Snake handeling pastor dies from rattelsnake bite to thigh.

[danschance]

Oh no, not ANOTHER one!

Snake-handling preacher dies from rattlesnake bite in West Virginia | END TIME HEADLINES

 

[Angela53510]

Pretty sad, considering those verses are almost for certain not in the original manuscripts, nor many of the later ones! Mark needs an ending, but theses verses were not it.

And never make a doctrine out of one passage in Scripture. Someone needs to tell these crazy people the truth!

 

[doseofreality]

Oh no, not ANOTHER one!

Snake-handling preacher dies from rattlesnake bite in West Virginia | END TIME HEADLINES

You play with fire, you get burned.

On a more serious note...
This is what happens when you ignore reality and convince your mind of a delusion stemmed from wishful thinking and ignorance.

 

[jb]

...those verses are almost for certain not in the original manuscripts, nor many of the later ones! Mark needs an ending, but theses verses were not it.

Really, I suggest you have a look at Dean J W Burgon's work titled "The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel according to St Mark," which proves conclusively that 16v9-20 are indeed genuine, you can find this book as a PDF download Here using the "Search" facility...

 

[Yahshua]

Mark 16:17-18:

“And these signs will follow those who believe: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

To know whether or not a quote from Christ is genuine simply compare it with the Torah and Prophets (because he'd never contradict them).

Isaiah 11:6-9

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
and a little child shall lead them.
7 The cow and the bear shall graze;
their young shall lie down together;
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
9 They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.

So Isaiah prophesies essentially the same concept as Mark's passage. Then Paul experienced the same thing...

Acts 28:3-5

3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand. 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, "Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live." 5 However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm

So is it a question of the verses validity...or did the verses just prove a particular truth about this pastor?

 

[Grey]

You mess with the snake, and well you know where this is going. They're wild animals who are probably freaking out in a room filled with people being handled by a rather loud and large creature, what do you expect?

 

[megaman125]

Pretty sad, considering those verses are almost for certain not in the original manuscripts, nor many of the later ones! Mark needs an ending, but theses verses were not it.

That's not even the issue here. Mark 16:17-18 isn't a commandment to pick up snakes anymore than Psalm 91:11-12 is a commandment for Jesus to throw himself off a cliff. It's simply a matter of twisting the Scripture into something it's not, just the same way Satan did in Luke 4:9-11.