Snake handler
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Thread has more potential than 99.99 % of those posted here . #sinner
The most badass Kentucky snake handler, at the Kentucky Reptile Zoo
If your on Facebook, the Kentucky Reptile Zoo is a pretty cool one to follow. He posts venom extraction videos a few times a week. I always like when he does the Spitting Cobras.
Fat kid ?? the average weight of the congregation is 354.8 ... SMH
Th entire thing is just surreal . I guess ole pops wouldnt passed if he didnt have all that sin in his life . The dad died 4 years ago from a snake bite
I'll be honest...I'm a puss. F anything that has to do with a snake...cept killin!
I went to high school (Middlesboro) w/Jamie Coots
I think that's thisssss dude's dad (late dad?)
I think that's thisssss dude's dad (late dad?)
Handling venomous snakes in a pink suit and gets bit in the face and survives. If you can't respect that, what can you respect?
What is with the fat chick trying to set her arm on fire? If she is going to play with fire, she needs to try this.
Should have let "God judge him" like he wanted. Would have been interesting to see if he was saved.
It's interesting how churches say the trust in Lord and he will protect us. Then you see they have lightning arrestors on their roofs.
So Lord told me that if I give my cat belly rubs and he purrs... I'm heaven bound and a saint... but if he claws me then I'm a dirty sinner...
...... Well he enjoyed belly rubs so suck it everyone.... I'm a saint... lol
...... Well he enjoyed belly rubs so suck it everyone.... I'm a saint... lol
I'm born and raised in Bell County.
This bunch got in trouble years ago for keeping deadly snakes around their children.
I used to make some extra money catching copperheads and selling them to the local snake handlers.
This bunch got in trouble years ago for keeping deadly snakes around their children.
I used to make some extra money catching copperheads and selling them to the local snake handlers.
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Was surveying in Harlan County in the early 1980's . Had to ask permission to cross the property of a man that had a house pretty much built into the side of a mountain. He was very cordial but there was something strange about him. As we were leaving he asked if we would like to see his snakes. My co-worker and I both thought that he had stuffed snakes or snakes in a jar. He had a chicken coop next to his house with a very shallow wooden box covered by a screen door frame. There were 13 Copperheads and 11 Rattlesnakes all bundled up together in this box spitting and hissing as they were pretty mad. He had a golf club with a rope through it and a noose on the end that he used to catch the snakes. He gave a "demonstration" with one of the copperheads and scared the hell out of both of us as he turned it loose inside the coop then retrieved it. He told us that he caught them behind his house and used them in church services. He invited us to his "church" for Prayer Meeting and gave us a booklet with pictures of their services. I had heard of this stuff before but never thought it was really true until that experience. In the book there were pictures of people wrapping these snakes around their head and neck really close to their faces. Also had pictures of people hooking themselves up to large batteries and burning themselves with blow torches. Needless to say, we did not attend Prayer Meeting that night.
If you get bit enough, the body developes an immunity. That's how they get bit and usually live. It still causes damage just not lethal. That's why those people have drawed up fingers and hands. On the show "ax men", that nut Shelby bit the head off of a cottonmouth and it bit his lip. He said he had been bit so many times by cottonmouths that it didnt even make him sick anymore. Theres a trick to the poison they drink too. Drink a little and it kills you, drink alot and it wont. Im not a holy roller but im pretty sure the Bible says something about "do not tempt the Lord they God". Whatever, to each his own.
Last time I was in Middlesboro I saw a kid with no shirt on.....kool aid (? unverified ?) stains around his maw / mouth......and what appeared to be PUDGY FAT HAIRY LITTLE HOBBIT FEET .... with no shoes.....
I just stopped and stared.....like......it was like seeing a tragically deformed Fukushima Fish trying to crawl onto shore in Chinos ....
and that's when this young man shouted at the top of his little lungs........"DADDAW!!!!!!!"
DADDAW!!!!!
What the ACTUAL FK....is a DADDAW????
Whatever the role......."DADDAW" was expected to buy the Tragic Hill-Hobbit....a new PS Game
PS: Turns out the "HAIRY FEET".........were dirt covered
I still tell this story to my own children ....normally with a haunted look in the eye and a glass of good merlot in my hand.....
Life can be scary, Folks
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For some reason, and I can't find any Bible verse that relates to this, they were also burning themselves with blow torches and hooking up to batteries. Appeared to be a lot of self abuse and I don't know if it was a faith thing or not.
Are they the family that was on discovery channel reality series two or three years ago?
What these people are doing has nothing to do with the Bible - putting God to the test to save them from venomous snakes - this is why there is absolutely no actual scriptural support for what they do.
As far as "not putting God to the test" - there are many scriptures that deal with this throughout the Bible - for example in the laws given to Israel as in Deuteronomy 6:16.
Also, Jesus reply to Satan is recorded in all four Gospels (Example: Luke 4:12) not to "put God to the test".
(If even the Son of God doesn't put him to the test, what makes these snake handlers so special?)
Ironically, as it applies to this topic 1st Corinthians 10:9 references the many Israelites that died by snake bites after putting God to the test. (Numbers 21:5)
This is why Christians wear seat belts and go to the doctor when they are sick.
I have a friend who has been a dealer of exotic pets, primarily venomous snakes. In fact, he was connected to one in the news a couple of months ago. It was pretty funny to me that he said that looked like a timber rattler and he hates the things. He said they have a terrible temperament and are way too unpredictable.
BTW, if any of you are ever in south eastern KY on a Sunday morning, I urge you to turn your radio on and start scanning stations. I have heard speaking in tongues, wailing, crying, and condemnation of pretty anything I have ever done or may do in the future. I'm honestly a little scared of any church I'm not already familiar with now.
BTW, if any of you are ever in south eastern KY on a Sunday morning, I urge you to turn your radio on and start scanning stations. I have heard speaking in tongues, wailing, crying, and condemnation of pretty anything I have ever done or may do in the future. I'm honestly a little scared of any church I'm not already familiar with now.
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I agree, but they seem to be using Bible verses mentioning serpents as a pretense for this kind of behavior. I can see where one would pick out certain passages mentioning serpents or snakes to try and justify this craziness, but I could not understand how one would intentionally burn or shock themselves to prove their faith.
This practice is taken from Mark 16:17-18:
"These signs will accompany those who believe. They will cast out demons in my name and they will speak in new languages. They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink something poisonous, it won't hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick and heal them."
The problem. In the earliest and best manuscripts, Mark 16: 9-20 are not included. This will usually be noted in footnotes or italicized in most later Bible versions (but not in the King James Version).
The original ending at verse 8 is so abrupt and leaves out so many things stated in the other Gospels (Mark is considered by most as the earliest Gospel) that it is believed by scholars that later copyists added material from the other Gospels to make it more "satisfying." It proved to be so "satisfying" to readers that they got kept in the KJV.
Any serious Bible student and all Biblical scholars know that it is not in itself original inspired Scripture. But it has been recognized and noted as a relatively harmless addition (since much of it is in the other Gospels, but not the snake-handling or poison-drinking parts). Except. A small group of believers, usually in the mountains, with uneducated preachers, latched on to snake-handling and poison-drinking as not a promise of protection from accidents (like Paul in Acts 28:3-6) but as a COMMANDMENT from God as a test of one's faith.
To them, the KJV rules. To deviate from the 1611 KJV is to deviate from THE word of God ("If the KJV was good enough for Paul, it's good enough for me."). You won't convince them otherwise.
"These signs will accompany those who believe. They will cast out demons in my name and they will speak in new languages. They will be able to handle snakes with safety, and if they drink something poisonous, it won't hurt them. They will be able to place their hands on the sick and heal them."
The problem. In the earliest and best manuscripts, Mark 16: 9-20 are not included. This will usually be noted in footnotes or italicized in most later Bible versions (but not in the King James Version).
The original ending at verse 8 is so abrupt and leaves out so many things stated in the other Gospels (Mark is considered by most as the earliest Gospel) that it is believed by scholars that later copyists added material from the other Gospels to make it more "satisfying." It proved to be so "satisfying" to readers that they got kept in the KJV.
Any serious Bible student and all Biblical scholars know that it is not in itself original inspired Scripture. But it has been recognized and noted as a relatively harmless addition (since much of it is in the other Gospels, but not the snake-handling or poison-drinking parts). Except. A small group of believers, usually in the mountains, with uneducated preachers, latched on to snake-handling and poison-drinking as not a promise of protection from accidents (like Paul in Acts 28:3-6) but as a COMMANDMENT from God as a test of one's faith.
To them, the KJV rules. To deviate from the 1611 KJV is to deviate from THE word of God ("If the KJV was good enough for Paul, it's good enough for me."). You won't convince them otherwise.
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And to them, it's not "putting God to the test" to save them. From their perspective, it's a test of themselves, of the strength of their own faith, to save.
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It does seem to be a very small sect of people doing this kind of thing and it is in the mountains. Wish I had their booklet as I'd post some shots.
Methinks the "snake handler" thread isn't tapping its full potential...Two champion "snake handlers"
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