[DaveMSmith]

If you are collecting wood for a fire in Minnesota, then, you'd better do it in a snake-free region. If one latches on to your hand, you're going to handle it, you see, even if it isn't legal.

So, in that case as Quix advises, throw it into the fire and do not seek medical treatment?

[John Leland 1789]

“So, in that case as Quix advises, throw it into the fire and do not seek medical treatment?”

I can only tell you that I have seen venomous snake bites, and venomous spider bites, and bees and wasps swarm individuals in remote missionary areas, where medical help is not available, and people dropped to their knees and prayed (in Jesus’ Name), and the life spared. I saw a case where a man was bleeding so bad that no first aid treatment would stop it, and there was no doctor or medical facility within 50 miles. Christians fell on their faces and prayed, and the bleeding stopped. We can tell bunches of incidents that were taken care of under believing prayer.

You can call me a cook, or you can think anything you want. But I've prayed over old car motors that shouldn't be able to pull their own weight, hooked up a 6,000 pound house trailer, and got to where I needed to go. And I believe that, too, was direct answer to prayer.

[Quix]

The Scriptural position is . . .

ACCORDING TO YOUR FAITH

so be it unto you.

I’d strongly encourage medical treatment if that’s where one’s greater faith is vested.