Sounds like he’s had 116 fails.
Scripture tried to warn them. “Can you hold fire to your bosom and not be burned?”
God tells us repeatedly to not get into harms way. These folks would be lots better off if they would stick to trying to have the faith of a mustard seed and say to that mountain ‘cast yourself into the sea” instead of handling the snakes.
Either way, we should not put the Lord to a test........
Thanks for the post!