What is your reaction to the concept that inanimate objects that have been handled or blessed by a saint or
holy person convey miraculous power?
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Dear blogger, who converted to Catholicism, I have learned that it is important to pray to God for Divine Love, which is the essence of divinity, and is
conveyed to a prayerful»
persons soul by the
Holy Spirit.
Contradicting a charismatic understanding of spontaneous divinity within the
person, the empiric self opposes those who behave as if they were «
holier than thou» and is anxious to deny any special sanctity
conveyed in his or her
person.
This is the origin of the belief that inanimate objects can
convey miraculous power when they have been handled or just blessed by a saint or
holy person.
In the terms of the Old Covenant, Yahweh Sabaoth used the instrument of a
holy people, Israel, to
convey his purposes to the nations.
Early Palestinian Christian tradition understood baptism as an eschatological reality binding believers to the eschatological
person of the Messiah,
conveying them into the end - time reality of the Kingdom, bestowing on them the eschatological gift of the
Holy Spirit and the forgiveness of sin, and incorporating them into the company of those redeemed by the Christ.