Why do we say, “God Bless You”, when we sneeze ?
What is the sneezing parallel to ‘stink in my nostrils’, UNDERSTANDING ISAIAH ?


Then you come to my holy temple and burn your sacrifices and light your incense, and keep the holy days and feasts I have required of you through my servant Moses and you think that such behavior is pleasing to me. But I say unto you, your burnt offerings are an abomination in my sight, your sweet incense stinks in my nostrils, and I am disgusted with your holy days and feasts. All of your so-called righteousness is like filthy rags before my face. Now when you raise your arms to call upon me, I close my eyes so I won't see you. When you pray unto me I close my ears so I will not hear you. http://www.14lds.com/isaiah.htm

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The common courtesy of manner’s being expressed during the distribution
of mucus, related to sneezing, is linked to the Leviticus Laws of Bodily
discharges.



Rather than having several days of purification rites supervised by the High Priest
under Leviticus Laws, a verbal affirmation of ‘God Bless You’, covers
the atonement ritual with spiritual blessings . . . versus outward manifestations
of cleansing purification’s, with animal sacrifices, in case you sneezed.

Just as ISAIAH wrote about the Lord God Almighty being sickened
by the ‘stink in His nostrils’ of the burning of animal sacrifices, versus the atonement
under the High Priest Jesus Christ, with His blood being better than the
offering of goats & lambs . . .


Old Testament Sacrifices Were Symbolic Of The Messiah

(Hebrews 9:11-28 RSV)


"But when Christ appeared as a High Priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, He entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but His own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies for the purification of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God."
"Therefore He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant."

"For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. Hence even the first covenant was not ratified without blood. For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you." And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship. Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins."

http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/c...estament/42.htm

Although Jesus is believed to have been a human being with actual flesh and blood, he is also the Son of God insofar as he is the incarnation of the divine Logos, or Spirit of God. This aspect of Jesus’ nature is eternal and has neither beginning nor end in the processes of time. The author of Hebrews draws another comparison between Jesus and the priests of the Old Testament: The narrative in Genesis says nothing concerning the parentage of Melchizedek, and from this silence the author draws the conclusion that Melchizedek had no father or mother. In other words, he was an eternal rather than a temporal being. All of the Levitical priests were men who were born and who died, but Jesus, who was a priest after the order of Melchizedek, had eternal life. In addition, the work that Jesus performed as a priest exceeded in importance that which was done by the men who ministered under the Levitical priesthood. One of the reasons given to support this claim of Jesus’ priestly superiority is that the priests of the tribe of Levi had to perform their services at repeated intervals. Even the sacrifice made on the great day of atonement had to be performed once every year. In contrast, Jesus as high priest offered the sacrifice of himself, which was done only once, but this one sacrifice was sufficient not only for all time to come but even for those who had died prior to the time when the sacrifice was made.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneeze

A sneeze is a reaction in the nose in which air and mucus (the liquid found in the nose) are forced out quickly. It often happens after breathing dust or other small things into the nose. When people sneeze their eyes close. This is a natural reflex which keeps the eyes from being bulged by the great pressure of air which is being released through the sinus cavity (the area the nostrils lead into). A common thing to say to people when they sneeze is "Bless you!" or "Gesundheit!" (from German, meaning "health"). When people sneeze the speed is about 150 kilometer or more.

I always say, "And stay out!"

As in , when you sneeze, you say, "And stay out" ?


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http://www.enduringword.com/commentaries/0315.htm
Leviticus 15 - Laws Concerning Bodily Discharges


A. Bodily discharges from a man.

i. It is important for us to regard these laws of cleanliness in a New Testament perspective. In Mark 7:1-9 Jesus criticized the Pharisees for their over-emphasis on ceremonial cleanliness and their lack of regard for internal cleanliness. These laws were meant to have both hygienic reasons and spiritual applications; they were never intended as the way to be right with God.



ii. In Acts 15, the early Christian community properly discerned the work and will of God in the New Covenant: that under the New Covenant, the believer was not bound to these laws of ritual purity. One could be a follower of Jesus without the ritual conformity to the Mosaic Law.



iii. Yet we need to remember that spiritual cleanliness in worship is important today. We also remember that Jesus is the One who makes us clean and fit for fellowship: You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you (John 15:3). As we receive from the Word of God, we are being cleansed.



iv. Our cleanliness is complete as we abide in Jesus: 1 John 1:7-9 - But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

People used to believe that when someone sneezed that their soul would be temporarily exiting their body.
While being 'soulless' for that brief amount of time, it was feared that evil spirits had a chance to enter the body.
To make sure this did not happen people said: "Bless You" as they imagined that this would keep the evil spirits from entering the body.
Most of us have retained this habit even though few still realize its origin.

V.

Very interesting, V :

I found this cute photo to say thank you, for sharing your knowledge on this topic.


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p.s.
You do not have to respond, however, I am still remembering the four year girl (daughter)
of your friend, I call her angel-girl-Daleth . . . and I am very interested in her updates from her
physician testings and such.

Much love . . . going to you and your family !

Thanks CSA,

The girl, Sophie, is still hanging on.
Her parents (my friends) had to make a very difficult decision.
They had to choose between a second operation to remove the remaining tumor, combined with radiation therapy which would surely leave her with a far lower IQ and other mental problems, and a new type of chemo therapy which would give her a lower chance of survival but with a lower chance of brain damage.
I can not imagine having to make that choice.

I am a leathery old cynic, as you well know, but seeing this suffering up-close shrivels my heart.

All the best,

V.

Thank you, so much, V :

I want you to keep me abreast to the progress, of Sophie, our angel girl !

And in a shriveled heart, know I under intercessory prayer, am seeing Sophie
under her birth name, as a lesson in `wisdom` :





Interesting, that her parents used `wisdom` to determine a treatment option for her
best interest.


So I will never read or hear the word `wisdom` without a connection to Sophie. I have
ask in prayer ( I know you are a leathery old cynic ) . . . for all the medical technology
to come forth for Sophie.

Take Care, V . . . I will expect you to `not` neglect to understand my desire to hear
news about Sophie. We can have different ideas about faith, etc. However, we can
agree upon helping Sophie, with our best foot forward in human consideration.


With love & respect,

C7A

As requested, here's the update on Sophie.

The first round of chemo is coming to a close.
I will spare you the details but as you probably know chemo therapy is a very aggressive treatment.

Children, Sophie is only four years old, can not comprehend what is happening to them and in the words of a poet whose name I can't remember, 'they suffer without limits'.

Sophie's dad, who is a high-school friend of mine and who is an unbeliever like me, goes to the chapel in the hospital to meditate in order to keep his sanity.

I can understand that if he had been raised in a religious family he would be praying to the deity his family believed in.

But I can not do this.

To me the argument for a caring and intervening omnipotent being died in the crematoria of Auschwitch Birkenau and before that it died in Stalingrad and the Gulag and before that it died in Verdun and Passchendaele and before that it died in a million other senseless atrocities.

Crowded House, one of my favorite bands, sang: I'd rather believe in the terrible truth than a beautiful lie.

Your kind thoughts are appreciated though.

Be well.

V.

Thank you, so much for sharing these powerful heartfelt experiences.

I admire your honesty, V.

And I go to sleep with this on my mind :


Sophie's dad, who is a high-school friend of mine and who is an unbeliever like me, goes to the chapel in the hospital to meditate in order to keep his sanity.


V, I love Sophia, although I have never seen her.


Please include me in any future, updates !


Yours,


Betty

John 15:18-21

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you... If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you... because they do not know Him who sent Me."

http://www.tgm.org/Blasphemy.htm

Here is what it is…
but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
Wow! That is rough! But what does that mean, “speaking against the Holy Spirit”?

Well it’s really pretty simple. “Blasphemy” is something slanderous and/or injurious to one’s good name. And the Greek word for “against” can mean “according to the case against” or “to the charge of” which is legal language. So what I believe this is saying is that “speaking blasphemy against” the Holy Spirit is like when someone one knowingly and deliberately as a legal witness attributes the works, operations and/or gifts of the Holy Spirit to the Devil or attributes the works, operations of the Devil to the Holy Spirit.

The Pharisees did this when Jesus was casting out demons by the power of the Holy Spirit. They proclaimed: “He cast out demon spirits by the power of Beelzebub!”
Jesus stopped their mouths right then and there and straightened them out.

Now Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is NOT someone that is just parroting someone else or speaking out of ignorance. Paul in 1Tim 1:12-13 said that He had even blasphemed the Holy Spirit, but that he had done this out of ignorance.

This is also NOT just something stupid that someone casually says once or twice. This is something that is said deliberately – in abundance – from the heart. How do we know that? We know that from the context of the rest of this passage.

vs. 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit
vs. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh.
vs. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
vs. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
vs. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy. He is not above using religion to accomplish his goals. So I don’t care WHO told you that you have committed the unpardonable sin… a “friend”, a relative, a coworker, someone in your church, your Priest of Pastor or Satan himself… I guarantee you that you could NOT have done it accidentally (without knowing about it). You would have to knowingly and deliberately, from your heart of hearts reject and renounce the Holy Spirit and verbally slander Him and His works and character to others.

I don’t think a person like that would even be reading this article! That is why you need to realize that you have not committed this unpardonable sin. Now you may have indeed sinned. But God’s Word says that He is QUICK TO FORGIVE all other sins. So ask for His forgiveness, and believe by faith that you have received it and get on with your life.

Don’t let the Devil continue to hold you in bondage.
Don’t allow the Devil to hold you back any longer from you walk with God.

When you sneeze, it is said that your heart stop

so just in case you do die after you sneeze, a blessing is proper since it might be the last words that you will be hearing.

Very good, input !




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