(February 17, 2014 at 12:27 am)popeyespappy Wrote: This is the second snake bite death at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name church that I am aware of. Melinda Brown the wife of another snake handling preacher Punkin Brown received a fatal bite during a service at this church in 1995. Punkin died 3 years later after being bitten at the Rock House Holiness Church near Scottsboro, Alabama. Freedom of religion be damned. These people need to be locked in rubber room for their own good. Hopefully before they breed. Punkin and Melinda had 5 under age children when he died. Last I heard the maternal grandparents were fighting to keep the kids out of the custody of the paternal grandparents who run another snake charming church the Holiness Church of God in Jesus Name in South Carolina.
And I hope the maternal grandparents prevail if they indeed are the ones that are fighting to prevent the children from being taken by the snake handling paternal grandparents.
Having faith that God will protect you while you are in His will is one thing. Misinterpreting scripture and as a result, handling dangerous creatures is another.
Many in this particular denomination no doubt are convinced that what they are doing is God's will. But just because one is sincerely convinced that something is God's will, does not mean it is so.
