/christian/ - Does your tradition give laypeople the authority to bless objects and people?Orthodox Christians can do it - we can bless food, people, objects, etc. with the sign of the Cross - but doing the same hand gesture as when we do the sign of the Cross on ours

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Christanon 12/14/17 (Thu) 00:02:09 85caa5 No.572892

Does your tradition give laypeople the authority to bless objects and people?

Orthodox Christians can do it - we can bless food, people, objects, etc. with the sign of the Cross - but doing the same hand gesture as when we do the sign of the Cross on ourselves, and doing it left to right rather than right to left (we do it right to left when doing the sign of the Cross on ourselves, and left to right when blessing an object or a person).

The ICXC hand gesture is only for priests and bishops though.

Christanon 12/14/17 (Thu) 00:53:09 5b1b4e No.572909

It depends on the context. Blessing and thanking are synonyms biblically 1 chronicles 16:4-8,34-43. It seems on that same chapter David thanked his house for some reason. I think the reason is the next verse in 1 chronicles 17 though as David wanted to build God a house for the ark of the covenant as to boast David's craftsmanship skill. Which God says no to in 1 chronicles 17:4 because of God not wanting us adding to or taking away from what He says/wants i.e revelation 22:18-19.

Personally because of romans 3:9-12 I won't be blessing/thanking animals on earth if I can avoid it since all flesh is unrighteous, since we know about revelation now anyways. Now christians and enemies could and should be blessed/thanked because of all the stuff in matthew 5:44 and luke 6:28. Now objects I don't know about, as all the earth is going to be destroyed anyways so I am not sure there is much of any worth blessing anything that is staying on earth.

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>tradition

>and doing it left to right rather than right to left (we do it right to left when doing the sign of the Cross on ourselves, and left to right when blessing an object or a person).

>The ICXC hand gesture is only for priests and bishops though.

Is this biblical? Have you read and applied mark 7:8-9 and colossians 2:8?