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Another Pentecostal Snake Handler Dies After Venomous Bite
Charisma News ^ | 7/30/2015 | JESSILYN JUSTICE

Posted on 07/30/2015 12:45:09 PM PDT by xzins

A Kentucky coal miner died after refusing treatment for a Sunday-morning snake bit.

John David Brock, a member of the Holiness faith, was bitten by a rattlesnake and died four hours later, according to a CBS affiliate.

Brock had other health problems, and the official cause of death will be determined from medical records.

Snake-handling churches emerged in the early 20th century. It gained popularity in the last few years through the reality show Snake Salvation. The pastor in Snake Salvation, Jamie Coots, died of a snake bite in 2014.

The CBS affiliate says Brock is the second person to die of a snake bite this year in his congregation.


TOPICS: General Discusssion; Moral Issues; Theology
KEYWORDS: scripture; snakehandling
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21 posted on 07/30/2015 12:52:53 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Snickering Hound

No backbiting. How about no snake biting?


22 posted on 07/30/2015 12:52:57 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Jeff Chandler

You’re thinking you’re going to get zotted? LOL....


23 posted on 07/30/2015 12:53:17 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: JoeProBono

Now THAT’S funny!


24 posted on 07/30/2015 12:54:04 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

LOL


25 posted on 07/30/2015 12:54:10 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: JoeProBono

LOL! What kind of snake is that?

Coral, King...???


26 posted on 07/30/2015 12:54:48 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: DBrow
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
41:016:018 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

It doesn't say ALL of them. The bible also says we're all a part and none of us have all of the attributes. They are signs that the church was real and true. Not signs or gifts that every single believer had to have in common.

27 posted on 07/30/2015 12:58:09 PM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: xzins

I can think of a lot better ways to get to the afterlife if someone is that impatient. Sometimes when you tempt fate, fate takes it personally..


28 posted on 07/30/2015 12:59:06 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Around me snakes are endangered species. Around here we check after their head’s been parted from their body to see if they were poisonous.


29 posted on 07/30/2015 1:02:16 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

Please, this is just a tradition, fully equal to Scripture as a source of doctrine...


30 posted on 07/30/2015 1:02:23 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: xzins

Probably a corn snake. Very common as pets.


31 posted on 07/30/2015 1:03:03 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

A tradition with not a lot of takers.


32 posted on 07/30/2015 1:03:11 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

I’m in AZ so the ones here usually come with rattles attached. Of course there aren’t a lot left around populated ares for some reason.

But they do visit. It’s a quick visit.


33 posted on 07/30/2015 1:06:47 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: xzins

“A tradition with not a lot of takers.”

Perhaps the mountain holiness equivalent of monasteries.


34 posted on 07/30/2015 1:06:53 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: xzins; All
What a terrible misunderstanding of God.

Matthew 4:7, for example, comes to mind.

35 posted on 07/30/2015 1:07:51 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
Please, this is just a tradition, fully equal to Scripture as a source of doctrine...

Pretty sure ... no, make that 100% sure ... that the people who do this point directly to the verse from Mark quoted above and say that they are following the Bible, the Bible alone, and nothing but the Bible, sola scriptura.

36 posted on 07/30/2015 1:09:05 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Salvey

If it was the other David Brock you’d be reading about the snake dying.


37 posted on 07/30/2015 1:10:10 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: xzins

Coulda been rubber and had the same effect.


38 posted on 07/30/2015 1:10:19 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: Norm Lenhart

We need some of these country folk to do some snake hunting inside the DC beltway.


39 posted on 07/30/2015 1:11:20 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: Salvey

...ouch! Good one.


40 posted on 07/30/2015 1:11:49 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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