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Serpent-handling pastor profiled earlier in Washington Post dies from rattlesnake bite
Washington post ^ | 5/30/2012 | Julia Duin

Posted on 05/30/2012 6:26:18 PM PDT by Morgana

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Okay who has the snake ping?
1 posted on 05/30/2012 6:26:25 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Slings and Arrows; WVNan; Chode; GeronL; JoeProBono

oh yea ping


2 posted on 05/30/2012 6:27:52 PM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: Morgana
Okay who has the snake ping?

Maybe the same guy who has the snakes-on-a-plane ping?

3 posted on 05/30/2012 6:30:01 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: PapaNew

Yea who is that?


4 posted on 05/30/2012 6:31:30 PM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: Morgana

I don’t think we are to tempt God. If we happen to be outside and get bitten, that’s one thing. Playing with snakes is another. Christ would not show out to prove a point; he refused to tempt God by flinging himself off the mountain in a dramatic display.


5 posted on 05/30/2012 6:33:02 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Twinkie

agreed. and isn’t that the lesson we must take from this guy’s faith? he went too far and was caught in a deception.


6 posted on 05/30/2012 6:38:57 PM PDT by ThirstyMan
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To: Twinkie
Exactly the verse I was thinking of.

Matthew 4

1Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry. 3And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

5Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,

6And said to him, If you be the Son of God, cast yourself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning you: and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

7Jesus said to him, It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.

7 posted on 05/30/2012 6:39:19 PM PDT by Pollster1 (A boy becomes a man when a man is needed - John Steinbeck)
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To: Morgana

I don’t know - just a wild guess.


8 posted on 05/30/2012 6:40:31 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Twinkie

I don’t know if it is tempting God or just taking the Bible verse too far. Where does one draw the line? Some get so wrapped up in their faith that they do go off the deep end.


9 posted on 05/30/2012 6:47:39 PM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: Twinkie

Ecclesiastes 10:8 - if a serpent bites before being charmed, there is no profit for the charmer - trumped Mark 16:9-20 (which may not even be genuine as far as the biblical text is concerned - there is doubt). Too many of God’s people have a hard time understanding that not every verse is for them. This was truly tragic, and will have a negative impact on his followers as well.


10 posted on 05/30/2012 6:48:25 PM PDT by Olympiad Fisherman
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To: Morgana

I have never understood the snake handlers.....yeah I know what Mark 16:18 says, but every Bible I have read notes that this part of Mark is not in some of the early manuscripts and is thus suspect. I guess I’d pick up a snake if God told me to.....but I’d make darn well sure it was Him speaking first.


11 posted on 05/30/2012 6:48:35 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Hope springs eternal - maybe the Bucs will break .500 this year)
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To: Morgana
oh well...
12 posted on 05/30/2012 7:12:36 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

Yea I know..


13 posted on 05/30/2012 7:14:49 PM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: Morgana

Here’s a clue...

Wolford was 15 when he saw his father die at age 39 of a rattlesnake bite in almost exactly the same circumstances.


14 posted on 05/30/2012 7:19:25 PM PDT by kcvl
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Here’s a clue...

Wolford was 15 when he saw his father die at age 39 of a rattlesnake bite in almost exactly the same circumstances.


15 posted on 05/30/2012 7:19:50 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Morgana

. I hate snakes!

16 posted on 05/30/2012 7:22:13 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Twinkie
I don’t think we are to tempt God. If we happen to be outside and get bitten, that’s one thing. Playing with snakes is another. Christ would not show out to prove a point; he refused to tempt God by flinging himself off the mountain in a dramatic display.

True and even Moses only picked up the serpent AFTER GOD told him too.

The late Wendy Bagwell expressed his feelings on the matter quite straight forward.

Preacher to Wendy "Brother Wendy you mean to tell me that if The Lord told you to pick up the serpent you wouldn't do it?"
Wendy to the Preacher: "Yes Preacher I surely would but He didn't and I aint".

17 posted on 05/30/2012 7:35:46 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Twinkie

I have heard of snake handlers, but never of poison drinkers.

Arsenic you could work up a tolerance for, but cyanide? Destroying Angel mushrooms?

So if these folks don’t drink poison, why do they still think they have to handle snakes?


18 posted on 05/30/2012 7:38:28 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: Morgana; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
G-D (to DARWIN): "This one's yours."


19 posted on 05/30/2012 7:40:07 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Morgana

I think I’ll interpret the Bible myself. After all, what could go wrong?


20 posted on 05/30/2012 7:43:56 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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