This happened with the Apostles. Go drink some gasoline if you think it's for you.[/QUOTE]
The metaphors in that parable is applied to the disciples and is not dependent on the purpose they perform "as sent ones'.(apostles) Adding meaning to "sent one" and therefore dividing the believers is
not how we can hear the our father in heaven . All believers are sent by God with the gospel . The 12 were set aside for another purpose.which is destroyed by those who desire to make the disciple more than " sent ones" the meaning of the word.
When looking at the parable in Mark 16 the proper tools for rightly dividing the parable must be applied or the unseen gospel understanding will remain hidden .(2 Corinthians 4:18) Which is very dangerous not to look for the hidden especially when it come to drinking poison. Drinking poison simply presents an opportunity for Satan a murderer from the beginning not abiding in the word of God. Satan takes advantage in that application and applies the poison of a false gospel .
It would be no different to me than if the Bible said jump out of airplane 5 miles high without a parachute .The way those who seek after a signs and wonder gospel .If they drink poison the wondering is removed and sign of a dead body will appear .
Poison is used through the bile in that way .
Psalm 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Drinking poison throughout the bible is a metaphor that speaks of the false gospel coming from false apostles .Jesus called them that make the word of God without effect a brood of vipers. (vipers have poison)
The believer that do not go above all things written in the law and the prophets (sola scriptura) will not be affected by false doctrine (poison) . .
Drinking poison is for those who the bible identifies as those who fall backward slain by the Holy Spirit, for that exact reason adding oral traditions to the word of God the poison of Asps
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; (the gospel) They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick (pray) , and they shall recover.Mark 16: 17-18
I would offer go to the foundation of the doctrine of tongue found in Isiah 28 and then look at parable like that in Mark. The unseen spiritual understanding can be compared to other portions that add to the foundation of the doctrine.of tongue which is simply prophecy the language of God. Our new tongue.
The tongue of prophets, sent one (apostles)