I don’t know any Freemasons but from what I’ve read i have mixed views. I don’t like the idea of a secret society but I hear they like doing things for charity. So I don’t know what I think of them.
Oh and they believe in God, but which one?
May I list the reasons why Freemasonry is not compatible with Christianity.
I would also say that The Catholic Church has been one of the oldest and most persistent critics of Freemasonry.
Also, I would say from personal observations that the Southern Baptist denomination has been one of those who has allowed Masonry.
The Southern Baptist Convention has never issued a resolution about Freemasonry, until 1993 when the denomination commissioned a report on the group from one of their agencies, the North American Mission Board (NAMB). The report accepted by the convention identified eight tenets and teachings of Freemasonry that, it concluded, were
not compatible with Christianity.
Being at the 2002 National Convention, I was very disturbed Tand disappointed that the report ultimately recommends the issue be left to the conscience of the believer instead of condemning Freemasonry outright.
1. Freemasonry is a religion.
There is no room for any reasonable doubt as to Masonry’s being a religion. Not only do the symbols, rites and temples of this order point unmistakably to it as a religion, but a great many Masonic authors of note emphatically declare it to be just that. Of almost numberless quotations that could be given here the committee has selected a few.
2.
Freemasonry involves and promotes idolatry.
Masonry is guilty of idolatry. Its worship and prayers are idol worship. The Masons may not with their hands have made an idol out of gold, silver, wood or stone, but they created one with their own mind and reason out of purely human thoughts and ideas. The latter is an idol no less than the former......... Source –
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
3.
ALL Freemasons swear secret oaths.
Before a candidate can become a Freemason, one must swear an oath upon initiation to the Great Architect of the Universe.
That oath is..........."binding myself under no less penalty than to have my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea at low water-mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours; so help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same."
The Scriptures strictly forbid this kind of oath-taking.
4.
Freemasonry promotes universalism.
“The heresy of universalism (the belief all people will eventually be saved) which permeates the writings of many Masonic authors, which is a doctrine inconsistent with New Testament teaching.” Source –
Southern Baptist Convention, 2002.
5.
Freemasonry promotes a works-based view of salvation.
“Confidence in these secret orders and their teachings has always tended toward the embracing of a false hope of salvation through good works and improved moral service (
Eph. 2:8–9).” Source –
Assemblies of God.
6.
Freemasonry promotes a false claim about the name of God.
The most serious theological objection to Freemasonry for Christians lies in the name given to the Supreme Being in the rituals of the Royal Arch degree. One of the secrets revealed in this degree is that the name of the Supreme Being is JAHBULON.
Now, all of that is being said so that anyone reading this will have a serious conversation with God and ask Him if this is something you need to be involved in !
i dont know everything about the masons .my dad was a master mason and his bro was a mason and my gpa.
