Proof that Pentecostals are not loved by the Lord as much as we Baptists are.
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If they were True Christians™, this snake bite would not have harmed him, as Jesus tells us.
Mark 16:17-19
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
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Pastor Jamie Coots, snake-handling TV preacher, dies of viper’s bite
Coots, the star of National Geographic's 'Snake Salvation' refused medical attention for the snake bite, dying in his Kentucky home. The pastor was praised for his 'devout religious convictions' despite the danger.
By Doyle Murphy / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Sunday, February 16, 2014, 1:49 PM
Updated: Sunday, February 16, 2014, 3:48 PM
Shelley Mays/The Tennessean/AP
Jamie Coots, pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church of Middlesboro, Ky., died Saturday of a snake bite.
A snake-handling TV preacher died on Saturday of a snake bite.
Pastor Jamie Coots, the star of “Snake Salvation,” was bitten on the right hand at his Kentucky church, Middlesborough police said.
The Pentecostal holy man refused to go to the hospital or accept any medical treatment, police said.
Coots, whose show appeared on National Geographic’s television channel, believed snake handling was a commandment from God and a viper’s bite was God’s will.
“When I first started church I said if I ever went to a hospital or a doctor over a snake bite I would quit church,” Coots said in one episode.
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He had previously survived a bite that cost him most of the middle finger on his right hand. Instead seeking medical attention for the gruesome injury, he let it rot to black, exposing a quarter inch of bone before it broke off.
He kept the stub of the finger in a glass jar for his wife.
“To me it’s as much of a commandment from God when he said, ‘they shall take up serpents’ as it was when he ‘thou shall not commit adultery,” Coots said on the show of snake handling.
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