How do the primitive baptist christians survive being purposely bit by venomous snakes? or drinking turpentine
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the snakes are fed and handled constanly so they normaly feel no threat, A snake will only use it's precious venom when neccesary, whether it having to eat or the threat of another animal. Sometimes these christian handlers are bit and they suffer the same pain as any other human.
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Yikes!  Oh, yes, the bible thumpers are SUCH a peaceful bunch, aren't they?  I think they forgot about the Holy Crusades.  Anyone who adheres to an organized religion must automatically surrender brain cells at the door, otherwise they would realize that killing someone is not going to save them from hell or anything else.  Problem is, most of these people were born and raised in their faith and will never consider that any other way to live is possible.  They were brainwashed from such an early age that they become enraged when their 'faith' is challenged.
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Drve the back roads at night. Rattlesnakes are nocturnal hunters. We used to do this in San Angelo Tx, and sell them to a lab that makes antivenin for snakebites. They don't kill 'em, just milk 'em for their venom. Don't try to capture one of these unless you really know what you are doing. Things can go bad in a hurry.
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SDA christians SOuthern Baptists and Mormons.... scary
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that's fascinating and couldn't be truer. you're right when you mention its focus on the obvious fanatics. i've seen plenty of "lesser" fundies that behave that way, and i've never quite figured out why. i've wondered if it's a pattern of behavior continued as a normal routine simply out of fear; be it socially-based of religious-based or both. that's the simplest explanation to  me, at least. who knows though.. maybe there really is something in the water. which is why i drink only bottled water.\n\nif you haven't already seen some of the other responses here, you'll be amused. you paste a link to an article/essay on theistic neurosis and bam, some of the first answers are "we are not crazy UR GOING 2 H3LL!!11" \n\nit'd be hilarious if it wasn't so expected.
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Christians and Alcohol\n\nby David J. Stewart\n\nThere is NO "safe" amount of alcohol\n\n"Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?  They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.  Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.  At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.  Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.  Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.  They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again." -Proverbs 23:29-35\n\nAlcohol is a Mind-Altering Drug\n\nThere is absolutely NO way for a believer to justify drinking alcoholic beverages.  The Scriptures found in Proverbs 23:29-35 clearly warn everyone (Christian or non-Christian) to abstain from the DANGEROUS SUBSTANCE OF ALCOHOL.   "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.  At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."  Did you read that?...LOOK NOT!  God is telling us NOT to drink intoxicating wine, not even to "look" at it (i.e., consider drinking it)!  For the wise Christian, drinking alcohol is NOT even an option.\n\nThe Bible is such a practical book.  I recently ran across an atheist's website.  The man tried to discredit God and the Bible by pointing out all the ugly portions of the Bible.  But the real world is ugly and God is very honest with us in the Bible.  It doesn't surprise me that spoiled rotten Americans would have a problem with the Bible.  The Bible puts the cookies on the bottom shelf...the truth is there if you want it.  Most people don't want to hear the truth (but ironically say they do).  \n\nIf you'll take another look at the above passage of Scriptures, you'll find the truth about alcohol...it "biteth like a serpent" and "stingeth like an adder".  "Strange women" is simply a reference to women who are not his wife.  It's just a fact, alcohol and immorality go together!  The reference to a man lying down in the "midst of the sea" is simply his hallucinations from the effects of the alcohol.  Likewise, the hallucination of lying down at the top of the ship's mast.  Alcohol is a DRUG!  This is a well-established FACT.  As such, alcohol should be treated as a drug but is not.  Alcohol abuse has killed millions, whereas Marijuana has not.  So why is alcohol legal when Marijuana is not?   Multitudes of people have spent years in prison for smoking and/or selling Marijuana.  Unbelievably, there are people who have been sentenced to life in prison for mere drug possession, while drunk drivers who committed murder walked away Scot-free.   Alcohol is far more dangerous and intoxicating than Marijuana.  This is a great HYPOCRISY in America.  The Bible clearly teaches that the effects of alcohol have sinful tendencies.  \n\n \n\nAlcohol's Bloodthirsty History\n\nLook again at the Scriptures above..."They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again."  Clearly, this is a reference to drunkenness.  Only God knows how many beer-drinking people have woke up the next morning, suffering from a hangover, not remembering what sins they committed the night before.  Hundreds-of-thousands of alcoholics  have frozen to death on city streets, feeling no coldness due to the numbing effect of the alcohol.  Many others have been jack-rolled (beaten up) and didn't remember anything when they woke up in the hospital.   It is wickedness!  Millions-upon-millions of Americans br
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Pray for them and share Jesus Christ with them. They come here for answers about how they can be saved, it is just their way of beating around the bush. \n\nMost of them are afraid of life, and what is after. Also it is Satan inside of them warring against God.\n\nBest to just come back with answers from the Bible, about how God does love them. Because that is what they really want to hear, or they wouldn't come on this site.
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I'm not totally sure that these people's actions are fully from God. Not to be like anti-God or anything please don't assume, but Satan also has powers that influence people and can eventually take over their lives. Being a Christian, I don't believe that these men are really doing what you think they are, but I'm not speaking for the whole Christian body, just for me. On the counter, there's nowhere in the Bible that says, "miracle healers are fake," but I can't believe that this is true. There is a passage in the Bible that talks about weak Christians (people who believe that they have to wear a certain thing, look a certain way, do certain things, etc. not saying that they aren't Christians, they are) and strong Christians, (who believe that we can come to Jesus as we are and that He is the sacrifice for our sins.) I think that these miracle healers are the weaker Christians and the strong Christians must help them see that they don't have to do that. They think that they have to heal and touch people to make them well, when really the miracle is from God. I hope that you can make sense of all this. This is a very difficult passage of Scripture to understand.
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Ok here is a try.  A guy told me this the other day...\n\nThese 3 pastors enjoyed going around to elderly people's homes and sharing religous inspirations with them.  They felt they had to do this, as a lot of old folks couldn't make it out of the house.\n\nOne day the 3 pastors stopped by an elderly woman's house.  She was really excited to see them, as she doesn't get any visitors except for her son who drops off groceries once a week.\n\nShe invited the pastors in and welcomed them to sit in her living room.  The pastors began reading versus to her and did their usual thing.\n\nOne of the pastors spotted a bowl of peanuts on the table and began eating them.  As time went on and they spoke with the lady about religion, an hour had passed in no time.  The pastor eating the peanuts realized that he had nearly finished off the entire bowl.  The pastor was embarrased as he could tell the elderly lady didn't have much money and probably had a hard time affording food.\n\nThe pastor apologized to the lady for eating nearly her whole bowl of peanuts.  He assured her, he would replace them the next day.\n\nThe elderly lady replied "Don't worry about it, since I lost my teeth years ago...I haven't been able to eat chocolate covered peanuts.  I only suck the chocolate off of them!"
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You write like a southern snake-handling baptist.
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Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. \n\nWhoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.\n\nWhoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.\n\nJust as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.\n\nThis is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."\n\nJohn 6:53-58\n\n*****************************************\nRemain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.\n\nI am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. \n\nAnyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.\n\nJohn 15:4-6
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They DON'T.  The group you're seeing is an isolated, single-family-run cult in Topeka Kansas.  He claims to be Baptist, but not a single Baptist denomination will claim him.  Most who've met the guy say he's completely imbalanced and keeps his own family in-line through threats of violence.  Just because he says "I'm a Christian" doesn't make him any more a Christian than saying "I'm a Buick" will make me a car.
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my answer to this question is, absolutely, YES! \n\n(the following explains how i arrived at this conclusion.)\n\n1st, many political leaders are DEEPLY religious bible-thumpers.\n\n2nd, in the bible you will find this line: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him." ~~Jesus Christ\n\n3rd, i ask you friends, how else *could* a religious fanatic interpret this line??\n\n4th, hence, political leaders are cannibals.
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I believe this verse means that a venomous serpent would not harm them, as the remainder of the verse states that deadly poison also would not harm them.\nAn example of this is found in the Book of Acts\n\n3Paul 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.\n\nI believe this because there is no place in scripture where Jesus or any of His followere did this themselves.
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That and a horrible predjudice against snakes.\n\nTee hee!
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OMG, u r kidding?! Pentacostal women don't cut their hair, ever, speak in toungues at church, stand up and dance to the lord in the aisles in church, some are snake handlers...every Baptist church is different. Some have women deacons, some have gay music ministers. Some are quite liberal, some are conservative. But Baptists are nowhere near as literal to biblical translation as Pentacostals.
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Rubber snakes in the garden works well, the type you can purchase at a dollar store will do in a pinch. If they are in your home, like the attic or basement; the scent of blood meal(cheap and available at garden centers) can drive them away but it has to be reapplied. In the old days up north they use to eat the poor little beggars, imagine that for a Sunday dinner.