Testing Faith With Snakes

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I lived in San Diego County forty years before moving to northwest Oregon.
During those years I experienced something like seventeen close encounters
of a third kind with rattlers-- a few instances potentially fatal --but managed
to survive unscathed because I didn't try picking them up with my bare
hands while they were alive.

An important gift associated with believers is the power of healing. Maybe
preachers who die from snakebite should have taken that up as proof of
their faith instead of tempting fate with toxic reptiles.

†. Mrk 16:17-18 . . And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my
name . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

†. 1Cor 12:30 . . Do all have gifts of healing?

No; not all have gifts of healing. So then, I think it's reasonable to assume
that not all are immune to snakebite either.

Cliff
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[7angels]

according to scripture you are wrong. we are all gifted with healing. it comes down to whether or not you do what is necessary to receive those promises. also the word teaches that we are not to tempt God. and those people that go out to purposely get bitten to prove a point are not doing the will of God but are being decieved by the devil. Jesus was tempted this way and is our model on how we are to act.

God bless

 

[Strat]

I have enough faith to believe that if it was not my time i would survive a snake bite...i also have enough of a brain left to not pick one up.

 

[seekandfind]

When Jesus was in the wilderness and the enemy was trying to tempt Him:

Luke 4:9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
Luke 4:10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
Luke 4:11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

This is what Jesus said in response:

Luke 4:12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

I'm not sure that setting up a potentially dangerous situation, such as snake handling falls into the category of "healing."

 

[Jon-Marc]

Handling deadly snakes is not faith but foolishness. Nowhere in scripture does God command us to handle snakes during a church service to prove our faith. He told the disciples as they were being sent out to witness that if they did encounter poisonous snakes, they would not be harmed. How many of us travel the countryside by foot where we might encounter deadly snakes and other venomous creatures?