http://news.yahoo.com/serpent-handling-w...ories.html

This pastor dies of a snake bite and his Father years earlier died of a snake bite Will these nutjobs get it now? I wonder what excuse Christians will have for his death? I saw a TV Doc on this a few years ago where a snake handler was bitten many times an almost died, his sister was killed form a snake bite while handling a snake. They just keep doing it. hock:

Manowar

(June 9, 2012 at 9:57 pm)Manowar Wrote: I wonder what excuse Christians will have for his death?

He got bit by a poisonous snake.

(June 9, 2012 at 10:05 pm)Drich Wrote:

(June 9, 2012 at 9:57 pm)Manowar Wrote: I wonder what excuse Christians will have for his death?

He got bit by a poisonous snake.

Yep. Snake-handling isn't exactly a mainstream practice.

Point of clarification: he was bitten by a venomous snake, as opposed to a poisonous one:

Quote:Poisons are substances that are toxic (cause harm) if swallowed or inhaled. Venoms are generally not toxic if swallowed, and must be injected under the skin (by snakes, spiders, etc.) into the tissues normally protected by skin in order to be toxic.

http://www.preservevenomous.com/Venom_Vs...Poison.htm

(June 9, 2012 at 10:26 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Point of clarification: he was bitten by a venomous snake, as opposed to a poisonous one:

Quote:Poisons are substances that are toxic (cause harm) if swallowed or inhaled. Venoms are generally not toxic if swallowed, and must be injected under the skin (by snakes, spiders, etc.) into the tissues normally protected by skin in order to be toxic.

http://www.preservevenomous.com/Venom_Vs...Poison.htm

Futher point of Clarity: If a man dies snake handling, then 11 times out of 10 he did so in the 'South.' If a snake bites you and you die in the South. Then you were bit by a Poisionous (pronounced Por-zen-ness) snake.

(June 9, 2012 at 10:05 pm)Drich Wrote:

(June 9, 2012 at 9:57 pm)Manowar Wrote: I wonder what excuse Christians will have for his death?

He got bit by a poisonous snake.

And you don't think that's evolution in action?

Is snake worship in the bible, or is this just one of things they made up as they went along?

It's all to do with signs of True Believers™ from (I believe) Mark 16, "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 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."

We can see how well that works out...

(June 10, 2012 at 1:25 am)Stimbo Wrote: It's all to do with signs of True Believers™ from (I believe) Mark 16, "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 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."

We can see how well that works out...

if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them?.... So why don't they drink poison

While I wouldn't necessarily condone such things, in the sense of "don't try this at home", it is the sort of thing that would qualify as a testable claim.