In my experiences, Independant Baptists are not known for their scholarship. I know a few kids who went to a local I.B. High School. The school was highly anti-intellectual, anti-scholarship, anti-anything that seemed to question their conclusions. Very pharisaical in their approach to everything as well. Drinking, smoking, using the ESV, ascribing to monergism = GOING TO HELL. One of my friends was told he was going to Hell by his teacher when he answered "Yes Sir".

All in all, they strike me as some sort of wierd cult, reminiscient of Fred Phelps.

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Andrew DeShazo, Deacon, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Memphis, TN
"All of us stumble in many ways, but if anyone is never at fault in what he says, then he is mature, able to control his whole body."(James 3:2)