[general_re]

Many instances observed.

Are you a member of a snake handling congregation? ;)

I think there's a difference between reading those passages to mean that those things either have or will come to pass, and reading it to mean that all Christians should go out and actually do those things - one reading is a prophecy, and the other is a commandment....

[PatrickHenry]

Out of the woodwork they come ...

[unspun]

Are you a member of a snake handling congregation? ;) I think there's a difference between reading those passages to mean that those things either have or will come to pass, and reading it to mean that all Christians should go out and actually do those things - one reading is a prophecy, and the other is a commandment....

There is a difference between tempting fate by snake handling and doing what comes naturally in the new nature that a Christian has... things such as the spiritual gifts that Paul listed and encouraged Christians to practice.

Of course, it is important to treat such experientally understood matters with at least as much sobriety as a paleontologist treats a tooth.