Bible Trivia: Apple Anyone?

In Mark 16: 16-18, Jesus tells his followers that they can:

A:  regrow lost limbs

B:  handle snakes

C:  fight tigers

D:  battle demons

 and that's how you make a robe out of toilet paper

ANSWER: B


 ¹⁶ Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. ¹⁷ And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; ¹⁸ they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

Handle snakes?

 I call this little guy Mr. Bubbles

From Wikipedia:

George Went Hensley (1880–1955) introduced snake handling practices into the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), circa 1910.^[2] He later resigned his ministry and started the first holiness movement church to require snake handling as evidence of salvation.^[3][4] Sister-churches later sprang up throughout the Appalachian region.^[1]

 wow!  perhaps this stuff is real after all

Some of the leaders in these churches have been bitten numerous times, as indicated by their distorted extremities. Hensley himself, the founder of modern snake handling in the Appalachian Mountains, died from fatal snakebite in 1955.^[6]


Oh, perhaps not...


Interestingly enough, when you go online and take a look at these passages on the internet's number one bible source, there is a disclaimer that says:

What does that mean?  That the bible isn't a historically accurate and that things may have gotten added later?  Are people trying to pump up Jesus and credit him with saying things that he never really did?