Actually over the years in my travels have met a few people that believe like the Bible says..(ha...) but they did not handle snakes in the services I visited...or I would have been OUT...Have seen my share of snakes for a lifetime....
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Actually, there was a point to what I posted about snake handling. And I think it was the same point the author of this thread attempted to make. Some on here feel very strongly about some of their beliefs. For example, regarding the role of women in the ministry. Thats not a condemnation- but, rather a simple statement of fact. They believe the writings of Paul in regards to women not preaching to be absolutely literal. No ifs, ands, and buts about it. Paul wrote what he meant and meant what he wrote. They asset there can be no deiviation from the Scriptures. If women were forbidden to speak in the assembly in the first century, they are forbidded to do so in the 21st Century.
But then, we come to Mark 16. The consensus among Apostolics is that the Gospel must be preached thru out the world. Laying hands on the sick and speaking in tongues are viable tenets of the Apostolic/Pentecostal faith. But, serpent handling The subject is comnpetely and absolutely avoided. Or is explained as "metephorical". Some have even resorted to the old "Mark 16 wasn't in the original manuscript" hogwash.
We pick and choose our "pet doctrines" like a Pentecostal buffet bar. We bark loudly when it comes to women's role in the ministry but have nothing to say about other teachings that come from the same Book. It reminds me of hearing a recording of a preacher once. He was doing a verse by verse teaching of Acts 2. When he came to verse 38, a teaching that didn't fit his doctrinal paradigm, he did the only thing he could do... he ignored the verse completely and went from verse 37, to verse 39.
As the old times use to say, "I believe the whole Book from civer to civer". But, do we really? Do we really accept the Bible as God's inerrant, infallible Word of God, or do we pick thru it like we do a big bowl of Chex Mix? Its been my expereince that those who scream the loudest about one doctrine and falls silent on another is doing exactly that.
We scream loudly about "standards", yet we ignore what the Bible really has to say about "holiness". If what the Bible says about one subject is absolute, then what it says on another subject is equally important.
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Actually, there was a point to what I posted about snake handling. And I think it was the same point the author of this thread attempted to make. Some on here feel very strongly about some of their beliefs. For example, regarding the role of women in the ministry. Thats not a condemnation- but, rather a simple statement of fact. They believe the writings of Paul in regards to women not preaching to be absolutely literal. No ifs, ands, and buts about it. Paul wrote what he meant and meant what he wrote. They asset there can be no deiviation from the Scriptures. If women were forbidden to speak in the assembly in the first century, they are forbidded to do so in the 21st Century.
But then, we come to Mark 16. The consensus among Apostolics is that the Gospel must be preached thru out the world. Laying hands on the sick and speaking in tongues are viable tenets of the Apostolic/Pentecostal faith. But, serpent handling The subject is comnpetely and absolutely avoided. Or is explained as "metephorical". Some have even resorted to the old "Mark 16 wasn't in the original manuscript" hogwash.
We pick and choose our "pet doctrines" like a Pentecostal buffet bar. We bark loudly when it comes to women's role in the ministry but have nothing to say about other teachings that come from the same Book. It reminds me of hearing a recording of a preacher once. He was doing a verse by verse teaching of Acts 2. When he came to verse 38, a teaching that didn't fit his doctrinal paradigm, he did the only thing he could do... he ignored the verse completely and went from verse 37, to verse 39.
As the old times use to say, "I believe the whole Book from civer to civer". But, do we really? Do we really accept the Bible as God's inerrant, infallible Word of God, or do we pick thru it like we do a big bowl of Chex Mix? Its been my expereince that those who scream the loudest about one doctrine and falls silent on another is doing exactly that.
We scream loudly about "standards", yet we ignore what the Bible really has to say about "holiness". If what the Bible says about one subject is absolute, then what it says on another subject is equally important.
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