Based on your logic the signs following the believers should fall in your lap. If I were to interpret your logic I would say the healings, speaking in tongues just happen. Either you take the entire passage literally or take the passage as symbolic piece.
I think the best way to read the passage is the way it is written.
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Originally Posted by TRFrance
Gee... based on that logic, why not just jump off a building and ask the Lord to let you bounce harmlessly off the pavement??
I don't see any brave Apostolics doing that! 
I think a better way to read that would be that if serpents attack a believer he could handle him safely and not be harmed, because of the Lord's protection. (As with Paul in Acts 28): 3 Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. 4When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, "This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live." 5But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. I don't think Jesus was advocating for saints to go around grabbing snakes as a way of testing their faith, or testing God's power. |
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