Did you know that saying “God bless you” after someone sneezed is an old superstition?
“During the plague of AD 590, Pope Gregory I ordered unceasing prayer for divine intercession. Part of his command was that anyone sneezing be blessed immediately ("God bless you"), since sneezing was often the first sign that someone was falling ill with the plague." By AD 750, it became customary to say "God bless you" as a response to one sneezing. The practice of blessing someone who sneezes dates as far back as at least AD 77, although it is far older than most specific explanations can account for. Some have offered an explanation suggesting that people once held the folk belief that a person's soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed, that sneezing otherwise opened the body to invasion by the Devil or evil spirits, or that sneezing was the body's effort to force out an invading evil presence. In these cases, "God bless you" or "bless you" is used as a sort of shield against evil.”
I had no idea myself until recently.
Knowing this now takes me back to Titus chapter 1 verses 10 through 16 where it warns us about men who speak based on their own vain opinion, and not of the truth (Psalms 119:142), who spread Jew-ish fables and lies to deceive others for monetary gain. Though these verses are referring to the Hebrew men of the nation of Israel, many of these so-called Pastors, Priests and Jew-ish converts (the Synagogue of Satan referred to in Revelations 2:9) of the other nations, who falsely proclaim that they know God fit this description as well.
“For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.“