Untangling Cliché: "Bless," Blessing," "Blessed."

So for the Hebrew / ancient Israelite, "blessing" was the gift of the king.  Anything bad was the scheming of one of the god's less sympathetic entourage.

If you want to know what the "system" is, look not at your Bible but first at your life.  Is it embued with good things?   Or is it brutal and beset with difficulty?

Now consult your imagination: how do you see God? 

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