Freemasonry: Good, Bad, Indifferent

"Are non-Christian Freemasons led to believe that they can reach Heaven outside of professing faith in Jesus Christ?

Without question. In the long speech in the second degree, a Fellowcraft is explicitly told that they will be happy at death if “the setting splendors of a virtuous life gild his departing moments with the gentle tints of hope.” Often Freemasonry is described as an organization that exists to “make good men better.” It presupposes the basic goodness of man (at least of those who pass the initial screening of their candidacy).

If the Great Architect of the Universe the same God as the God of the Holy Bible?

It cannot be by definition since Freemasonry only requires a belief in a Supreme Being/God/god and leaves that up to the candidate to determine who/Who/what that is for them. In rural Missouri, people were basically “Christian” in their mindset (not born again mind you but simply meaning that they took their oaths on the Bible but one could have taken it on any “holy book”). The only requirement is that you cannot be a professing atheist. That kind of pluralistic approach cannot be the God of the Holy Bible.

Is there any truth to the notion that Freemasonry teaches belief in Osiris, Hours, or other Egyptian deities?

I do not recall these names in either the Blue Lodge or the Scottish Rite (however, the Scottish Rite was a weekend “marathon” in which degrees 4-32 were given and it was done “theater style” with us watching the proceedings so I have very little recollection of it)

Is the “All Seeing Eye” a representation of God?

Yes, because we are reminded that even if our actions evade the eyes of men, that all of them are seen by the “All-Seeing Eye” who will reward us according to “our merits” (yet another false doctrine, unless by “reward” they mean “judgment”)."

The False Gospel of Freemasonry: Pulpit & Pen Interviews a Former Mason

 

I think you might be right along side me on that rock. You are going to take your isolated experience in one fraternity as the standard, when those recognized as Masonic authorities don't agree with you and when my own experiences cross over two different states both of which side with the standard authorties.

I think it is a naive position to claim the Mason's is not a religious organization when in fact they do require a religious litmus test to join and they do in fact perform "Christian" burial services using the bible (or Koran in muslim countries). So watch your feet, you are about to slip off that rock!

 

And yet it was this person experience that they do. This former mason is not the only one to make this claim.

No Christian belongs to any organization that must act as if they will have their throat slit if they reveal their secrets.

 

Uh no, there are far too many former masons that took those oaths. Not fake news.

 

It is a cult group, that sees God as being whatever supreme Being that you need Him to be, to mix all religions as equal, and to have how you act and behave as standards to going to Heaven. It is really Gnostic, as they claim to have hidden spiritual truths/knowledge, and it is very deceptive and dangerous to join!

 

Uh no, no tarnishing of integrity after the following nothing more needs to be said:

"I will keep, conceal and never reveal....under no less a penalty than that of having my throat cut from ear to ear."

There is no context in which this is what a Christian should take part in. ever

 

They do teach that good works and deeds they do will enable a mason to enter into the celestial lodge, and I do know their teachings, as my father was a shriner!

 

Sorry I see that as spin. There is no logical reason to take an oath that says you would slit your throat from ear to ear and then try to spin it as not really meaning a blood other but just expelled. You typically are as very reasonable fella, but that is the dumbest thing I have seen on this board as of yet.

 

You can call it what you want but its ungodly. Christians should have no part in it.

 

Like Mormons they change their past to suit the present. Blood Oaths were the norm and probably still are in most cases. I don't care what Jon says, it is a religious organization and anyone present when they conduct a funeral knows this to be true. Just listen to guy leading the ceremony. They have a religion litmus test to enter. Try entering saying you don't believe in any god. They have a religious view of after life. They are gnostics as they claim to have superior light than any other religion. Find an older KJV Masonic family bible and you can read it for yourself rather than pay attention to either Jon or me.

 

The dead wear their while linen covering, as a sign of now having attained to being with the Supreme Architect in Heaven in the celestial Lodge. No Christian should be a part of any group that denies Jesus is Lord, and also denies you need Him toi get to heaven!