2007-01-16 08:24:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Palomnik....why doesn't that make me feel any better? It's just more nuts!
2007-01-16 08:42:39 · update #1
Hhahahahahahaha! Leave it to you, Gandalf! I'm assuming this is a rhetorical question.
2007-01-16 08:28:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It comes out of a reference to snakes at the end of the Gospel of Mark, so it has roots in a specific verse. However, most Biblical scholars will also point out that it comes from a text that is not part of the original manuscripts of Mark.
How it evolved as a practice is beyond me, though.
2007-01-16 08:32:14 · answer #2 · answered by carwheelsongravel1975 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read a couple of books about them before you dis them... "Salvation on Sand Mountain" for example. They're good people. Just a little crazy.
IMHO (and I've never been to a snake-handling church), their religion has more to do with shamanic techniques of ecstasy than with Christianity. You can see parallel phenomena in all religions -- such as the Rufaiyyah Sufis, who pierce themselves with skewers to achieve altered states of consciousness, for example.
2007-01-16 08:34:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think they are tempting God by handling snakes just because they can. Jesus could have jumped off the cliff but he said not to tempt God by doing such things.
2007-01-16 09:27:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, because Jesus said that you should not tempt your God, nor put him to the test.
2007-01-16 08:33:40 · answer #5 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pshhh, course not LOL..
2007-01-16 08:30:48 · answer #6 · answered by Dink 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny you should ask.......
2007-01-16 08:30:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋