(July 29, 2015 at 2:50 pm)Nope Wrote: I wonder how they retain their faith when one of their own dies from a snake bite?
I see from Wikipedia that they are just inconsistent on this point:
"Those who die from snakebites are never criticized for lack of adequate faith; it is believed that it was simply the deceased’s time to die.[6]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling
Inconsistent because they claim to believe the Bible is all literally true, and Mark clearly says that if they will not be harmed if they believe. Mark does not say that they will die from it if it is there time to die, it says they will be unharmed.
So they are not believing the Bible, just like the people they criticize.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
