The Church took 400 years to canonize the Christian Bible. It took that long because the Fathers were not entirely sure which of the many gospels and epistles were inspired and which profane. There was considerable disagreement among them as to which scrolls to include and which to exclude. It's a historical fact, not fiction you are peddling. It's Church history 101 (apprently you skipped that class).
I believe that everything in the Bible is inspired word of God. But my Bible is not the same as your Bible. That's Church history 102 (you skipped that class too; apparently you ad your fellow Protesters think Christianity started 500 years ago by Martin Luther).
You are also accusing me of questioning the authority of the Bible, and I ask you: Did not Martin Luther do the same thing when he changed the Bible the Church held sacred for practically 1,200 years? Did not Luther consider the Bible of his days to be imperfect? For if the Bible were perfect and true all along, he would have not found a need to change it.
You are questioning also who blesses the icons. The icons are blessed at the altar (they remain on the altar for 40 days). We pray that God would bless them, and we trust that He does. Apparently you don't.
Pecca fortiter...
How did they determine what was "inspired" if they were in disagreement? Did they just make it up?
Luther had some issues with some of the books (James and Hebrews) but you will find them in the Protestant Bible today.
Terrific defense of apostolic Christianity, Kosta.
I have a technical question. Do icons need to be blessed? I have come across a modern Orthodox iconographer's website (did not keep the link) and he explained that icons are blessed by the very act of writing them and any additional blessing is innecessary. Or perhaps he meant that they are blessed intrinsically. Was he wrong?