Snake-handling pastor, reality star dies from snakebite

[edthecynic]

Snake-handling pastor, reality star dies from snakebite

(WBIR) Kentucky Pastor Jamie Coots died from a snakebite Saturday night, according to officials and family members.
Coots starred on the reality show "Snake Salvation" alongside Pastor Andrew Hamblin, from LaFollette, who was recently in court for TWRA citations for snake-handling. The National Geographic show profiled the Pentecostal, serpent-handling preachers' fight to keep their religious traditions alive. Middlesboro Police Chief Jeff Sharpe said officials discovered that Coots died in his home at about 10 p.m. Saturday after a snake reportedly bit his hand at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name.

 

[Moonglow]

oops..

 

[edthecynic]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxVymZxekEw]Oscar Brown Jr. - The snake - YouTube[/ame]

 

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[NoNukes]

This was like a scene from the television show Justified.This guy was bitten, and then went home to lie on the couch and recover.

 

[Merchant_of_Meh]

RIP to his family.

Natural Selection was at work here though.

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[Chuckt]

God's excousia or royal right was given to the apostles. Dunamous power was given to other followers.

If you confuse the two, you get bit by snakes and die.

Excousia was provided for Jesus' earthly ministry.

They are temping God and he died.

You don't do that stuff unless you know God is with you and will deliver you.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

You don't do that stuff unless you know God is with you and will deliver you.

He thought his god was with him and would deliver him ...

Seems like he should'a prayed a little harder or increased his tithe so his god would'a taken notice of him.

OTOH, if god had been looking out for him, he wouldn't have been bitten.

If god had been looking out for his other creation, the snake, he wouldn't let fools catch and torment them in the name of "worship".

Just a whole lotta holes in this.

 

[Stephanie]

Well, you know that saying...you lay with dogs you get fleas

I guess the same should be expected you play with snakes you have a chance of getting bit

so what, there are all kinds of weird people in this country

 

[Chuckt]

You don't do that stuff unless you know God is with you and will deliver you.

He thought his god was with him and would deliver him ...

Seems like he should'a prayed a little harder or increased his tithe so his god would'a taken notice of him.

OTOH, if god had been looking out for him, he wouldn't have been bitten.

If god had been looking out for his other creation, the snake, he wouldn't let fools catch and torment them in the name of "worship".

Just a whole lotta holes in this.

There is a ratio of playing with snakes and not getting bit.

Snake handling / number of bites = chances.

When you preach something, the expectation that person puts on himself is his own doing.

God didn't tell him to pick up snakes. He assumed that. It is called an assumption.

If God told Him to take up the snake, he wouldn't have died and it would have happened. The man died so therefore God didn't tell him.

Arrogant people come into the ministry. They claim God is with them. God isn't with them. They weren't called. They do something stupid. They die. End of Story.

 

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You don't do that stuff unless you know God is with you and will deliver you.

He thought his god was with him and would deliver him ...

Seems like he should'a prayed a little harder or increased his tithe so his god would'a taken notice of him.

OTOH, if god had been looking out for him, he wouldn't have been bitten.

If god had been looking out for his other creation, the snake, he wouldn't let fools catch and torment them in the name of "worship".

Just a whole lotta holes in this.

There is a ratio of playing with snakes and not getting bit.

Snake handling / number of bites = chances.

When you preach something, the expectation that person puts on himself is his own doing.

God didn't tell him to pick up snakes. He assumed that. It is called an assumption.

If God told Him to take up the snake, he wouldn't have died and it would have happened. The man died so therefore God didn't tell him.

Arrogant people come into the ministry. They claim God is with them. God isn't with them. They weren't called. They do something stupid. They die. End of Story.

He's in heaven, now.

 

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[Papageorgio]

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

You don't do that stuff unless you know God is with you and will deliver you.

He thought his god was with him and would deliver him ...

Seems like he should'a prayed a little harder or increased his tithe so his god would'a taken notice of him.

OTOH, if god had been looking out for him, he wouldn't have been bitten.

If god had been looking out for his other creation, the snake, he wouldn't let fools catch and torment them in the name of "worship".

Just a whole lotta holes in this.

There is a ratio of playing with snakes and not getting bit.

Snake handling / number of bites = chances.

When you preach something, the expectation that person puts on himself is his own doing.

God didn't tell him to pick up snakes. He assumed that. It is called an assumption.

If God told Him to take up the snake, he wouldn't have died and it would have happened. The man died so therefore God didn't tell him.

Arrogant people come into the ministry. They claim God is with them. God isn't with them. They weren't called. They do something stupid. They die. End of Story.

The god nutters always say that 'god told them...' but you say god didn't tell him. How do you know what god told him?

Or are you saying this just one of those "god moves in mysterious ways" things and now, they'll say 'it was god's will' and they'll say 'he's in heaven now'.

What this nutter's death proves is that Darwin was right.




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[Luddly Neddite]

What this nutter's death proves is that Darwin was right.

I wonder how many here understand just how ironic that is.

The next time you think about teaching creationism instead of science, just think about it for a moment.

 

[Wolfsister77]

He was too stupid to live. He not only got bit by a snake but refused treatment.

 

[edthecynic]

He was too stupid to live. He not only got bit by a snake but refused treatment.

He had been bitten 8 times before and survived. Snakes can tell how big the victim is and usually if it is too big to eat they do not inject much venom, it is too precious to waste and takes too long to replenish leaving then vulnerable. So the odds are that he could expect the bite would not be fatal, but he is depending on the snakes calculations, which isn't very bright!

 

[Chuckt]

He thought his god was with him and would deliver him ...

Seems like he should'a prayed a little harder or increased his tithe so his god would'a taken notice of him.

OTOH, if god had been looking out for him, he wouldn't have been bitten.

If god had been looking out for his other creation, the snake, he wouldn't let fools catch and torment them in the name of "worship".

Just a whole lotta holes in this.

There is a ratio of playing with snakes and not getting bit.

Snake handling / number of bites = chances.

When you preach something, the expectation that person puts on himself is his own doing.

God didn't tell him to pick up snakes. He assumed that. It is called an assumption.

If God told Him to take up the snake, he wouldn't have died and it would have happened. The man died so therefore God didn't tell him.

Arrogant people come into the ministry. They claim God is with them. God isn't with them. They weren't called. They do something stupid. They die. End of Story.

The god nutters always say that 'god told them...' but you say god didn't tell him. How do you know what god told him?

Or are you saying this just one of those "god moves in mysterious ways" things and now, they'll say 'it was god's will' and they'll say 'he's in heaven now'.

What this nutter's death proves is that Darwin was right.




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Well lets see.

Deuteronomy 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

Deuteronomy 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

He died so Mark 16:18 wasn't spoken to him. There is a difference between deductive Bible study and inductive Bible study. Deductive is where you want to prove something and you use the Bible. Inductive is where you want to find the original meaning.

These were obviously promises for the original earthly ministry of Jesus.

See on Mark 6:5.

Wesley's Notes
16:18 If they drink any deadly thing - But not by their own choice. God never calls us to try any such experiments.

Mark 16:18 Commentaries: they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

I saw the note on Mark 6:5:

Mark 6:5 He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

The reason Jesus had to put people out who laughed Him to scorn is that you can't do miracles around unbelief.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Just goes to show, sometimes religious beliefs ARE dangerous. Also, rather than obeying the laws of G-d, he and his ilk chose instead to listen to Man:

10. There shall not be found among you anyone who passes his son or daughter through fire, a soothsayer, a diviner of [auspicious] times, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
11. or a [snake] charmer, a pithom sorcerer, a yido'a sorcerer, or a necromancer.
12. For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations, the Lord, your God is driving them out from before you.
- Deuteronomy 18

Apparently G-d's word wasn't good enough and they choose instead to hearken to men:

They will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
- Matthew 10:16

Deuteronomy 13 warns us about listening to false prophets. This is why.

 

[Agit8r]

Sometimes people can learn lessons from religion...