[ThenThereWasRED]

Some independent Baptists ARE TOO legalistic. :sigh: My church was an independent Baptist and joined the Southern Baptist almost 2 years ago. It's been a good thing too.

Even though my church uses KJV to teach/preach, my pastor has said there's nothing wrong with using some other translations to help in studying.

The problem I have with people who say, KJV only is that it's *English* and what about people who speak a different language? Does that make their translations inferior and if the KJV is the *perfect* translation, does God not care about other language speaking people? Scripture says, it will not come back void. There is some translations better than others.

If you look at it in that way then you can see a different side.

A pastor friend of my parents went to speak at another church (independent) at a revival. They had a sign of *do's & don'ts* in the foyer. One was not stated properly...what they meant to say is no females would be allowed to wear pants in the church. The pastor saw one of the *rules* said, *no pants* and he jokingly ask the pastor if he should leave since he had pants on. The pastor there got the point and removed the sign.

Too many people make rules that breaks the heart of God. We should study scripture and see what it says, without getting twisted by a person's opinion.