Is this Bible verse about believers and poison to be taken literally?

Faith WE are obviously done then since the historical church has,no doubt,it's own dictionary which is accesible only to beleivers.Oh,how silly we were to think that meaning would be availanble to all rather than only those with "special" understanding.

Faith But that is just the point.The passage in Mark is supposedly by Jesus after he is risen and spoke to the eleven disciples about their unbelief. Christ is saying to the disciples,without reference to ny passage in acts or otherwise,that if they believe and be baptised then there will be signs to prove such.He then states the signs will be as follows If they believe and are baptised.Jesus said nothing further. He did not mention any other qualification.It is available to all who believe and are baptised.We can also see the similar attribute further expressed here.Again it is a admonishment of the disciples unbelief. This is it my dear friends.I do not give a rat's butt about your claim to "knowing" the real meaning of the scripture.Your own central figure in your spiritual exploration has stated that "nothing shall be impossible to you". It is available to all who believe and who are baptised.What the blue bloody blazes is preventing you from doing so? You are admonished by your god to believe and you still cannot. You can end world hunger with but asking for it and you will not.You can prevent the death of innocents with a word.Please do us all a favour here and believe.Then every single person here will be a convert without fail I am sure.Either do not state that it is not what it means or please quit saying that you believe.

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And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of

PecosGeorge The phrase concerning poison is purported to have been spoken by Christ to his disciples yet you say to do so is to tempt god yet his son said it was okay. HMM, I must say here that I think you believing Christians{my apologies to Phatboy and jar} are twisting the facts to avoid the obvious truth that to follow the test of faith Christ himself declared to be within the power of those who have faith is suicide plain and simple.
The reason you do not attempt such has nothing to do with tempting god and everything to do with knowing that such a thing is not possible regardless of the level of faith.I think Christ would say you were a hypocrite.

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And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of

Faith No.These signs shall foolow them that believe "In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
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."And how do you determine whether they have drunk any deadly thing?In this other verse we get a different take on the capabilities of faith Now if you were to say unto a mountain remove hence to yonder do you seriously think that such would occur?Let me repeat the last sentence loudly.AND NOTHING SHALL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU.Is there something that is vague and obtuse about the sentence?It says NOTHING...SHALL...BE...IMPOSSIBLE...FOR...YOU. Not Paul, not Christ, not anyone else,YOU.
Do something impossible.Do not give me the hackneyed excuse that you are tempting god.Satan is not involved.JESUS CHRIST said this is possible.Are you denying this?Please explain why he would lie and say such a thing if it was not a fact.Instead of giving me the run around do something impossible.
Let me help you.Pick any outstanding natural feature of the region you live in and irrevocably alter it so that it is utterly against the laws of physics in the same vein as Christ's example of a mountain.Live up to your forum name and remember it need only be the size of a mustard seed ok.Oh and unless there is some misunderstanding on definition mustard seeds are really small.

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And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of