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04-09-2012, 08:53 AM
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
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I don't think it's faith at all. Genuine faith comes from God Himself, not someone conjuring up the nerve to do something at will.
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Well, I guess what I'm saying is that it's not how I interpret Scriptures, but I have no issue with them doing this practice in their worship services. But, part of that might also be culture. I was raised Baptist, but everyone grew up knowing there were Snake Handling churches up in the hills around town, and if you didn't know someone who attended one of those churches, you knew someone related to someone who did. So it never seemed as foreign and strange to us since it was something we knew was close by.
I think they are sincerely wrong in their interpretation of scripture, but I won't knock them for their expression of their walk with God.
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04-09-2012, 09:04 AM
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
Well ok, we should be cordial, yes, but I have serious issue with it. Like I do with praying to the saints, defication of Mary, and the Book of Mormon.
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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04-09-2012, 09:17 AM
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of 10!! :)
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
This thread reminded me of the old Wendy Bagwell....
Rattlesnake Story! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wne0Q3ZnjU
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04-09-2012, 09:24 AM
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
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Well ok, we should be cordial, yes, but I have serious issue with it. Like I do with praying to the saints, defication of Mary, and the Book of Mormon.
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Having known some of these folks, it can turn into idolatry really fast for some. There are some that the act, and sensationalism of the snake handling becomes more important than the Lord and living for the Lord. That's why one of the old timers told me, that many of the churches went to only handling the snakes on special occasions.... so that the people didn't get fixed on the snakes.
For those that I have met that do this in balance, and it's only one small aspect of their expression of their faith, I have much less issue than the ones that turn it into idolatry.
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04-09-2012, 09:46 AM
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
I think they are nuts.
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04-09-2012, 10:04 AM
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
There are very few qualified to directly handle snakes..... And even among them, accidents happen -eventually!
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04-09-2012, 11:22 AM
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
Atleast they don't pick and choose they do it all...lol unlike other Pentecostals that just "Speak in Tongues" and run to that verse...I use that portion alot when someone confronts me about "speaking in tongues since I believe" and I say do you handle snakes since (you believe....)
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04-09-2012, 11:26 AM
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
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Atleast they don't pick and choose they do it all...lol unlike other Pentecostals that just "Speak in Tongues" and run to that verse...I use that portion alot when someone confronts me about "speaking in tongues since I believe" and I say do you handle snakes since (you believe....)
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Actually, that scripture is not a good reference to show all should speak in tongues. It simply shows the believers in Christ would have these things happen. Paul shook off a snake without being harmed and spoke in tongues. Nough said.
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"It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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04-09-2012, 11:36 AM
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
O I know thats what I am getting at..lol you got those that do things halfway and the ones that do it all the way..
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04-09-2012, 11:56 AM
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Re: Snake Handling Easter Service in WSJ
1 corinthians 10:9
Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.
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