse one day on the side of the highway (when I told him I no longer believed in the abrahamic god). He's disowned and repaired and disowned my mom so many times it's mean, and he hangs out with my cousin who also professes Christ is King! In the middle of stores and stuff like a weirdo. But that cousin? Has secret threesome sex with his wife and other men. Some good Christian man he is. He's an ugly person inside, I found out the hard way and others have as well. One day so too will my brother. But until then, I'm the one he has alienated. Not based upon who I am as a person, how much love I have to give him, how tolerant I am of his 'faith', or what have you--I'm deemed the leper solely because he fears me based on the words in a book he read. This kid, whom I taught to read, read something and now thinks I'm something to be avoided.

That, my friends, is the inevitability of Christiantity. Separation, alienation, and lifelong prejudice.

It seems as if your brother has taken the passage from 2 John 1:9-11 as one of his guiding principles.  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=CEV.  

You can continue to be unhappy with the situation.  That will stress you out and piss you off.

You can accept the fact that he's a fully grown man who can make his own decisions and respect him for doing so although those decisions displease you.  Right now you don't see him as your equal based upon your comments.  You want to be his boss and still see him as a child.

You can acknowledge the reality that your relationship has changed and move on.  At some point you may reconcile.

You can hold a funeral for your relationship and bury it.   Simply write the whole thing off as being dead.  One day it might get resurrected or it may stay dead until you die.  But it may help you to let it all go so that you can concentrate on your other relationships.  After all, it's your own attitude that determines if you are happy or sad.  You can't change his so change yours.  Your current attitude about your brother is disrupting your other relationships and placing them in jeopardy.