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Serpent-handling pastor dies hours after he's bitten by a RATTLESNAKE..
UK Daily Mail ^
| May 30, 2012
| Thomas Durante
Posted on 05/30/2012 10:45:10 AM PDT by C19fan
A Pentecostal reverend known for preaching with the help of a rattlesnake coiled around his arm lost his life when one of the creatures suddenly bit him. Mack Randall Wolford, pastor at the Full Gospel Apostolic House of the Lord Jesus in Matoaka, West Virginia, died hours after receiving the deadly bite on Sunday - the day after his 44th birthday. Wolford’s father, who was also a serpent-handling pastor, died in the same way nearly 30 years ago.
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TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: dumbass; snakes
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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. Mark 16:18 KJV
They had Gospel recently at church and I was thinking about those snake handlers in Appalachia.
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:45:19 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
I'd bet dollars to doughnut holes that The Wild and Wonderful Whites belong to that church.
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:47:46 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
To: C19fan
Definite Darwin Award candidate!
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:48:50 AM PDT
by
golf lover
(going)
To: C19fan
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. Sloppy translation by an overworked medieval monk?
Regards,
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:49:52 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinarily good evidence.)
To: C19fan
Perhaps the third generation should find a less lethal way to demonstrate their faith.
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:50:44 AM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: alexander_busek
Actually it is the King James version so no monks involved, hee hee.
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:51:53 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
“Wolford had been bitten three times before, but never sought medical attention, saying that a bite was a test of his faith.”
He failed the test.
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:53:19 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
He's not dead. He's resting.
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:55:46 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: C19fan
As I read this story, my thought where going something like, “Please don’t let it be West Virginia...Please Don’t let it be West Virginia...Please don’t let...Ahh Damn!”
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:55:51 AM PDT
by
apillar
To: C19fan
Poisonous snakes have been perfecting their venom for over 100 million years. Do not fool with them. Even if you receive anti-venom in time, severe damage to the tissue around bite will occur.
Rattlers are not hard to avoid...they rattle!
Cobra’s will stand up a foot high to warn up with expanded neck line.
Coral snakes can be confused with the non-poisonous breed. If yellow meets the red, it is poisonous snake. Just like the yellow traffic light is warning red is next.
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:56:22 AM PDT
by
entropy12
(Hate is the most insidious emotion, it will rot your gut more than anything else.)
To: Uncle Slayton
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:56:22 AM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: C19fan
He was definitely not a phony, that is for sure. He could have easily been handling defanged snakes and nobody would have known. Apprently he didn’t even have any anti venom near by.....I guess that would have shown lack of faith.
To: C19fan
They had Gospel recently at church What does that mean?
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posted on
05/30/2012 10:57:29 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: C19fan
You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.
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posted on
05/30/2012 11:00:36 AM PDT
by
DarthVader
(Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
To: alexander_busek
More likely the late Pastor's understanding of Mark 16:18 was formed without the help of first understanding Matthew 5:7.
To: C19fan
I’ve got faith that God won’t let the snake bite me if I don’t pick it up.
So far he hasn’t let me down.
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posted on
05/30/2012 11:04:12 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: C19fan
I firmly believe that sometime thousands of years ago, some scribe left out the most important verse of the Bible: ‘...verly I say unto you, DON’T BE STUPID.’
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posted on
05/30/2012 11:05:15 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: golf lover
Must have been a democrat.
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posted on
05/30/2012 11:05:37 AM PDT
by
liberalh8ter
(If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
To: entropy12
Rattlers are not hard to avoid...they rattle!
Not entirely true, unfortunately. We live in rattlesnake country, and wifey asks why I always walk around like a hunchback - it's the "Eyes down" thing goin' on.
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posted on
05/30/2012 11:08:33 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(A conservative, a liberal and a moderate walked into a bar; barkeep said "Hi Mitt")
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