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'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
(February 24, 2014 at 10:46 am)Tonus Wrote: Let's hope the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

WAIT! no body touch that apple... I dont need to start another 2000 years of bullshit
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
(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.
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
(February 25, 2014 at 9:53 am)discipulus Wrote: 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.

But you are getting into an extremely grey area here. Scripture interpretations and just what God's will consists of are highly contested and vary vastly. Given that handling poisonous snakes is an expression of his religious beliefs and that he is doing what he believes is God's will, who gets to say that he is wrong in what he is doing?
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
(February 25, 2014 at 9:53 am)discipulus Wrote: 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.

Good thing we've got you here to tell us what god's will really is, huh? Rolleyes
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RE: 'Snake Salvation' Pastor Dies Hilariously Ironic Death
(February 25, 2014 at 9:53 am)discipulus Wrote:
(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.

Why does ur book have that shit in there.. oh wait.. it was later added just like the rest of the nonsense. ...
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