Well the thing is that my ancestors really weren't evil. I am talking about on my paternal grandmother's side of the family (my grandmother who passed away in 2006, May God rest her soul), she had two grandfathers who one was an Ashkenazi Jew and one was a Sephardic Jew. Both of her parents were from Mexico and she thought that she was Mexican all of her life and I had thought that too at least until I was about 12 or 13 (now 21). She was not aware of being Jewish, and the fact that she did not have a matrilineal descent does not cancel out the blood or the ancestry!It is not your fault what your relatives/ancestors did, you are only accountable for you. We can choose our friends, we can't choose our family
Yes, you are right. It is not worth going to hell over anything.
It sounds to me like you need a good dose of identity in Christ to be received into the deepest recesses of your soul. Shame about ancestry is a deep-level spiritual idolatry. It has to do with heroic images against prejudicial images you grew up with, which is psychological wickedness. Only Christ can heal the wounds and set right the attitudes. The Word of God transforms the heart and soul. When all that matters is that you have a Defender in Heaven, then all prejudicial attitudes disappear.
Well I really shouldn't be ashamed, I was just disappointed to find it out about my grandmother's ancestry (may God rest her soul).
It is disappointing because how would you feel if you thought you were an ethnicity, nationality or race your whole life and someone told you that you were something different than you thought you were?
Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, New York, the son of Lillian (née Friedman) and Cruz "Allen" Rivera (October 1, 1915 – November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver.[4][5] Rivera's father was a Catholic Puerto Rican,[6] and his mother is of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent. He was raised "mostly Jewish" and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
You are making the mistake of evaluating yourself by what others did in the past or what religion they belonged to or what ethnicity or race they were? That is illogical since your value before God depends on how you behave.
Romans 14:12 ►
New International Version
So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in His Father's glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
BTW
Jews are presently members of many races. German Jews, Ethiopian Jews.
Geraldo Rivera identifies himself as a Puerto Rican Jew.
History of the Jews in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia
Jews of K'ai-Fun-Foo (Kaifeng Subprefecture), China. A picture from the public domain en:Jewish Encyclopedia
Kaifeng Jews - Wikipedia
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Beta Israel soldier in the Israel Defense Forces
Beta Israel - Wikipedia
History of the Jews in India - Wikipedia
photo of Marathi Bene Israel family Alibag Bombay State.
