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Is a character whos ability makes another card CBI ability in itself CBN or just CBI? For example, is Amariah the High Priest, whos ability makes enhancements CBI, ability CBI or CBN?

why is that?

and why is that? what the the idea behind that ruling?

Also, thanks for the response.  I was playing with my friend and I thought that this was the way that it was ruled and he wanted to know why, so he created the post.

so is it just abilities that grant CBI/P status to other cards that are CBN?

More or less, the ruling was made for the sake of simplicity.

To elaborate on that, imagine if I have a card like Ram's Horn active, which makes enhancements used by my priests and WC heroes CBI.  It is the middle of a battle, and I play Reach of Desperation followed by Peace Treaty off of a WC purple hero, letting me ITB, draw 3, and then ignore a brigade.

All of this is now CBI, because of Ram's Horn, right?  Well, now you play something like Dream to ITB, draw 3, and play Coliseum Lions, not remembering about the ignore.  So, you just play Destructive Decay to negate and discard Ram's Horn.  Now, did all of that stuff we just did that was CBI suddenly lose CBI status?  And in the process, shouldn't that ITB off of Dream have interrupted the ignore, and allowed Coliseum Lions to discard a hero in battle?

I understand this example is convoluted, but it is just one such instance where there could be an issue with retroactively losing CB- status.  Think about similar cases, like if you had the CBP Soul out, blocked a battle with Balaam and played Confusion to discard opponent's SoG in deck, and then your opponent played Benedictus on Asaph. The CBP Soul is now negated, so does that mean that the previously CBP Confusion is now prevented by Balaam, well after it would have been prevented if it were going to be?

Hence, simplicity and consistency in having this rule.

so is it just abilities that grant CBI/P status to other cards that are CBN?

Also those that grant CBN.  So if it grants any CB-, then it is itself CBN.

More or less, the ruling was made for the sake of simplicity.

Thanks to Redoubter and browarod for making my point... 

Think of it this way:  Abilities that grant CB-anything function like identifiers, not abilities.  Which I think is an accurate description anyways.