The Freemason Controversy Discerning the Differences between the Masonic Lodge and Christianity

Mike Petillo

Introduction

Chapter 1:              Is Freemason Revelation Authentic?

Chapter 2:              Is the God of Freemasonry Biblical?

Chapter 3:              Is the Jesus of the Craft Biblical?

Chapter 4:              Is the Holy Spirit of Freemasonry Biblical?

Chapter 5:              Is Man Basically Good?

Chapter 6:              Is Salvation Obtained by Good Works?

Chapter 7:              Who Will Dwell With God in Eternity?

Introduction

                These chapters are presentations of God’s divine truth for a Freemason who wants to understand the essential difference between Freemasonry and biblical Christianity.  Many people are caught up with Freemasonry.  Some may believe it is true, and submit to its religiousness.  They may submit to it because it is a system of moral teachings with religious implications.  They may also be attracted to it because it has social benefits.  It is also true that Freemasons lack knowledge about what Freemasonry actually teaches.  My passion is to present a loving and compassionate presentation of the gospel of Christ to Freemasons.  This book is designed for Freemasons who claim to be Christians.  There are other issues related to Freemasonry that have not been covered in this book.  It covers the major areas of Christian doctrine. 

I’m not ashamed to own my Lord, or to defend his cause, maintain the honor of his Word, the glory of his cross.  Jesus, my God! I know his name, his name is all my trust; nor will he put my soul to shame, nor let my hope be lost.  Firm as his throne his promise stands, and he can well secure what I’ve committed to his hands till the decisive hour.   Then will he own my worthless name before his Father’s face, and in the new Jerusalem appoint my soul a place.[1]

These days it seems that some people who claim to be Christian are caught up in Freemasonry.  This book exposes the sins of Freemasonry regarding matters of doctrine.  Only a person willing to recognize their sin, by God’s grace, will be transformed.  If there was only one Christian person in Freemasonry, this book would still be meant for you.  If someone does not believe in the essentials of biblical Christianity, and considers themselves a Christian, it is still good for you to read this book to gain an understanding of what true Christianity teaches. Perhaps God will work in your heart about the Christian faith.  If someone believes Freemasonry, and claims to be a Christian, this book is meant for you.  If you are a Reformed Christian, and you desire to hear a presentation of divine truth in refutation of falsehood, this presentation of God’s Word is also for you. 

The question is: what do Christians believe?  Some people think Christians can believe whatever they want.  What does a Christian believe?  The statement of faith of what Christians believe is set forth in the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) or the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 (LCF).  This author is a Reformed Baptist, and gladly submits to the LCF.  Christians believe the Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian Creed.  We firmly believe in the Chalcedon Definition.  These summaries of the Christian faith show the essentials of Christianity.  If someone denies the essentials of the Christian faith, he or she can no longer be called a true Christian.  Are not these essentials of the Christian faith?  Doesn’t each religion have their own affirmations and denials about what constitutes their kind of faith?  If someone denies the affirmations, and affirms the denials; do we not have a different religion altogether?  H.L. Haywood of The Great Teachings of Masonry said, “Freemasonry is a religious mysticism.” [2]

                We shall see that the denial of the Bible as the sole infallible source of special revelation; the God of the Bible as one true God; the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit; the radical corruption of mankind; justification by faith alone and God’s true Christian people will dwell with God’s holy angels in the adoration of the Blessed Trinity forevermore.  These are fundamental truths of the Christian faith.  Someone cannot be a Christian and deny them.  We see that Roman Catholicism and Arminianism deny the radical corruption of man.  It is a non-Christian interpretation of divine Scripture to attribute any goodness to mankind.  It is an interpretation based purely on tradition. 

                What is the basis for religious belief?  Is the basis for religious belief an infallible Church, or a Masonic lodge?  Is “the human light…but [a] imperfect reflection of a ray of the Infinite and Divine?”[3] Or are the Christian Scriptures the sole infallible source for religious faith and morals?  The alleged basis for Freemasonry is ancient teachings of God.  “Masonry…is their spiritual descendant, and renders much the same ministry to our age which the mysteries rendered to the olden world…This at least is true: the Greater Ancient Mysteries were prophetic of Masonry.”[4]

                The understanding of what Freemasons believe is used from H. Wayne House author of Charts of Cults, Sects & Religious Movements (Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 2000), pp. 139-147.  The book is designed to lovely target Masons who claim to be Christian to the true Christian faith.  It is a fundamental falsehood that a Christian can be a Mason, or a Mason a Christian.  This author is not saying that Masonry does not allow Christians in their lodges.  What this author is saying is it is a falsehood to even suggest that a Christian can be a Mason.  That is, it is inconsistent.  The teachings of biblical Christianity and Masonry fundamentally oppose each other.  It is the hope of this author that you will read and understand and believe God’s divine Reformed truth.  It is the hope and prayer of this author that people will be convicted of their sin and turn from their sin:  “…Repent, and believe in the gospel” (Mark 1:15 NKJV).  Hear the voice from heaven in Scripture, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities” (Revelation 18:4-5 NKJV).

Chapter 1:

Is Freemason Revelation Authentic?

1Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,

2"Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."

3And He answered and said to them, "Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

4"For God said, 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER,' and, 'HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH.'

5"But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "Whatever I have that would help you has been given to God,"

6he is not to honor his father or his mother.' And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition (Matthew 15:1-6 NASB).

The divine Scriptures clearly teach a message of binding on the conscience because of the nature of Scripture itself and the testimony of Christ about Scripture.  We can say that it is truly timeless unlike any book because the nature of Scripture is immutable.  Christ supports the Scripture as being the divine Word of God.  Christ is the Incarnate Word of God, and the Scriptures are the written Word of God: alive and active.  May people submit to Scripture where we can plainly see the depths and riches of the Word of the King!  Scripture speaks of the Words of Christ as nothing less then the Word of God.  When Christ speaks, we can be absolutely sure that it is God’s special revelation to man.  Let’s turn to the words of the divine Word where we see Christ rebuking the Pharisees and scribes.  They came to Him, and He is the Living Incarnate Word.  They inquired about His very disciples who broke the tradition of the elders.  Christ is the Incarnate Head and Master of His disciples.  His disciples look to Him to understand truth.  We should look to Him to understand truth.  We sho0uld not look to other religions.  It was not that Christ simply had a different opinion then the Pharisees and scribes, but what He spoke is the literal Word of God.  All of Scripture is the literal Word of God, and it is to be treated as such.  To say it is the literal Word of God is not to say we pervert Scripture but claim what it actually is: a noun as a noun, a hyperbole as a hyperbole, a parable as a parable, etc.  God has really spoken, and it is exclusively in His Word.  As Christ is exclusively the divine Savior, and there is no other Savior (Acts 4:12), so too, is the Christian Bible exclusively God’s only true revelation.

They referred to the disciples of Christ who did not wash their hands.  Christ did not practice the traditions of the Pharisees and scribes.  He believed and practiced the Law of God in the Word of God.  Christ was asked a question, and He responded with a question.  The holy and blessed way of Christ is to refute, rebuke and rightly counter His opponents.  Christ answered them, and spoke the way of His Holy Father.  His response was not merely like other teachers, but He spoke the Words from His Father in heaven.  His Words are priceless, pure, divine and matchless.  Here Christ stands for the Word of God.  But what Word did He defend here?  He defended the Word of His Father, the very Scripture themselves (seen in the Old Testament).  Christ answered by saying you sin against God because of your tradition.  Here tradition is elevated above Scripture.  The right way is Scripture over any man-made tradition.  A tradition of men believes that man is basically good.  Scientology is a clear example of adhering to man-made tradition over against the clear testimony of Scripture (Romans 3ff). 

Christ refutes them with a divine question, from the very lips of Incarnate Deity.  He immediately goes to what God said.  Christ believed that Scripture is God speaking to man, for He said “For God said…”  He refers to what divine Scriptures say, and contrasts what they say that is in explicit error.  They nullified the Scriptures for the sake of their tradition.  There are biblical traditions and unbiblical traditions.  Here Christ draws attention to their unbiblical tradition, and He uses the Word of God to counter their position.  Will you believe God, or will you believe what man has said?  Choose this day who you will serve: God or man.  Unbiblical traditions are seen in Freemasonry.  To honor a “holy” book of Islam is to dishonor Scripture.  To be apart of a group that honors the Koran as divine Scripture is a stench in the nostrils of God; for it dishonors God.  Did Christ honor book of other religions as divine Scripture?  You will never find an example of such a perversion.  To deny the deity of Christ is to deny your soul salvation in heaven.  To believe that special revelation is something more then sacred Scripture is to rest your hopes on the inspiration of man rather then the inspiration of God.  Rest your hearts and hopes on holy Writ alone: submit to the Christ of Scripture. 

Their tradition was to ceremonially wash their hands.  It clearly invalidated the Word of God.  It seems to our minds that ceremonially washing one’s hands is merely a small matter.  But as small as this may seem, it was a mortal sin against God and His holy Word.  If washing one’s hands caused Christ to rebuke them, and refer them to the Scriptures as a divine and heavenly correction, how much more does the traditions of mixed standards of authority, doctrines that speaks of the goodness of man, and denial in practice of the Triune God enrage the God of the Bible whom people claim to “serve” with their lips but deny Him by what they practice?  How much more do their doctrines enrage the God of Scripture?  Christ proclaimed that there would be people who honored Him with their lips, and yet their hearts were far from Him.  But the wise man is the man who puts into practice the things King Jesus has declared.  Man is attracted to the religiousness of man-made designs that leads to bondage of the soul.  Good works are done, not out of love for the all-sufficient Savior, but to merit heaven.  Such works end in dust, and are equal to filthy rages.  No human works of men will avail before God.  Eternal life, in truth is a gift, not to be earned.  The tenets of Freemasonry deny essentials truths found in holy Writ.

Only the merit and righteousness and worthiness of Christ alone avail in the place of His elect people only.  Your works are tainted with sin.  How, then, will you stand before a holy and just God who demands perfect righteousness?  Turn to Islam, and you get the teaching to adhere to the law to save us.  Turn to Hinduism, and you must practice yoga to break reincarnation.  The schemes of men to enter heaven are at best deception and at worst end in the second death.  The man-made religions of men are inventions of human free will, and the pride of man rises because they foolishly think they control their destinies.  Different revelations provide different teachings that create foolish muddled teachings on matters of religion.  Understand the Word of God as the sole infallible source for life, morals and faith.  To understand Scripture properly, one must interpret Scripture by Scripture:  Scripture interprets Scripture.  The ancient church fathers and the very Reformers themselves taught this sacred truth.  What is implicit in Scripture must be interpreted in light of the explicit in Scripture.  The explicit meaning of Scripture is not to be apart of approving or honoring other books of religion. 

To bring an assumption of all religions serving the God of Masonry is to misrepresent the God of the Bible.  The presumption of Masonry is that all religions that are represented must be honored the same as the Bible.  But I ask you: do you not realize the sacred artifact of history you read and know as the divine Word of God?  It is far more then the errant pages of Islam, or the ways of Hinduism.  It is the priceless truth, and it is the matchless Word.  As Christ Himself is unlike any prophet, for He was the Incarnate prophet, so too, is the Word of God:  it is not comparable to books of other religions.  Christ believed and taught that Scripture is the Word of God.  He believed the Scriptures were unbreakable, inerrant, infallible and divine.  Go to the divine Scriptures to understand religious truth, and embrace it as if your life depended upon it.  Don’t be like Herod who liked the things of God, and yet hated Christ, and wanted to kill Him.  No, believe the Word and practice it.  Honor the Word the way Christ did.  He loved the Word of God for He was the Word of God.  Do you suppose He loved the “holy” books of religions of men?  No, Christ detests books of the evil one, but He loves the Word, for it is pure. 

What true Christians know about Christianity has been revealed to us by God Himself.  The God of the holy Scriptures has revealed to us in an unveiling matter in His holy, blessed and heavenly written Word of God.  To reveal something involves something in which is concealed.  This is the same thing in our knowledge of God.  Speculation about God’s knowledge is fool’s errand.  If Christians wish to know God Himself, believers must rely on the product from the source in what God says about Himself.  Holy Scripture demonstrates that the Triune God reveals Himself in a variety of ways.  But God does not reveal Himself through the revelation of other religions.  He has not set-up a religion where men of all faiths can believe a worldly system of views.  His ways of doing things are not the ways of human beings.  He has a Word, and it is both Old and New Testaments alone.  Scripture did not fall from heaven but was rightly written by holy men of old. 

God exhibits His glory and majesty through creation.  Even the God of Masonry is not the God of creation, for Scriptures speaks of the God of creation revealed in the sacred pages of holy Writ.  Holy Writ provides the only true Word about the true God of creation.  The God of creation is the God of the Bible, and the God of the Bible is the God of creation.  God has unveiled Himself through visions and dreams.  The marking of His providence is demonstrated in the scripts of history.  God has revealed Himself in sacred Scripture in and through time in His chosen inerrant Scriptures.  The peak of God’s most heavenly revelation is found in Jesus Christ of Nazareth.  Theologians call the peak of God’s revelation, the Incarnation of Jesus Christ.  No prophet can compare with this divine Nazarene.  God has revealed Himself in various ways (Heb. 1:1-2). 

The holy Scriptures identifies various ways in which God Himself unveiled Himself.  There are two distinct types of revelation: general revelation and special revelation.  General revelation tells the people of the earthly knowledge that God subsists, exists or is real.  Romans 1:18-23 speaks to the truthful reality that there are no real atheists.  To which God do you owe allegiance?  Do you owe allegiance to the true God of Holy Scripture?  Surrender to Him alone.  The God revealed in creation is Creator, and the God revealed in Scripture is Creator and Redeemer.  General revelation in creation does not provide a complete revelation of God Himself.  General revelation does not provide us with God as Redeemer as is explicitly revealed in divine Scripture.  We discover God as Redeemer in Scripture.  Do other “sacred” books show the true Christ, and do they provide revelation as the Christian Bible?  Scripture has the presence of Christ as Redeemer, and creation has the absence of Christ as Redeemer, but a sure fact of God being Creator.  The God of general revelation is the same God revealed in Scripture.  Scripture tells us about the God Who Created.  God created all things, yet He does not redeem all people.  Religions speak of God being the Almighty Creator.  But the divine remedy for sin is vastly different when compared to biblical Christianity. 

1Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

2And after He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.

3And the tempter came and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."

4But He answered and said, "It is written, 'MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.'"

5Then the devil took Him into the holy city and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple,

6and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written,
         'HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU';
         and
         'ON their HANDS THEY WILL BEAR YOU UP,
         SO THAT YOU WILL NOT STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.'"

7Jesus said to him, "On the other hand, it is written, 'YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.'"

8Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;

9and he said to Him, "All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me."

10Then Jesus said to him, "Go, Satan! For it is written, 'YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.'"

11Then the devil left Him; and behold, angels came and began to minister to Him.  (Matthew 4:1-11 NASB).

What book did the Lord Jesus Christ (the Sinless Incarnate King) turn too?  Was it to the Koran?  It was not around at that time but if it was, would Christ have turned to it?  Or was it to books of other ancient religions?  Tell me, what book did He turn to?  What source did He use to rebuke and subdue Satan?  He turned to the matchless and Holy Word of God.  He turned to the pure Word, “And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times” (Psalm 12:6 NASB).  God’s Word is flawless.  What, then, is equal to it?  What depths of divinity, what purity of words, what sense of awe, and what truth it brings!  What is the highest example we ought to take?  Isn’t the Lord Jesus Christ the greatest example we can follow?  You believe that He is a great moral teacher.  If this is so, why do you not heed what He says when He turns to rebuke Satan?  Isn’t it sinful to do what is contrary to what Jesus did?  Doesn’t He show you by what the Word of God says: that He revered the divine Scripture as not a book among many books, but the book of all books, the book that brings life to a dead soul?  Have you not read?    “…MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD” (Matthew 4:4 NASB).  It is the Word of God alone that is the foundation of all Christian belief.  It is the Word of God alone that proceeds out of the mouth of God.  It is the Word of God alone that binds the heart and mind of a human being.  It is the Word of God alone that was written by holy men of God by the power of God the Spirit.  It is the Word of God alone that is the Sword of the Spirit.  It the Word of God alone that brings a life-changing and transforming heart!  Is it the Word of God alone that can sufficiently counter Satan?  We even see Satan himself turn to the Word of God.  Why?  Even he knows it is the ultimate authority.  He turns to it because he knows that Christ is its Author, and he turns to it to try to manipulate Jesus Christ.  Satan knows that the divine Word of God is sufficient for faith, life and morals.  This is the reason he turns to it; not that he really believes it, but because he knows it is the sole infallible authority for Christ, and he turns to get the Lord Jesus Omnipotent to sin, but he utterly fails, and his ways end in defeat.  It is by the Word of God alone that Christ defeats Satan.

Like Satan some human beings interpret Scripture but they do so wrongly.  Satan is an angel of light, and according to the Craft in passing, he is highly exalted by Albert Pike.[5]  This author submits that Freemasonry is heavily engaged in nature worship.[6]  Turn to Christ Who defeated Satan, and you will find Christ in the spotless written Word of God.  As the Spirit was with, upon and in Jesus Christ as He went into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil, so too, is the divine and personal Holy Ghost solely inspired the supernatural Scriptures, and the Spirit of protection is surely with His beloved people.  But when Satan tempts the Lord Jesus He always goes to sacred Scripture.  Do you always go to sacred Scripture as Jesus did?  To always go to Scripture means that you do not revere and honor errant books of religions that are devoid of the Spirit of trustworthiness, truth and total perfection.  Turning to the book of all books alone is to honor the Christ of Scripture.  Honor, then, this Christ of Scripture Who took the place of His people.  Do you suppose you honor Him by avoiding His deity, and putting other books of religion along side of the sacred Book of Scripture?  The question is, if the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Truth, Authored the Christian Bible alone; doesn’t this conclusively prove without a shadow of a doubt that the Christian Bible should be trusted and revered alone?  We see Christ who turned to the Scripture; for did He not say?  "On the other hand, it is written, 'YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST” (Matthew 4:7 NASB). And He said, "Go, Satan! For it is written, 'YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY” (Matthew 4:10 NASB).  The Old Testament was not a collection of books that did not have primary authority in the ministry and teaching of Jesus Christ.  Rather the Old Testament has primary and ultimate authority on matters of faith.  When we look to the Old Testament we see God-Breathed Scripture, and ultimately God speaking to man.  This is so vitally important.  If you understand that Scripture is God speaking to man, you shall understand its eternal importance!  The divine Word alone can bind the conscience of depraved man.  Christ turns to Scripture to rebuke Satan, and give the most glory to God.  Let us remember this precious truth of Scripture, and model ourselves after the great Incarnate Savior-King.  It shows that the Words of Scripture are clear to use to rebuke Satan, sufficient to withstand attack, and ultimate in authority in matters of faith, life and morals. 

In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures (James 1:18 NASB).

Christ brought His apostles forthwith by the Word of truth.  Christ is the Living Incarnate Truth.  He is the Incarnate Word of Truth.  He speaks the truthful Words from God, and no one can compare with His matchless Words of truth.  The Spirit of God is the Author of Truth.  The Father is the Author of Truth.  Therefore the Trinity is the Author of Truth.  But God the Father did not become man, nor did the Holy Spirit.  God was manifested in human flesh as Jesus Christ.  Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Trinity.  He is the God-man who speaks absolute truth.  There was no man in history that spoke like Jesus spoke.  He spoke with divine authority, and purpose.  Christ worshipped God perfectly by His mind in exalting the truth of God by what He spoke, did and thought.  And the apostles were confirmed by the truth.  God the Father through His Beloved Son granted His people to be born from above by the Word of truth.  The Word of truth is what changes the heart of stone.  What other religious book could do this perfectly, and sufficiently?  God changes the heart by the Spirit of God and the Word of God, the Word of truth.  This is done under the control of the God-man.  No other book of man can change the heart of stone except that which is God-Breathed.  The Bible is the all-powerful Word of God because God inspired it.  God also superintended the Holy Bible.  Other religions have the appearance of divine Scripture but the Christian Bible has the actuality of divine Scripture.  What other does God call the Word of truth?  Tell me, what greater gift can God grant to a hopeless sinner then a changed heart?  Out of all the important things in life this is the most important.  But how it is done?  It is done by the Spirit of God and the Word of God.  The Word of God is nothing less then the Word of Truth.  The Word of Truth nourishes the soul.  Christians stood on the Word of Truth as their sure foundation and support.  The Christian whom God has bore does not turn to man’s ways of revelation but to the Scriptures because of the internal testimony of the Spirit of God as the Westminster Catechism states, and because Scripture is true.  Put your faith in the Word of Truth to experience the truth and rest in the truth.  Pilate asked “What is truth?”  We must turn to the Word incarnate and hear His Words of truth.  The Word of truth is the Christian Bible.

For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart (Hebrews 4:12 NASB).

The Word of God divinely penetrates the soul and heart of man.  It is the living and active Word of God.  The Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword.  It is the weapon of the Christian.  It is powerful, effective, supernatural.  What word of man can compare to this reality of truth?  What “Scripture of man’s religion” is sharper then any two-edged sword?  How is it that God speaks of His word as His own, and man uses other standards of revelation?  How man should revere the divine Scripture, and make it incomparable with other books and precious to their hearts!  The Word of God reveals sin, and judges the hearts and minds of the sons of men.  Be faithful to the Word of God, and God will be pleased with you.  But disobedience to the Word of God is disobedience to God Himself.  The Word of God penetrates the most deepest parts of the human soul.  The Word of truth judges the thoughts and intentions of the human heart.  No word can convict, radically change, provide spiritual life then the Living Word of God.

The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting (Ps. 119:160 NASB).

The sum and total of God’s Word is truth.  All of Scripture, from the period, to the comma, to the sentences and paragraphs are God-Breathed.  God superintended to preserve His Word.  If God’s Word is truth, it follows that God has a Word, and that it is eternal.  So, then, God’s Word is eternally preserved.  It will be studied in heaven.  The depths and riches of Scripture will never be exhausted.  It is man’s follies that he supposes his ways of revelation are true, but we must remember that God’s Word is sufficient, true and totally divine.  What “sacred” book of man’s religion is like this?

The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul; The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple (Ps. 19:7 NASB).

God’s law is everlasting because His Word is timeless.  God’s law shows the character of God.  It shows God’s whole revelation to human beings.  His law is perfect, without spot, blemish, without wrinkle. The law of God restores and revives the soul.  The Lord has made this an absolute surety.  The Word of God is the believer’s surety.  God makes the simple wise.  What book of man can be called perfect truth?  Turn to the perfect Word of Truth; how timeless, how precious; how eternal; how holy and pure!  Submit to the Word of Perfection and live spiritually.  Live by the Word of God alone, and please the Trinity of Truth and Perfection.  Be submissive to the Word of Perfection, and honor God’s Word today by living a life of obedience to Word and will.  What teachings from the book of man will avail before the Incarnate Judge on Judgment Day?  What supposed revelation will God call perfect and will avail before His holy throne? 

Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him (Proverbs 30:5 KJV).

How do we know that Scripture is pure?  God speaks in His Word and thusly declares His Word pure.  But what is the extent of this holy purity?  The purity of God’s word is every Word of God.  The divine Scriptures contain every Word of God.  And every Word of God is pure.  Based on the purity of God’s Word we see its unity and purpose.  We see that the belief in Scripture is the peace of God.  

The characteristic of the divine Word is purity.  The pure Word of God is tried and reliable.  It is reliable because it is infallible.  The Word of God is self-attesting and self-authenticating yet it is not left with internal and external evidence of it being true.

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken… (John 10:35 KJV).

The Christian Bible refers to God as the Author of divine Scripture.  The meaning of “the Scripture cannot be broken” means scripture is infallible.  What book of man’s religion is infallible, and to which book is He the Author?  This is the view of Jesus on divine Scripture.  If we turn to Jesus, we see the Sinless King using Scripture as the sole infallible authority.  He refers back to Scripture in a place of Scripture saying “Have you not read…?”  He rightly and divinely presumes the clarity and perpetuity of divine Writ.  Look to the Scripture and understand that Christ is saying that the Bible is matchless.  We must submit to Scripture because it can rightly correct us.  Human beings are always in need of correction.  The Word of God provides correction because it is God-Breathed.  It is trustworthy and inspired.  The Bible is true and authoritative that it commands our obedience.  It is not done in an arrogant way; for it is God speaking to man.  If it was man speaking to man, claiming divine authority, then it would be arrogant.  Isn’t this exactly what Freemasonry does?  When we turn to Scripture we see the Word of God as truth and wisdom because God speaks through His Word.  God exercises His rule over His beloved people.  His does this for His blessed glory and for the edification of His people.  Divine Scripture is the exercise of the Lordship of Jesus Christ over His beloved saints.  Turn to the God-Breathed Scriptures.  In it you will by God’s grace set it apart from the words of humanity.  For Holy Write is “…God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17 NIV).

                We have seen that man’s tradition should not be place above Scripture.  We have seen that Christ Himself used Scripture in the highest and purest way in rebuking Satan.  We have seen that Scripture is the Word of God, the Word of Truth, the perfect Word of God, the purest Word of God, only Word of God that it is infallible.  The error of man is the affirmation of honoring other books of men, elevating it as God’s Word and dishonoring the matchless Word of God.  It is in the Word of God that we find ourselves seeing God in redemptive history. 

God is at work in His creation.  He created by the power of His Word.  He spoke and it was.  This is the utter powerfulness of God’s Word.  No other word has the power of God’s Word.  We should turn to Scripture as the only true Word of God.  It is far from the teaching of Christianity that other books of religion should be revered.  We saw Pope John Paul II revere the Koran.  Such activity flies in the face of the divine Word of Good and what it teaches.  It teaches the ways of God.  The ways of God are not the ways of mankind.  His thoughts are not your thoughts.  His words are the farthest from your hearts.  This is because of the fallen nature of man. 

Sin will be punished in hell.  Hell is a real place.  If your revelation is theologically wrong, it is likely your system of theology will be in error.  Your soul is eternally at stake.  The divine remedy for sin is through the crucified God-man.  He commands people to repent for nullifying His divine, truthful and inerrant Word.  Scripture interprets itself, and this is the divine principle of the Reformation and from Scripture itself.  Turn, mediate and memorize the Word of God, and trust it as a gift from God so you may believe, and be forgiven.  Understand the sinner’s need for the unified, perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to them by faith alone.  We are sure of the promises of God in salvation because of His unchanging Word.  Will you submit, then, to His unchanging message of faith and repentance to the great Incarnate Light revealed exclusively in His preserved Word?

…the Bible, so rich in symbolism, is itself a symbol…It is a sovereign symbol of the Book of Faith, the Will of God as man has learned it in the midst of the years…Thus, by the very honor which Masonry pays to the Bible, it teaches us to revere every book of faith…joining hands with the man of Islam as he takes oath on the Koran, and with the Hindu as he makes covenant with God upon the book that he loves best.[7]

This dark world in and of itself offers no certainty of divine truth but muddled thinking, worldly philosophies, religious absurdness and superstitious thinking.  It is a world that comprises of various understandings that do not avail before God as being divinely true, authentic, biblical and compatible with revealed revelation in Christianity found solely in the divine Word (both Old and New Testaments).  Turning to other “revelations” of this spiritually perverse world fails to submit to true revelation.  But this true revelation did not emerge from this world nor did it come from the prince of the power of the air.  Rather true revelation came from the God of all truth and grace.  Think of the revelation of the enemies of ancient Israel.  Do you think the Hebrews led by Moses accepted the revelation of their opposing enemies?  Would Moses accept the revelation of Balaam?  Would David accept the revelation of the Philistines?  Would Jesus Christ accept the revelation of the scribes and Pharisees in their traditions of men?

This God of truth and grace in divine Scripture is not the God of Freemasonry but it is the God of the Reformed faith.  He is found in the sacred pages of divine Scripture; He is the Truth itself.  He is not a God Who is of Masonry but He is the God who is divinely triune.  The God of Masonry is not the God who breathed out the Word.  The different God of Masonry brings different revelation, and a vastly different understanding of the sacred Scriptures.  Does God reveal Himself as the Lord in other sources of knowledge in Kabalistic doctrines?  Is the God who inspired falsehood worthy of trust?  Christians know God-breathed out the Word of God. The Word of God is not found in the Quran, but in the holy pages of the Christian Bible alone (the Protestant canon), nor is it found in the books of Jezirah, in Sohar nor in the teachings of Zoroaster.  Submit to true divine revelation, walk with God and live in peace with Him.  But those who submit to Masonry revelation in a life-long matter will lend themselves to the second death: eternal hell. 

                If the Bible is treated as any other religious book, it degrades the Bible, because the Bible is divine rather then human in origin.  It is the very Word of God and Voice of God.  It is ultimately God speaking to man.  No other book is like the Bible in terms of being a holy book from God.  There are other books that claim to be a holy book from God but in reality the Bible is solely the authentic Word of God.  Turn to the Christian Bible and submit to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.  Other alleged genuine revelations do not provide a harmonious presentation of divine truth taken as a whole, but it lends to confusion, false theologies of God, His nature, the impeccable nature of His Word and the nature of soteriology.  These matters of faith and life are hardly trifling but the very eternal destiny of the soul is at stake.  If you wish to be zealous; be zealous in repenting and turning from the sin of Masonry revelation, surrender to the supremacy of the divine Word of God.  Lingering in sin is no small matter, and repentance toward the Trinity is well-pleasing to God, and He gets great glory from it, because it is from His Spirit and His Word who gives His people grace. 

                No Christian can submit to an organization that uses the Quran as a holy book from God.  The Christian has his heart hanging on the Words of His Lord and Savior.  The written Word of God is not simply Words from men but it is the living and active Word.  It is the Word of grace that changes the heart; it is the Word of patience and comfort; it is the Word of power by the Holy Spirit; it is the Word of conviction of sin.  Therefore it is nothing less then the all-encompassing Word of God, wholly sufficient in all respects.  The Christian does not hang on the Word of another that is foreign to the sacred text of Scripture.  No Christian can submit to the ways of Freemasonry who embrace the ways of a Hindu. It is impossible for the Christian to submit to these ways; and at the same time serve His God in good conscience.  Do you not want to live in good conscience before men and God?  If you claim to be a Christian, and you are a Mason, consider the Words of the Incarnate Savior.  He is the Truth Itself, and He speaks the truth: submit, then, to Him and heed what He says.  Turn away from your traditions, and embrace the truth of God’s Word.  Masons who submit to other “revelations” is sin; it bears the bad fruit of adhering to spiritual irrationality.  The Christian Bible does not teach that we are to revere other holy books.  Suppose as a Christian you claim to adhere to the Bible, and you participate in a religious group that has people of different faiths adhering to their sacred book.  You have compromised the faith of Christianity because you are saying that the Bible is not matchless.  You are saying by being a Freemason, “Your book is as good as mine.”  Understand that the Bible is matchless, true, and divinely unique.  As the birth of Christ is matchless and no other birth can compare, so too, is the Book of the true Christian people.  God-breathed out His Word as is seen in the Old and New Testament.  Let’s turn to what Jesus did when tradition interfered with God’s divine Word.

                 

The Prevailing Masonic opinion is that the Bible is the only symbol of Divine Will, Law or Revelation, and not that it contents are Divine Law, inspired, or revealed. So far, no responsible authority has held that a Freemason must believe the Bible or any part of it.[8]

Is the Bible believable and true?  Does the Bible alone contain God’s divine and authentic law?  Is it inspired and did God produce an authentic revelation?  This author submits to you that special revelation is contained in the Christian Bible alone.  It is true.  It is inspired.  It is the very Word of Christ Jesus the Incarnate King!  The holy Scripture of the Christian Bible is known to be vox Dei (the “voice of God”) or verbum Dei (the “Word of God”).  When theologians call the Christian Bible the “Word of God” we do not mean that it was God’s own literal hand that wrote it or that it came from the presence of heaven.  The holy Scriptures communicates to us many authors.  In a cautious hermeneutical study theologians notice that each human author has his own style, usage of words, unique emphasis and standpoint.  Scripture never contradicts Scripture but it is on harmonious and unanimous content of truth.

Let Masonry understand:  other “holy” books of revelation are not like the Bible in that the Bible is set apart; it is holy and it is sacred.  Believe, then, that the books of the Bible alone are true, and they are reliable.  What, oh man, will you say to the Incarnate Judge on that dreadful day?  Your words will not be voiced but dread and terror will be what you experience.  As Christ said, “have you not read...?”  You are responsible to heed what Scripture says.  Is it not true that you do not know the power of God and the sacred Scriptures?  Escape judgment, and heed the Words of the Savior.  Believe in the matchless Savior from His matchless Word. 

Why do theologians call the Bible the “Word of God”?  This is vitally important because if Masonry would understand true revelation it would be a drastic step in arriving at divine truth.  Having the Scriptures does not mean necessarily that interpreters will arrive at the author’s intended meaning unless a true and thorough interpretation is achieved.  But if people would only realize the divine treasure of truth that the Scriptures are, and how they should not reject the truth already revealed in the Holy Book of Christ.  Why is it necessary to have other books of revelation?  Isn’t the Scripture the prize of Christ, and didn’t Christ have the ultimate and true view of Scripture?  Shouldn’t that move our hearts to accept it alone as true special revelation from God?  And if it doesn’t, what does that say about our hearts?  The holy Scripture is called the Word of God because of its proclamation about itself, and that it is shown to be divine rather then human in origin because there is divine evidence to support it as such.

Let Masonry understand: the words of the human authors from Scripture were alone inspired by God.  The other books of religions show themselves to be historically novel or inaccurate, a loss of “Thus says the Lord,” and contradictory understandings of divine truth; to name a few.  The human authors of the Bible did not simply state their own views independent from God the Holy Spirit’s inspiration.  Nor did the authors write in conformity with other religions of the world (e.g., Christ is the Only Son of the Father).  A surface level examination of religions of the world, reveal that they are not harmonious but vastly different and contradictory.  Paul, the apostle, wrote in 2 Timothy 3:16: “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God…”  The term inspiration refers to that which is “God-Breathed.”  God-Breathed out the holy Scriptures known as the Christian Bible.  Divine Writ is God communicating to us through the inspiration of the human authors by the Holy Spirit of God.  Scripture came to us through human authors.  Ultimately it is God speaking to man.  The Scripture show themselves to be God’s Word because the ancient, holy authors of holy Scripture rightly professed, “Thus says the Lord.”  Jesus, the divine Word of Life, proclaims and declared, “Scripture cannot be broken…”  (John 10:35).  It refers to the infallibility of Scripture.  He speaks of the complete truthfulness of God’s Word, “Your word is truth…”  (John 17:17).  If God’s Word is truth, it contains truthful statements from God through the pen of guided human authors by God Himself.  What divine evidence are there that other “holy” books were divinely inspired?  Do they offer truthful statements regarding divine truth?  Submit to the God-Breathed Word and learn real divine truth!  Under the question “Are the V.S.L. (Volume of Sacred Law) and the Book of the Law the same as the Bible?” it says,

In the Christian lands the holy book of the prevailing faith is the Great Light.  In American and English lodges that book is the Holy Bible.  A Masonic lodge cannot exist without the V.S.L., the Book of the Law.  But in the lands where there are other religions, the sacred book of those religions becomes their Great Light.  What is important is that some volume containing divine revelation be part of the furniture of the lodge.  Inasmuch as Freemasonry is not concerned with doctrine or dogma or sect or denomination, but only with “that natural religion in which all men agree” (Old Charges), it is only necessary that the V.S.L. be sacred to the members of the lodge.  The on American Altars is not to be considered only as a Christian or a Jewish sacred book; it is a symbol of the revealed will and teachings of the Great Architect of the Universe—a name under which any Freemason can worship that Deity in Whom he puts his faith and trust.[9]

How is it that “in Christian lands the holy book of the prevailing faith is the Great Light”?  Is it possible to be a Freemason and a Christian at the same time?  Is it consistent to hold to the tenets of Freemasonry and Christianity?  If someone is a Freemason my questions to him would be: are you ignorant of what Freemasonry teaches concerning matters of faith?  Or do you know what Freemasonry teaches about matters of faith?  If you are ignorant of what Freemasonry teaches, this author exhorts you to consider the truth of the matter.  If you claim you are a Christian, do you believe in the Triune God?  Freemasonry holds that their God is not necessarily a Trinity.  What makes Christianity what it is, is the Trinitarian nature of God.  Christianity is Trinitarianism.  To reject the Blessed and Holy Trinity is to reject divine and true revelation, and to forfeit your soul.  Do you consider the God of Christianity Baalim?  Freemasonry does!  We shall see what they teach on this in the next chapter.

                Who or what is the Great Light?  Is the Great Light really each person’s own religious text?  Is it divinely preserved?  But, again, who is the Great Light?  This author submits that the Great Light is not a person’s own, man-made religious text.  Rather the Great Light is the Lord Jesus Christ, and surely, only true revelation.  Christ is the Light of the World.  There is no Light that is the Supreme Light other then Jesus Christ.  He is the true Light of the World.  Satan masquerades himself as an angel of light.  His messengers of sin imitate Satan as angels of light.  Reprobate human beings masquerades themselves as persons of true light.  But in reality the messengers of true light are holy angels, and true saints.  Submit to the divine Scriptures because the Incarnate true Light bears witness that it alone is the true final authority.  Honor the divine Word as the Incarnate Word did.  Doesn’t Scripture tell us that Satan is mankind’s ultimate enemy?  Why entertain beliefs that he has endorsed?  Later we shall see who Freemasons worship: are you prepared to embrace the truth of Scripture about what Freemasons actually teach?  May God open your mind to understand His blessed truth!  Let’s continue to expound this vital issue. 

The God of Christianity is directly inferior to the God of Freemasonry.  The Great Architect of the Universe is alleged to be in all religions, but this God is clouded by personal beliefs in different religions.  The God of Christianity is approachable and knowable, but the God of the Craft is unknowable and unapproachable.  To serve a God who is unknowable and unapproachable is to serve a God who does not exist.  The God of Christianity is real and true, and we must serve Him because He is the God who is true and real.  This author understands that Masonry does not reject or embrace the Trinity, but Masonry places it in a class of small significance.  Yet the Craft teaches that the Trinity must be avoided, and Christian monotheism is incompatible with historic Christianity.  How is it if Christians can be Freemasons, that the Craft denies a fundamental doctrine of the Christian faith?  You see, if one does not regard the Christian Bible as infallible and inerrant, it is likely that the doctrines in Scripture (provided by theologians in a systematic fashion) will be of small importance, and avoided.  How is this compatible with authentic Christianity?  To believe that the Trinity is of small importance is almost as bad as rejecting it, and avoiding the doctrine of the Trinity is almost as bad denying it.  But, again, respectfully this author maintains that Masonry denies it in practice. 

If the Christian Bible is placed with other books of religion it is showing dishonor to Scripture, and ultimately to God Himself.  Freemasonry is saying that other books of religion are just as important as the Bible is, and just as true.  If other books of religion show themselves to be inauthentic in terms history and matters of faith, and spiritually devoid of the Spirit of God, how, then, is it acceptable as the Christian Bible?  The God of Masonry does not provide a reliable understanding of divine truth.  That is, what it teaches is contrary to Scripture, and the historic Christian faith.  What of the acceptance of the possibility of attributing divinity to other figures of other religions?  Isn’t the divinity of Christ a unique and special doctrine that shows that only Jesus was the God-man?  How do you suppose you show honor to Christ by saying someone else could have been like Him?  Doesn’t the Father have an only Son?  Is not Jesus Christ the only Beloved Son of the Father? Was God the Father pleased in another?  How is it that the Scripture supports Jesus as the only Son of the Father; being well-pleased, and He always did what was pleasing to the Father, yet you say He was merely a great moral teacher, and leave the possibility open to apply divinity to Him, and equate Him with other figures of religion?  The divinity of Jesus is not a minor issue.  In fact, it is vitally essential to have eternal life.  No human being has eternal life if they say Jesus was merely a great moral teacher.  But Freemasonry goes further then that.  It is a matter of Freemason doctrine that Jesus was not God, and to believe, embrace or trust in Jesus as God, is a human invention.  If it is not Freemason doctrine what is it?  If the divinity of Jesus is a matter of eternal importance, and the soul is lost without it, how shall we understand how a Christian can be a Freemason?  Freemasonry teaches the universality of believing in the God of the worshipper.  It does not matter which God it is.  On the contrary, according to truth, Jesus Christ is Incarnate Deity, and there is salvation in no one else.  The Christian Bible teaches the exclusivity of Jesus Christ.  That is, one must put personal faith in Him alone (Acts 4:12).  Do you suppose it is a novel doctrine from the sacred pages of Holy Writ that Christ is Divine?  No, in fact, this doctrine of Christianity was taught from the very beginning.  It was taught by the Old Testament saints (Isaiah 9:6), God the Father (Hebrews 1), Christ Himself (John 20:28-29) and His apostles (Hebrews 1:8).  What a daring religion to suppose the opposite of what God has revealed in His Word!  How is it that it is not a religion when it has denials Christian beliefs, and has affirmations on matters of religion?  If one turns to the Christian Bible, and correctly understands it by the Spirit of Truth, there will be no need for Freemasonry, but it rejects the Bible as the sole infallible source even though it is strangely and allegedly revered. 

Chapter 2:

Is the God of Freemasonry Biblical?

                We have seen the doctrine of the Craft about the sources of revelation.  This author has tried to appeal to Christians with different versions in the last chapter.  But by doing this, this author is not saying that God’s Word is not preserved.  The versions of the Bible used are reliable copies of God’s divine Word. 

The Masonic Edition of the Grand Council of Virginia Anointed High Priests, 1957, version of the Bible is the King James Version (KJV), the Masonic Edition of the Heirloom Family Bible, 1982, is the King James Version (KJV) and the Eastern Star Edition of Scripture is the King James Version (KJV).  However, in passing, as odd as it may seem, Catholics who are Masons should favor the New American Standard Bible (NASB) since their church does, and many Evangelicals prefer the (NASB).  It is odd because Catholics are not supposed to be Masons.  Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical Letter on Freemasonry wrote, “As Our predecessors have many times repeated, let no man think that he may for any reason whatsoever join the Masonic sect, if he values his Catholic name and his eternal salvation as he ought to value them.”[10] 

Now let us turn our attention to the subject at hand, the nature of God.  Keep in mind as we have seen: the Bible should be the exclusive source of revelation (that is Scripture alone), and so, too, we shall see that the God of Christianity must be the exclusive God people serve and worship (that is the Trinity alone).

The matter of the nature of God is of no small importance; for when we ponder and consider it, it is truly an essential doctrine of the faith of Christianity.  When we ponder it, we discover who God is, and what divine revelation says about God.  His nature, character, attributes, and actions show that the God of the Bible is altogether good, holy, just, righteous.  He is set apart from other gods of world religions.  There is no god like the God of the Bible.  He is the God who does not know how to do evil, unrighteousness, or injustice.  He is the God who punishes the wicked, subdues His enemies and brings good to those that are His own.  His ways are according to goodness and mercy.  This is what the Christian Bible reveals about God.  These things are similar to other religions but in reality there is but one God, and He has one source of divine revelation.  People may say that “this God” or “that God” is like the God of the Bible.  But in reality the Bible asks a rhetorical question, who is like the Lord God?  Is there any god besides Him?  But is this the God that is in all word religions?  Or is there a universal God in all religions? 

Let’s understand the biblical conception of God in the Christian Bible.  Here are verses that speak about the uniqueness of the God of the Christian.

“And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God” (Exodus 8:10 KJV).

“There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky” (Deuteronomy 33:26 KJV).

“There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God” (1 Samuel 2:2 KJV).

“Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears” (2 Samuel 7:22 KJV).

“And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart…” (1 Kings 8:23 KJV).

“O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears” (1 Chronicles 17:20 KJV).

“And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts…” (2 Chronicles 6:14 KJV).

“Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works” (Psalm 86:8 KJV).

“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me…” (Isaiah 46:9 KJV).

“Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.” (Daniel 3:29 KJV).

 “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device” (Acts 17:29 KJV).

Now the God of Freemasonry is known as the Great Architect of the Universe (G.A.O.T.U).[11]  According to the Craft, the God of Freemasonry is in every religion but it’s clouded by specifics of their religion.  The Great Architect is present in all religions.  The universality of the God of Freemasonry is, somehow, in religions of men.[12]  People who are not Freemasons may not know that they worship the God of the Jew or Hindu.  How is it that the religion of Hinduism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity worship the God of the Craft if they believe vastly different and even contradictory beliefs about God Himself?  Do you suppose that the nature of God in Christianity is the same in Islam?  How is it that all of biblical Christianity is ignorant of the alleged reality of the Great Architect of the Universe in all religions?  Have you not read of the exclusivity of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12)?  Do you suppose Jesus who claimed to be, and demonstrated to be, the only Son of God, and the only way to the Father, was the Man who believed that the God He worshipped is present in some way in Hinduism, or even the enemies of the Jews?  Was the God Jesus worshiped as the sinless God-man the same God in same way with the enemies of Moses, Abraham and Noah?  Doesn’t God say He will make a difference between the Egyptians and the Jews (Exodus 8:23)?  It is impossible to arrive at the conclusion that the Egyptians and the Jews worshiped the same God.  In the same way, as the enemies of Moses, Abraham and Noah did not worship the same God; the Craft supposes that Hinduism and Judaism and Christianity worship the same God.  Yet these conceptions of God are diametrically opposed to each other.  Just a surface level understanding of the major word religions about the nature of God reveal the religious and spiritual absurdity of the claim of Freemasonry.  Tell me, do you suppose if the Craft existed in the time of Moses that both the Egyptians and Jews would have participated in a religious organization as Freemasonry?  Is it not so that both the Egyptians and Jews of the Old Testament were completely opposed to each other?  The nature of God is essential to salvation but do you suppose you would dare to think that it doesn’t matter about the nature of God?  Or it doesn’t matter that the very destiny of man is at stake?  Or it doesn’t matter that the nature of God is of eternal importance?  In a sarcastic sense, what matters is to have social organization without spiritual rationality found in Scripture! Indeed, the God of Freemasonry is foreign to everything that is right about the nature of the God of the Bible.

The Christian Bible says there is but one true and living God.

“Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God” (Isaiah 44:6 KJV).

                The testimony of Jesus is about the only true God, and Christ Whom He sent:

“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3 KJV).

God the Father has revealed Himself in and through His Only Beloved Son, Jesus Christ the Righteous One:

“No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him” (John 1:18 KJV).

“Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature…”  (Colossians 1:15 KJV).

God can be approached, and if He can be truly approached, is must be the only true way:

 “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16 KJV).

His people can draw near unto Him not because He is idolatrous but because He condescended His message in His Word to be known because He is the only true God:

“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water” (Hebrews 10:22 KJV).

The Christian Bible is plainly clear that the God of divine Scripture is wholly unique and eternally set apart.  He is not the God who is made with human hands.  He is not the God who was shaped by the devises of men.  Only religions of men are made with hands of men.  Rather the God of divine Scripture speaks to the truth of the nature of God; how there is none like Him; how He is the only true God; how He is exclusively divine; how He is true and real.  This God is not the God of Freemasonry.  He is not found in the craftiness of men or the folly of man’s alleged truth about the nature of God.  The ways of men about the nature of God are insufficient to save, spiritually deceptive, eternally destructive. Rather then reveal the great doctrine of truth about the nature of God in divine Writ, we see the Craft muddling the matter of the nature of God, and providing spiritually irrational religious understandings that fly in the face of the God of holy Scripture.  The God of holy Scripture is described by various names.  These beloved names reveal divine things about His divine nature.  Other religions claim things about the nature of God but they are only in appearance but not in actuality. 

Let’s turn to divine Scripture and see who the Psalmist prays to, and who he exclusively prayers to as the only true God:

“So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him” (Deuteronomy 32:12 KJV).

“And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth” (2 Kings 19:15 KJV).

“Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only” (2 Kings 19:19 KJV).

“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him” (Psalm 62:5 KJV).

“For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone” (Psalm 86:10 KJV).

“O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth” (Isaiah 37:16 KJV).

Who can now say that the God of Christianity is not the only God?  Hasn’t true divine revelation revealed that He alone is truly God, the very Self-Existent Creator?  The God of the Bible alone is Who the Psalmist waits upon.  He is the One; not the God of the Craft that the Psalmist has His expectations set upon.  The God he serves is a great and wondrous God.  The God of the Bible alone made the heavens and the earth.  Who is like the God of the Bible?  There is no God so awesome; so great; so marvelous; so magnificent; so unlike the world then the God of Christianity alone! 

Masonry,…around whose altars the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahman, the followers of Confucius and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim.[13]

…every religion and every conclusion of God is idolatrous, in so far as it is imperfect, and as it substitutes a feeble and temporary idea in the shrine of that Undiscoverable Being [of Masonry].[14]

Freemasonry calls the gods of other religions Baalims.  Baalims refer to false gods.  This is how Freemasonry views the gods of world religions.  Followers of other world religions ought to abandon their specific beliefs, and follow the God of Freemasonry.

Let us turn to what the Bible teaches about the prayers of Jesus, for it reveals who He worshiped (e.g., He did not worship other gods).  Here Jesus refers to the Father as Lord of heaven and earth.  It is consistent with the Old Testament description of who God is from the Old Testament:

“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes” (Matthew 11:25 KJV).

Here Jesus refers to His Father who revealed what Peter confessed:

“And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 16:17 KJV).

Jesus refers to the worship of the Father everywhere:

“Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father” (John 4:21 KJV).

The Father and the Son work together as equally divine.  The Son perfectly fulfills what the Father commands, and the Father is well-pleased in His Beloved Son.  The Father and the Son work the work of God for they are both equally divine:

“But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work…Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise” (John 5:17, 19 KJV).

The Father sent the Son, and the Son serves the Father as the true Bread from Heaven:

“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven” (John 6:32 KJV).

If people know the Son, they know His Father.  Here Jesus says you do not know the Son nor the Father.  Tell me, if you know a different Jesus then the Jesus of the New Testament are you truly serving Christ?  We shall see the fallaciousness of the Freemason doctrine about Christ.  But remember the words of Christ:

“Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also” (John 8:19 KJV).

“Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me” (John 8:42 KJV).

Now we shall see who Jesus worshipped.  If Jesus worshipped the Father, it is conclusive evidence that we should exclusively worship the Father of divine Scripture not the God of Freemasonry.  What greater example could a person ask for?

“And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt… He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done… And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.” (Matthew 26:39, 42, 44 KJV).

“And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed” (Mark 1:35 KJV).

“And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him… And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.” (Mark 14:35, 39 KJV).

“And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed” (Luke 5:16 KJV).

“And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering” (Luke 9:29 KJV).

“But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren” (Luke 22:32 KJV).

“And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed…And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:41, 44 KJV).

It is biblically consistent to say that Christians worship Jesus.  But if Jesus is not divine it would be idolatry.  We turn now to an example in Holy Scripture of Jesus being worshiped by Saint Stephen in Acts 7:59-60:

59And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

60And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. (KJV).

Divine Scripture unanimously speaks to the truthful reality of Jesus worshipping the Father alone (apart from other Gods), and Christians worshipping the Son.  Look and see how Stephen the Martyr worshipped Jesus Christ.  He worshipped Jesus because He was God incarnate.  Stephen knew Christ was wholly divine.  It is biblically acceptable to worship the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).  We must remember the truth of the matter: God is one in essence, and three in person (Deuteronomy 6:4 cf. Matthew 28:19).  Only the God of Christianity is worthy of service and worship.  We see in Romanism that the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 841) claims to worship the same God as Muslims.  This is also the error not only of Rome but of Freemasonry.  Although Rome strongly disagrees with the Craft, it shares this similarity of muddling the gospel.  The Muslim understanding of God is vastly different, and diametrically opposed to the nature of God in divine Scripture.  To say that we worship the same God is a spiritually suicidal. 

If the God of Freemasonry is the one true God who people of the Craft offer their prayers to, how it is that God’s divine Word says that the God of the Bible is the God alone who people must offer their prayers to, if they wish to honor and adore Him?  How is the Christian God honored by identifying Him as Baalim (a false god)?  If every religion and every conception of God is idolatrous, doesn’t that include Christianity?  Where has God spoken in support and defense of Freemasonry?  Where is the true divine revelation of Freemasonry?  If every religion and conception is idolatrous, why is Freemasonry excluded from this?  God has not spoken as to say that Freemasonry revelation is authentic about the nature of God.  Rather it is men of Freemasonry that claim errant presumptions that manifest their claims.  Why is it that Masons only have the ability to accurately understand Scripture?[15]  It is almost like Rome who interprets Scripture for their people.  If Christianity is a feeble and temporary idea of the nature of God, how is it honored by what Christians who believe what is true about the Trinity?  How is the God of Freemasonry true, when He is not mentioned in divine Scripture; God’s exclusive revelation?

                The Craft holds that Christian monotheism is incompatible with the teachings of Freemasonry:

Monotheism…violates Masonic principles, for it requires belief in a specific kind of Supreme Deity.[16]

The ultimate question is would the Lord Jesus Christ worship the God of Freemasonry?  Would He submit to their doctrine of revelation?  Let us turn our attention to the God Jesus worshipped.  But Who did Jesus worshipped?  He worshiped the one true God alone: God the Father.  It is proper to call the Father the one true God; the Son the one true God and the Holy Spirit the one true God.  There are three distinct persons in One true being.  That is the teaching of Trinitarianism.  It does not deny that there is but one God (holy and true).  People should submit to Christian monotheism as the foundation of actual understandings of God.  He served and worshipped God the Father of the Old Testament alone.  As Jesus turned to no other revelation then the Old Testament, so, too, we will see Jesus serving and worshipping God the Father alone (not foreign deities).  We now turn to instances of Jesus serving His Heavenly Father, and worshipping Him.  Consider this question: who is the ultimate example that we should turn to in serving and worshipping God?  Is it not the only sinless God-man, Christ Jesus the Lord?  Have you not read…?

The God of the Craft is chosen over against the God of Christianity.  Masons unite in worship of the God of the Craft.  The God of Freemasonry is unknowable, unnamed and unapproachable.  If this is true, why would man even try to serve such a Being?  We must understand that the God of divine Scripture is not isolated to a tribal deity.  He is described by the God who is in heaven and the earth (Joshua 2:11).  This statement speaks of the universality of God.  It came from the mouth of a Gentile, not one of Israel’s tribes.[17]  Therefore God can be known, named and approached.  It is impossible for an actual Christian to choose the God of the Craft over the God of Christianity.  It is impossible for a true Christian to maintain the integrity of true belief and be a Mason.

The Bible shows us that Christ and His people know, name and approach the God of Scripture.  But here Freemasonry says that their God cannot be known, named or approached:

Men have to decide whether they want a God like the ancient Hebrew Jahweh, a partisan, tribal God, with whom they can talk and argue and from whom they can hide if necessary, or a boundless, eternal universal, undenominational, and international, Divine Spirit, so vastly removed from the speck called man, that He cannot be known, named or approached.[18]

The God of Scripture is superlatively holy, and there is no “god” like Him.  Divine Scripture calls us to invoke the name of the true God alone.  Here are verses that speak to that affect.  We see in divine Scripture that Trinity is seen in the baptism of Christ:

16And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

17And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew 3:16-17 KJV).

Notice well he refers to the three distinct persons because it is a true reality.  Here is a Trinitarian benediction from the apostle Paul:

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen” (2 Corinthians 13:14 KJV).

God sent His Only Beloved Son, and the Spirit enables His people to cry unto God the Father:

4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,  

5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

6And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father (Galatians 4:4-6 KJV).

Here is a portion of the Athanasian Creed that properly portrays the blessed doctrine of the Trinity:

Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith; Which faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.  And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.  Neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance.  For there is one Person of the Father, another of the Son and another of the Holy Spirit.  But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.  Such as the Father is, such is the Son and such is the Holy Spirit.  The Father uncreate, the Son uncreate, and the Holy Spirit uncreate.  The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible.  The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal.  And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal.  As also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensibles, but one uncreated and one incomprehensible.  So likewise the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty;  And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty.  So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God;  And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.  So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, and the Holy Spirit Lord;  And yet they are not three Lords, but one Lord.  For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every person by himself to be God and Lord; so are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say: There are three Gods or three Lords. The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten.  The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten.  The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.  So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits.  And in this Trinity none is afore, nor after another; none is greater, or less than another.  But the whole three persons are co-eternal, and co-equal.  So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.  He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.

The Blessed Trinity is a sacred doctrine of truth.  When we think of the Holy Trinity we see that God reveals Himself in a divine and special way.  He is the God of all truth.  To avoid the doctrine of the Trinity is an eternal offense against the God of divine Scripture.  The doctrine of the Trinity is not a mere novel doctrine of the church.  Rather it is a sacred truth that is taught in the sacred pages of divine Writ.  To neither confirm nor deny the Trinity is also an offense against Him Who lives forevermore.  The Trinity was taught in the Old Testament, and it is clearly seen in the New Testament.  Let us turn to the Trinity for salvation and truth.  When Masons dishonor the Trinity, it is a plain sin against the Divine Godhead.  It is an eternal offense against the truth of the nature of God.  Who will you serve; who will have your allegiance; and who will be your refuge?  Joshua 24:15 says, “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” (KJV).  Choose this day: whether you will serve the God of the Craft, or the God of the Christian faith.  St. Athanasius wrote On The Incarnation, and at the end he refers to the Blessed Trinity, “…through Whom and with Whom be to the Father Himself, with the Son Himself, in the Holy Spirit, honor and might and glory to ages of ages. Amen.”

Masonry holds and teaches that with all and above all there ius God, not essentially a Christian triune God.[19]

The Trinity is an explicit concept found in almost every page of the Christian Bible.  People who reject the Trinity because it is not found in divine Scripture are engaging in a spiritually absurdity.  There are many words in theology that are not found in the Bible, but this does not invalidate the usage of these sacred words.  The question is, are the concept of these words found in the sacred pages of divine Scripture?  In sound theology the answer is, yes, the concepts of the words are found in the divine Word of God.   The conclusion from the Freemasonry sources is, God is not necessarily triune.  What a vastly different understanding of the nature of God!  Christians hold the doctrine of the Trinity as wholly sacred and a divine truth found in the sacred pages of the divine Word.  In the movement of Oneness Pentecostalism, some assert that it doesn’t really matter how we view the nature of God.  What is meant is this: If you believe in Modalism (denying the distinctions of the Godhead), or if you believe in Trinitarianism (God is one in essence, and three in person), it really has no bearing on the eternal destiny of the soul, but such is far from the sacred truth of holy Writ.  Any honest reading of divine Scripture demonstrates that it is eternally important to believe what Scripture rightly teaches for the eternal home of the sinner is at stake.  It is not simply a truth you can brash off.  If someone does not hold to the doctrine of the Trinity, this author believes it is correct to say that it is denied in practice.  If it is denied in practice, it is just as bad as rejecting it.  Let’s turn to Freemason documentation that supports neither confirming nor denying it.[20]

To every Mason, WISDOM or INTELLIGENCE, FORCE or STRENGTH, and HARMONY, or FITNESS and BEAUTY, are the Trinity or the attributes of God.  With the subtleties of Philosophy concerning them Masonry does not meddle, nor decide as to the reality of the supposed Existences which are their Personifications: nor whether the Christian Trinity be such a personification, or a Reality of the gravest import and significance.[21]

Understanding God as Triune must be avoided:[22]

No phrase or terms should be used in a Masonic service that would arouse sectarian feelings or wound the religious sensibilities of any Freemason.[23]

Christians must devote themselves to the Blessed Trinity.  We ought to stand firm on the Bible.  It teaches the blessed doctrine of the Trinity.  We ought not to avoid the Trinity but be submissive to divine Scripture.  What other God does the Christian have but the Blessed and Holy Trinity?  Let us exalt His name, and praise for Who He is.  Amen. 

Chapter 3:

Is The Jesus of the Craft Biblical?

                The world offers a different Jesus.  He is altogether different then the Jesus of the New Testament.  In passing, Rome offers a divine Jesus who does not save perfectly; Mormonism offers a Jesus who is a God among many.  But the common denial of truth among the cults of this dark world is the rejection of the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example, deny the deity of Jesus Christ.  The deity of Jesus Christ is essential to the glorious gospel of grace and peace.  Without the deity of Christ the gospel is another gospel, foreign to what Christ Himself taught about Himself, and what His loyal followers taught of Him.  Nothing less then the soul of a human being is at stake.  To deny the deity of Christ is blasphemy, and an eternal offense against the Blessed Trinity.  We must be faithful to the sacred text of Holy Scripture, and submit joyfully to this blessed doctrine of truth.  Christ exercises Lordship over His beloved church, and His is the Sovereign King of the universe. The truth of the deity of Christ is seen throughout Scripture, and it is a joy to the Christian to believe it; for we cherish such doctrines of eternal importance.  We cherish this doctrine of truth because it is divine rather then human in origin.  It is a high doctrine of the reality that the sacred pages set forth.  It is spiritual suicide to reject the Scriptural doctrine of the deity of Christ.

How is it that you honor Christ when you reject the sacred truth of His deity?  Which Christ, then, are you serving?  It is certainly not the Christ of the totality of divine Scripture.  Service to another Christ is service really to a Christ that is impotent to save, and without divine power to forgive and pardon sins.  Man’s hands make idols, and these idols are not authentic and true power from heaven, but demons in disguise.  It is time to reject the idols of men, and submit to the divine Word of God.  It is time to renounce the doctrines of demons, and surrender to the glorious Christ of divine Scripture.  There is a time approaching that is a time of dread and judgment.  None other then Incarnate Deity will judge the world in righteousness and truth.  Will you be ready?  Why do you suppose that the works of men in any way satisfy God’s demand for perfect righteousness?  The works of men are as filthy rages, and they will never avail before a holy God who demands the righteousness of His Beloved Son for helpless sinners. 

Christ is the Good Shepherd who lies down His precious life for His flock.  But it was not the Christ of the Craft that did this, because such a person would have been insufficient to meet what the law required.  The Perfect Mediator had to be both God and man, so, this means, Christ has two natures: human and divine.  His natures are distinct but not separate.  The Jesus of the New Testament was the Incarnate Lord who is the spotless Lamb of God.  Jesus was not simply a great moral teacher, nor was He a mere man.  Christ is the Divine Teacher who taught about the divine and true things of God.  To ignore or put aside what Jesus taught about His divine identity is to reject what Jesus said as being divinely true (John 8:58).  Why do you pick and choose what you will believe from the New Testament?  Isn’t it consistent to take God’s revelation as a whole instead of part of it?  And how are you a Christian if you deny an eternal truth?  We shall see that the Craft teaches Jesus was a great moral teacher, that He was not divine, that He was merely a man; God the Son did not manifest Himself in the flesh.  Moreover, the resurrection is ignored by Freemasons and the Craft leaves open for people to decide if they wish to say ‘He is divine’ or if they wish to say ‘This other religious figure was or is divine.’

The Lord Jesus Christ is described as the only Son of the Father in Holy Scripture.  This means that He alone is the one and only Son of God.  There is no other Son the Father has save the eternal Son of God, Jesus Christ.  We must submit to the teaching of divine Scripture about the truth of Jesus Christ.  Scripture describes Christ as “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14 NKJV); “The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (John 1:18 NKJV); “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 NKJV); “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18 NKJV); and “In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:9 NKJV).  Thus the Nicene Creed proclaims, “And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God.”  The Apostles Creed declares, “…and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord.”  The Definition of Chalcedon says, “…one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-Begotten…”  The Athanasian Creed declares, “…and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and man.”  These divine formulas support the Scriptural reality of Jesus as being the only Son of the Father.  When Scripture refers to Jesus as begotten, it does not refer to Him as being created.  Once again the Nicene Creed says, “begotten, not made.”  The Lord Jesus was not created but rather He is the Creator.  The point of these quotations is to show that Jesus is the unique Son of God.  That is, there is none that can compare to Him, or that can be named in the same breath as Him. The Father does not have another Son.  The Father has one and only Son: the Lord Jesus Christ.  To say that Jesus is great is an under testament of sorts; for Jesus is eternally great unlike any human teacher.  He was the sinless God-man! 

                God the Son took Himself flesh, and became man.  He is the eternal Son of God (Matthew 16:16).  Here are verses that show this:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God” (John 1:1-12 NKJV).

“…God was manifested in the flesh…”  (1 Timothy 3:16 NKJV).

“For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily…” (Colossians 2:9 NKJV).

 The verses that speak to the uniqueness of Christ not merely His greatness are:

“And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowd was amazed and said, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel." (Matthew 9:33 NIV).

“People were overwhelmed with amazement. "He has done everything well," they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak." (Mark 7:37 NIV).

“The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!" (Matthew 8:27 NIV).

Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?" they asked.” "Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas?  Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things? And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor." (Matthew 13:54 NIV).

“Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them.” (Matthew 15:30 NIV).

"Be quiet!" said Jesus sternly. "Come out of him!" The evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek. The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him." (Mark 1:25-27 NIV).

“and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was.” (Mark 1:34 NIV).

“When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed. "Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles!” (Mark 6:2 NIV).

“Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed.” (Luke 11:14 NIV).

“Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.” (Mark 1:45 NIV).

These verses say more then the mere greatness of Christ that people know of compared to other religious figures.  When we hear these verses it is in the context of Incarnate Deity.  It is not a blind assumption.  His deity is clearly seen throughout Scripture (Genesis 16:7-13; 22:11-18; Exodus 3:1-22; Joshua 5:13-15; Isaiah 9:6; John 1:1-3; Romans 9:5; Colossians 1:15-18; Philippians 2:5-11).   It is not in the context of a mere man doing great things.  Jesus Christ is Incarnate Deity who surpasses all men for not even the whole world could not contain His books of miracles (John 21:25).  In the Gospel of John the miracles of Christ attest His Messianic identity (e.g. John 2).  The Gospel of John is the Gospel of belief.  And it speaks of the miracles of Christ that show this but the above verses also show the separateness of Christ.  The Lord Jesus is not like other religious figures.  He is set apart and divinely unique.  If one speaks of the greatness of another religious figure, surely we do not mean that in the same sense as Jesus Christ.  He is altogether separate, altogether pure, altogether great, and altogether divine.  This is separate from mere opinion but it is the truth of God.  There was no one like Jesus Christ in Israel and the entire world.  There will never be another person like Jesus Christ.  Before Him were thieves and robbers.  The Lord Jesus accomplished everything perfectly.  Who among us can truthfully say, “He has done everything well.”  The winds and the waves obeyed Christ because He was the Sovereign King over all of nature.  Which teacher of old has control over the winds and the waves as Christ did?  The Lord Jesus has divine wisdom, and supernatural powers.  People wonder where Christ got these things.  He was and is God from eternality.  Which teacher would heal the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others?  Who is like the Lord Jesus Christ?  Christ had divine authority, and He did not teach like the teachers of His day, because He was the eternal Son of God.  He gave orders to the evil spirits and they obeyed Him.  As King He has authority to do this.  Even the demons know His true identity, and He did not let them speak.  The demons do not believe Christ.  Rather they believe in Christ.  Remember: what James says about the faith of demons.  Christians should not have that faith of demons.  Rather we ought to have the faith of Christ.  The demons know the truth about Christ for they saw Him in heaven when they rebelled.  The devil is the most orthodox created being in the universe, but this does not mean he truly believes.  Christ did not merely have the wisdom like other teachers but He had the true wisdom of God.  He performed miracles because He is Jesus the Omnipotent One.  He is all-powerful as the God-man.  People were amazed at Christ because He was divinely amazing.  When we think of Christ, we should always think of Him as incomparable.  He is the Incomparable One.  There is none like Him.  People came to Christ from everywhere because He could truly heal people, and He gave His apostles authority to heal.  People from everywhere knew of the awesomeness of Christ.  It shows His separateness as God Incarnate. When people speak of what is awesome, they should immediately think of Christ and His work; for His person and work are awesome!  One cannot speak of another figure of another religion and say the same. It is Christ and Him alone who are awesome!  We can truly say only of Him:  “…What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!” (Matthew 8:27 KJV).

                The Jesus of Freemasonry is merely a great moral teacher.  He is like religious figures of other world religions.  If someone wishes to apply divinity to Jesus or another religious figure it is appropriate.  Here are two quotes from Freemason sources:

It [Masonry] reverences all the great reformers.  It sees in Moses, the Law giver of the Jews, in Confucius and Zoroaster, in Jesus of Nazareth, and in the Arabian Iconclast, Great Teachers of Morality, and Eminent Reformers, if no more: and allows every brother of the Order to assign to each such higher and even Divine Character as his Creed and Truth require. [24]

It has been found that every act in the drama of the life of Jesus, and every quality assigned to Christ is to be found in the life of Krishna. [25]

The Jesus of Freemasonry is merely a man, and His deity is a human invention.  This is completely contrary to divine Scripture.  This kind of teaching is not compatible with the Old and New Testament.  It does not honestly portray who Jesus of Nazareth actually is.  The Craft denies the exclusivity of Jesus by affirming to other figures of religions of men.  The Jesus of the New Testament is set apart from the religious figures of the world.  He is not a mere man, nor is He comparable with other religious figures.  They are not a worthy comparison with the Incarnate Savior.  Jesus is the matchless Savior.  As the Bible is the incomparable book with any book in the world, so, too, is the Jesus of the New Testament.  Among all the figures of religion that was none like the Lord Jesus Christ.  He was the authentic Son of God; the divine Word of God or Logos.  As the God of divine Scripture is incomparable, so, too, is the Jesus of the New Testament.  Moses was a great, but he does not compare with Incarnate Deity.  And Jesus was and is the only true Lawgiver.  Confucius and Zoroaster fail to match up with Jesus Christ because they were not the only Son of the Father.  The Father has one divine Son who is well-pleased with: it is the divine Savior.  There is one Son, the Father’s only Son, whom He said, “Listen to Him.”

Of the religious figures of the world, what person can the Father say the same of?  Which one of these religious figures existed from everlasting to everlasting?  Which one of these figures existed before the world was?  Which one of these figures is the Living Self-Existent One who became man?  Who among these men have people said of old, “Who is like this man?”

According to the Craft, Jesus was not God, and trust in the divine Christ is a manmade doctrine.[26]  If a Mason denies the deity of Christ, he has denied an essential truth that is the heart of the gospel.  Here is what they say:

[Christian] Theologians first made a fetish of the Impersonal Omnipresent Divinity; and then tore the Christos from the heats of all humanity in order to deify Jesus, that they might have a god-man peculiarly their own.[27]

This teaching of the Craft is a New Age teaching.  The Lord Jesus was the Christ at His blessed birth.  And the Lord Jesus will come to judge all of humanity. 

The deity of Christ is denied:

God never manifested himself to be seen of men. Creation is his manifestation. [28]

According to the Craft, Jesus was merely a man:

We do not tell the Hebrew that the Messiah whom he expects was born in Bethlehem nearly two thousand years ago…And as little do we tell the sincere Christian that Jesus of Nazareth was but a man like us, or His history but the unreal revival of an older legend.  To do either is beyond our jurisdiction.  Masonry, of no one age, belongs to all time; of no one religion, it finds its great truths in all. [29]

As it has already been shown, the Lord Jesus is described as Deity (Colossians 2:9).  The I AM statements of Jesus demonstrate that He is God incarnate.  Old Testament Scripture shows that Jesus was present as the everlasting God as God the Son (Exodus 3; Joshua 5:13-15). Jesus declared, “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins” (John 8:24 NKJV).  The Lord Jesus declared His deity.  And the Jewish people accursed Him of blasphemy because said He was God.  If the Christian faith is flawed, that means the deity of Christ is flawed.  The deity of Christ is a fundamental doctrine in the heart of the gospel.  Pike claims he has no jurisdiction to make his claim about Jesus yet he made them nonetheless.

The central focus of the Christian faith is the real bodily resurrection of Christ.  People who avoid the prayers in His beloved name do an injustice to the integrity to divine Scripture because divine Writ speaks clearly of praying in the name of Jesus Christ.  Who are the ones seen in Scripture who forbid to pray in the name of Jesus?  Is it those who truly follow Him?  Or is it those who clearly oppose Him?  Turn to Acts 4:17-18, “But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus” (KJV), and Acts 5:40, “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go” (KJV). We see the enemies of the cross, the enemies of the apostles, the very enemies of Christ Jesus, forbidding the apostles to teach in the name of Jesus.  This is exactly what the enemies of Christ do, yes, even today.  The enemies of Christ pretend to be the true followers of Christ and there are consequences (Acts 19:12-14).  Freemasons forbid the speaking in prayer the name of Jesus.  Freemasons omit the references of the name of Christ found in divine Scripture. This is outright tyranny on the sacred pages of Scripture.  They have handled the divine text with sin, and it is a serious offense against a holy and just God.  Let’s turn to where Scripture speaks of God’s people to pray in His name by example.  The name of Christ is held in a high esteem and reverence:

“By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus” (Acts 4:30 KJV).

“But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women” (Acts 8:12 KJV).

“(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)” (Acts 8:16 KJV).

“But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus” (Acts 9:27 KJV).

“And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him” (Acts 9:29 KJV).

“Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 15:26 KJV).

“And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour” (Acts 16:18 KJV).

“When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus” (Acts 19:5 KJV).

“And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified” (Acts 19:17 KJV).

“Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus” (Acts 21:13 KJV).

“I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth” (Acts 26:9 KJV).

“Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's…” (1 Corinthians 1:2 KJV).

“Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” (1 Corinthians 5:4).

“In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ…” (1 Corinthians 1:10 KJV).

“And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:11 KJV).

“Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…”  (Ephesians 5:20 KJV).

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth…” (Philippians 2:10 KJV).

“And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him” (Colossians 3:17 KJV).

“That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thessalonians 1:12 KJV).

“Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us”  (2 Thessalonians 3:6 KJV).

“And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment” (1 John 3:23 KJV).

Therefore the name of Christ should be honored by praying in the name of the Incarnate Christ.  “I rest my soul on Jesus, this weary soul of mine; His right hand me embraces, I on his breast recline.  I love the Name of Jesus, Immanuel, Christ, the Lord; Like fragrance on the breezes His name abroad is poured.”[30]

The title Christ is denied to Jesus; and the title “Christ” refers to a higher consciousness that is in men, and it is achieved through Masonry:

[I]n deifying Jesus, the whole humanity is bereft of Christos as an eternal potency within every human soul, a latent (embryonic) Christ in every man.  In this deifying one man, they have orphaned the whole humanity [of its divinity]. [31]

The blessed Incarnation and the Holy Trinity are inseparably together.  The Trinity doctrine proclaims that Jesus Christ is divine.  The Incarnation proclaims that Christ is fully human as well.  It is central to the Christian faith.  Both doctrines declare the fullness of the divine Savior in the New Testament.  The Son came from the Father, and He does the will of the Father perfectly.  God the Son, the God-man, was the substitute for sinners.

Augustine in Book I of On Christian Doctrine wrote under “Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy Scripture” in Chap. 13.—The Word was made flesh:  “In what way did He come but this, "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us"? Just as when we speak, in order that what we leave in our minds may enter through the ear into the mind of the hearer, the word which we have in our hearts becomes an outward sound and is called speech; and yet our thought does not lose itself in the sound, but remains complete in itself, and takes the form of speech without being modified in its own nature by the change: so the Divine Word, though suffering no change of nature, yet became flesh, that He might dwell among us.” 

The Lord Jesus Christ is never mentioned in ceremonies of the Craft, and specifically, the blessed resurrection of Christ is disregarded:

In a well-ordered lodge, Jesus is never mentioned except in vague, philosophical terms.  Prayers are never prayed in His name, and when scriptures are quoted in the ritual, all references to Him are simply omitted. [32]

The question is, if the divine Christ is denied, and His name utterly avoided, how can a Christian be a Freemason?  How is it possible for a Christian to be a Freemason if the central doctrine of it is rejected?  You cannot have fellowship with Christ and the world.  You cannot walk hand-in-hand with the world and Christ.  They are always opposed to each other.  Satan is the enemy of Christ, and the world is also His enemy.  Christ is the divine Savior.  We must submit to Him to live and have fellowship with His Heavenly Father.  What will you say to the divine Christ when He judges you on the Last Day for rejecting His deity?  What divine righteousness will you have on that day if you deny Him now?  Turn to the divine Savior in a day of mercy and compassion.  Submit to Him before it is too late.  Because you believe you can have fellowship with the world and Jesus, God’s judgment is upon you.  Repent and believe in the gospel of Christ; escape the judgment that approaches (Ezekiel 22:14).  Amen. 

Chapter 4:

Is the Holy Spirit of Freemasonry Biblical?

Listen to what the Spirit says through the sacred writers of Scripture:

“The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters” (Genesis 1:2 NKJV).

The Spirit of God is God.  Why would He inspire falsehood?  Moses clearly shows that He believed that the very Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.  The Spirit hovers over creation.  He was active in creation.  Although it is true that the Father is identified as Creator, the Son as Redeemer, and the Spirit as Sanctifier; it is also true that the Spirit is Creator, for the Holy Trinity created.  It is true that without the Holy Trinity there is no redemption, creation or providence.  Why, then, will you not submit to the Spirit of God Who created, and who is, was, always shall be forevermore?  The Spirit would not be called the Spirit of God if Moses did not mean He was God.  The Spirit worked through Moses, and He spoke of Himself, the very Spirit of truth.  When Moses refers to the Spirit as being of God, it plainly shows that He is God.  No angel could participate in creating; no impersonal force could create.  Rather it is the Spirit of God Who created, and Who is to be worshiped and served; for He is the One Who makes the spiritually dead, alive. 

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God (Acts 5:1-4 NKJV).

There was man named Ananias.  His wife was Sapphira, and they sold their possession.  Ananias directly lied to the Holy Spirit.  He kept back part of the price of the land for himself.  He lied to the Holy Spirit, and Peter refers to the Spirit as God.  Therefore the Spirit is God.  If He is God, every human being owes Him allegiance.  Freemasons deny His deity and personality.  To deny Him is to reject the very nature of God.  The Holy Spirit is a Holy God Who makes His people holy in sanctification.  Here Ananias and Sapphira disobeyed the Holy Spirit and directly lied to Him.  They chose to serve Satan rather then God.  They chose to be subservient to Satan, and linger in sin, rather then devote themselves to the Spirit of God.  Their possessions were more important to them then devotion to God.  They chose to act wickedly, but God chose to act righteously through judgment upon them through the apostle Peter.  Is this not the case with Freemasons?  Have they not chosen to act wickedly in fellowshipping with each other in a group of people who believe foul doctrine, and for social promotion?  Is social promotion more valuable then knowing about the true God and knowing the true God?  Is putting self-interest first a wise decision since God is holy and He cannot tolerate foolish sinfulness?  Peter was right to pronounce a judgment upon them.  This judgment came from God.  When Freemasons engage in social promotion for themselves and, perhaps, a prominent stance of some sort, God will judge them, and maybe it will not be physical death as it was with Ananias and Sapphira, but if belief in their foolish tenets is embraced until death, it will end in the second death.  The second death is spiritual death where the unbeliever will suffer unspeakable torment for all eternality.  Is Freemasonry more important then losing your soul?

“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Corinthians 3:17 NKJV).

This verse speaks of the Lord Who is the Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Lord.  It speaks of His absolute deity.  He, the Spirit of the Lord, brings liberty.  No Freemason who believes their tenets are people of liberty.  In fact, true Freemasons are in bondage to sin, and in bondage to Satan.  To have the Spirit is to have liberty.  Christians are people who have freedom from sin, but not license to sin.  Freemasons are in eternal jeopardy because they deny the deity of the Blessed Spirit of the Lord.  God’s people know the Holy Spirit, and people devoid of the Spirit are none of His.  Christians know they are His because they have His Spirit.  Instead of wanting self-promotion and motivations of self-interest, isn’t it far more important and eternally valuable to have the Spirit of the Lord?  It is not like the Lord needs you.  He can do without your foolish ways of sin and misery.  But He has commanded everyone everywhere to repent and believe in His glorious gospel of grace and peace.  The only way to repent is to have the Spirit of liberty.  He is the One Who quickens the heart with the divine Word of God.  The Spirit of the Lord is the Father’s Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus.  He will never deal with you in wickedness and evil.  He is always holy and just.  He provides liberty to His own.  The pre-converted elect will respond, and it is because of the Spirit of liberty.  Is being a Freemason more valuable then being eternally His?  If you refuse to repent of your wickedness, God has hidden His message from you, and you are blinded from His gospel because it is hid to those who are lost.  You are still responsible for your non-responsiveness and rejection of His matchless gospel.  Those that are His will respond in faith and repentance, and they will come to Him.  He never casts out those who come to Him.  Will you be a man or woman of the world or a man or woman of the Spirit?  Will you live in the liberty of the Spirit or will you live in a life of sin and misery?  God has predestinated a people of liberty, those who are of the Spirit, for it is unto life that He has ordained His own. 

“Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?” (Psalm 139:7 NKJV).

The Spirit is the Spirit of omnipresence.  He is present in all places at all times.  Only a divine person can be present in all places at all times.  There is no creature that can be omnipresent.  Human beings, holy angels, fallen angels and Satan, and every living are created things; they are bound by time and space.  Therefore only the Trinity is omnipresent, and no one else.  The omnipresence of the Spirit is a great comfort and joy to Christian people.  But it is also a great terror to unbelievers because God is angry with them every waking second.  There is never a time when God is not angry with them if they persist in wickedness and impenitence.  There is no where to go.  There is no where to hide.  There is no safe haven in truth, in reality and in experience.  People may have the comfort of their sinful pleasures but it is foolishness and folly because God is everywhere.  His eye is upon the reprobate.  He knows where they are.  He knows what they do.  He sees their daily lives and it is a stench before Him, for they speak about Him as if He inspired them, but no such thought or inspiration entered His mind.  He brings dread to the wicked, and He brings peace to the Christian.  He brings terror to the rebellious, and He brings comfort to the Christian.  He brings judgment to the spiritually corrupt, and He brings spiritual blessings to the Christian.  He brings wrath to the sinner, and He brings goodness and mercy to the Christian.  He rises up and He casts down.  He conquers and He grants peace.  He is the God who is, was and forever shall be.  There is no escape from the all-seeing eye of God: will obey the only begotten God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and repent and believe?  He is watching: what response will you have?

“Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me” (Psalm 51:11 NKJV).

The Holy Spirit is the Father’s Spirit.  He is within the blessed Godhead.  He is God the Holy Spirit.  To be in the Godhead is to be God.  There are three divine persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.  The Trinitarian formula is God is one in essence, but three in person!  David does not mean that the Spirit could leave him, because once someone has the Spirit, He will never leave, forsake or abandon His own people.  The Holy Spirit is the down payment and guarantee for His people.  It is because of human weakness that David utters these words.  This author believes in the preservation of the saints of God.  And I have said these same words uttered by David.  It is perfectly consistent with my position.  David says this because he has sinned, and he fears a consequence.  That is, that the Spirit of God would be taken from Him.  There was a time in my life that I feared the same thing, but I have the guarantee of the Spirit in my heart, and He shall never leave me.  Once someone is a Christian, and he or she has the Holy Spirit, nothing can possess him or her because of the possession of them of the Holy Spirit!  The Spirit is forever with His people, and they submit to Him.  He makes His people holy in sanctification, and He always is there as a faithful God who is holy and true.  It is a clear indication of the divine Spirit in divine Scripture.  David knew of the Spirit, and He is called the Holy Spirit.  In the order of being within the Godhead, there are three distinct persons.  The Father is the First Person of the Trinity, the Son is the Second Person of the Trinity, and the Spirit is the Third Person of the Trinity.  The Father is not greater then the Son in terms of deity, and the Son is not greater then the Father in terms of deity, nor is the Father and the Son greater in terms of deity then the Divine Spirit.  That is, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are co-equal.  It is proper to say that the Spirit belongs to the Father and the Son.  It is perfectly acceptable to say, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father, and He is the Spirit of Christ.  The Spirit precedes from the Father and the Son.  He does not merely precede from the Father only, but from the Father and the Son.  The Three Persons are also co-essential, co-eternal and altogether immutable.  The Father did not become man, nor did the Spirit; but the God the Son became man in the person of Jesus Christ who lives, and reigns forevermore.  Amen. 

The Spirit is not only the Spirit Who brings liberty to men but He is the Spirit of life.  Without Him life would desist to be, but because of Him, we live, and move, and have our being.  Moreover, He will never leave His people, because it is to the praise of His mercy.  He always does what is perfect, righteous and good.  He is the Spirit of glory; He is the Spirit of praise; He is the Spirit of honor; He is the Spirit of the Word; He is the Spirit of truth.  When we speak of the Spirit we know He is God because of the plain testimony of divine Scripture.  Christians know that we can have a personal relationship with Him.  He aids us in prayer; He convicts us of our sin; He comforts us; He admonishes us; He guides us; He is indeed our Lord and God who we ought to love, worship and pray too.  What greater joy is there then to have the Spirit work in the life of a miserable, hopeless and poor sinner?  Isn’t it an offense against God to disobey His Word?  Why, then, do you reject Him Who changes the stony, calloused heart of sinful men?  The Spirit speaks in His Word, and testifies of His righteousness as God.  The Spirit is not like the sons of men who are unfaithful, untrue and unholy.  Didn’t the Son of Man promise a faithful Helper?  Has He not come, and why, do you reject His person, ministry and work?  Will you not submit to the Spirit of life who brings life to those who are dead?

                The cults of this dark world that claim to represent God deny the Christian truth of the personality and deity of the Holy Spirit.  As they deny and reject the deity of Jesus Christ, so, too, they deny and reject the divine person of the Holy Ghost.  It is a fundamental truth connected to the gospel of grace and peace.  Without the Holy Spirit of God there would be no regeneration of the dark heart of man.  So, then, it is essential for people to understand this truth.  Every man would be lost if it was not for the operational work of the Blessed Spirit of truth.  He is the One Who changes the heart; He is the One Who convicts and indwells believers.  Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example, deny the truth of the divine person of the Spirit.  They say He is an impersonal force.  So, then, let us consider what the Craft teaches on this subject that is essential to the gospel.  Some may say “It is not essential to the gospel.”  But I ask, who is the One Who opened the heart of Lydia to respond to the blessed gospel (see Acts 16:14)?  The people of God know the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-18).  The Holy Spirit is none less then God Himself. 

There is a Life-Principle of the world, a universal agent, wherein are two natures and a double current, of love and wrath.  This ambient fluid penetrates everything.  It is a ray detached from the glory of the Sun, and fixed by the weight of the atmosphere and the central attraction.  It is the body of the Holy Spirit, the universal Agent, the Serpent devouring his own tail.[33]

According to the Craft, the Blessed Spirit is merely a type of universal agent.[34]  Divine Scripture teaches the actuality of the deity of the Holy Spirit.  Turn to the Divine Word of God and submit to it for it teaches the deity of the Spirit of God.  How can you stand before God denying Him?  What will that profit you if you persist in unbelief?  Where will that led you in the final outcome of where you will spend eternality?  Will God let you stand before Him while you deny the deity of His Spirit?  Let’s turn to the matchless Word of God and see what it says.  For do you not know that the Spirit is the One who spoke through the holy writers of divine Scripture? 

Chapter 5:

Is Man Basically Good?

Let us turn to that which is God-Breathed, and consider what divine Scripture teaches. 

Psalm 51: 5:  “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me” (NASB).

Mankind was brought forth iniquity.  This does not mean that the act of sex within marriage is sinful.  If sex was done outside of marriage, the act itself would be sin.  But what David here is speaking about is the radical fallenness of mankind.  He understood that human beings are fundamentally sinful.  He understood that he was brought forth in iniquity.  What else does divine Scripture says about the nature of mankind? 

John 2:24-25:  “But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man” (ESV).

When we look at the New Testament we do not see that it teaches that man is basically good.  In fact, this is the farthest notion from the holy writers of divine Scripture. We see that divine Scripture teaches the depravity and darkness of man.  In these verses we see the Lord Jesus not entrusting himself to the people.  We see that the Lord Jesus knew all of them.  This means He knew them as He does all men.  The Lord Jesus is the God-man; He has the divine attribute of God.  That is, He has the attribute of omniscience.  The Lord Jesus did not need any person to bear witness about man; for He knew what was in man.  The Lord Jesus knew that men loved darkness rather then light because their deeds were evil.  Therefore it is plainly seen that Jesus taught the depravity and darkness of man, and He did not teach the goodness of men in any respect. 

Mark 10:17-19: “As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up to Him and knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone. "You know the commandments, 'DO NOT MURDER, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, Do not defraud, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER” (NASB).

This passage is often misinterpreted as denying the goodness of Jesus Christ.  But the sacred text teaches nothing of the sort.  It does not deny the goodness of Jesus Christ.  In reality, it is perfectly consistent with divine Scripture concerning the totally depravity of man, and the absolute goodness of the Triune Lord.  The contrast is the goodness of the Trinity, and the corruption of mankind.  The Christian Bible does not deny the goodness of Jesus Christ.  We see that in the Book of Acts that Jesus is called the Holy One and the Just (see Acts 3:14).  If Jesus is God He must be uniquely holy; that is, He is set apart.  The Father, Son and Holy Spirit are holy.  We see that the angels in Isaiah proclaim to one another about the holiness of God (see Isaiah 6:1-3).  That is, God is superlatively holy.  It is absurd to say that the Lord Jesus Christ is bad.  In actuality, this sacred text refers to the totally depravity of mankind.  Jesus is clearly saying that mankind is not good, and mankind is thoroughly corrupt.  Mankind needs the commandments of God, and yet it was the testimony of Jesus Christ that none of them kept the law of God.  We see that the law of God is given to sinners because law is needed amongst transgressors.  Jesus Christ perfectly obeyed the law of God.  The New Testament clearly presents the sinlessness of the Lord Jesus.  That is, He is perfectly holy; perfectly good; perfectly just. 

Romans 3: 10-18 reads:

10as it is written:
   "None is righteous, no, not one;
 11no one understands;
   no one seeks for God.
12All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
   no one does good,
   not even one."
13"Their throat is an open grave;
   they use their tongues to deceive."
"The venom of asps is under their lips."
 14"Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
15"Their feet are swift to shed blood;
 16in their paths are ruin and misery,
17and the way of peace they have not known."
 18"There is no fear of God before their eyes."  (NASB).

This understanding is based on the Old Testament (see Psalm 14:1; 53:1-3).  It is not something novel.  The truth of the total depravity of man was a reality in time and space even in Old Testament times.  It is no less true in the days of the history of the New Testament and in the day we live.  It must get into our heads that mankind is not righteous; he does not understand the true things of God; for they are foolishness to him; and mankind is not good but wholly corrupt and thoroughly bad, depraved, dark, desperately wicked.  In our day, in the wickedest crimes people still maintain the goodness of man, but in reality it is a testimony against such absurd, spiritual foolishness.  The fact is, unregenerate mankind is bound by sin and Satan.  Their ways are the ways of misery and destruction.  They have no fear of God before their eyes.  The peace of Christ, and the peace of the Cross, is foreign to them because they trust in their own self-righteousness.  Mankind is a selfish race of people who, by nature, are hostile in their minds about the God of the Christian Bible.  Unregenerate mankind has a dark soul incapable of pleasing God in their corrupted flesh. 

Jeremiah 17:9: "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?”  (NASB).

We learn in this verse that the human heart is desperately deceitful and hopelessly sick.  When this author says “hopelessly sick” he does not mean it in the Arminian sense, but that the heart is sinful.  Mankind’s condition is beyond mere sickness.  Rather, it is radically corrupt and thoroughly wicked.  Calvinism is consistent with this position of divine Scripture.  Who can boast of their goodness?  In reality, not one human soul can boast of his or her goodness.  Human goodness, in and of itself, is a myth.  Mankind is beyond the capability of goodness that avails before God.  Mankind can only commit deeds of civil righteousness.  These deeds do not avail before God.  God views righteous deeds as filthy rages.  We learn that the human heart is incapable of comprehension because it is dreadfully wicked.  The heart of mankind is radically corrupt. Such an explanation escapes our understanding.  We wonder and attempt to grasp our depraved hearts, but the explanation escapes us.  We learn that man is not merely sick, but that he is radically corrupt, totally depraved, an abomination in the sight of God.  When we look to ourselves and boast in our goodness we do not have a clue of the priceless value of the imputed, unified righteousness of Jesus Christ.  When we truly understand the desperate need of the imputed righteousness of Christ by faith alone we will see that there is no room for the alleged goodness of man.  Out of gratitude for the love of God in Christ Jesus we are to accomplish good works.  These good works are acceptable in His sight because they are done in Christ.  But good works do not form the basis of justification.  If we do good works to form a basis for justification, we nullify God’s grace.  We ought to understand that in man there is nothing good whatsoever.  We need the sovereign work of regeneration in our hearts.  We need God’s intervention.  There shall be multitudes of people on the Last Day that bet on their goodness will avail for them.  The doctrine of goodness of man is as dung before God.  It is a stench in His nostrils. 

Romans 7:18: “For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not”  (NASB).

We learn from this sacred verse that Paul says “nothing good dwells in me.”  We see that man is unrighteous, unholy, wicked, sinful and most miserable.  Every department of man is tainted by sin.  In fact, it can be rightly stated that man is always sinning.  Sometimes we sin and realize it.  Others time we sin and we do not realize it.  The nature of mankind militates against of the goodness of mankind.  We need to learn that there is nothing pleasing in our flesh in God’s sight.  This omits all the works mankind can do.  We tend to think of works of mankind as good.  But we fail to understand that good works are from a corrupt heart.  Mankind has the appearance of good works but they are thoroughly tainted with exceeding sin.  The sins committed by mankind are infinitely worse in the sight of God.  We may think we are not as bad as we think.  We may have a high view of ourselves, but if we do we fail to grasp the biblical support for the radically corrupt condition of man.  We need to have a right understanding of the nature of mankind.  If we fail to understand the true nature of mankind, we will reject God’s gospel, and His gift of the reckoned righteousness of the spotless Lamb of God.  We need to understand that God is holy.  He requires complete perfection, holiness, goodness.  He sent forth His Son to bear the sin of His elect only.  By faith alone we receive the imputed righteousness of Christ by which we can stand before a holy and just God.  We cannot save ourselves by our own self-effort or strength.  God seeks those who need Him desperately, and who are broken people.

                First, let us understand what Masonry teaches about the nature of man.  We know from their literature that it teaches man is basically good though in an imperfect state:[35]

By the Rough Ashlar we are reminded of our rude and imperfect state by nature; by the Perfect Ashlar, of that state of perfection at which we hope to arrive by a virtuous education, by our endeavors, and by the blessing of God.[36]

Masonry denies that human nature is a depraved thing:

Nor does Masonry teach that human nature is a depraved thing, like the ruin of a once proud building.  Many think that man was once a perfect being but that through some unimaginable moral catastrophe he became corrupt unto the last moral fiber of his being, so that, without some kind of supernatural or miraculous help from outside of him, he can never [be saved].[37]

This paragraph seems to outline the Bible’s position and rejected it.  How radical is the departure of Masonry from the Christian Bible?  Doesn’t the Christian Bible teach that mankind is good by nature?  If man is rude and imperfect, doesn’t that constitute man’s depravity?  If Masonry was consistent it would be mean that.  But we see that mean it in a limited fashion.  By nature, mankind is not thoroughly corrupt.  The old phrase “too err is human” should illustrate the depravity of man.  We can merely look at the behavior of men, and, we can see their corruption.  We see that the biblical position is represented as the counter position.  It is because man’s world religions are man-focused, centered and esteemed.  Human religion esteems man’s nature higher then what God sees them.  “For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.” (Luke 16:15 NKJV).    

May we sing:

Nothing good within me,

need the righteousness reckoned to me

wholly the work of the Divine Redeemer

imputed righteousness to me

my garments; my covering

grace boundless, measureless and free,

Amen, so let it be.

The Craft teaches that mankind is basically good.  But the Christian Bible teaches mankind is radically corrupt and fallen.  Should we let human tradition, and the inventions and the imaginations of mankind dictate our interpretations of divine Scripture?  Or should we let divine Scripture speak for itself by the proclamation of divine truth?  The divine Word has clearly stated the position Masonry rejects.  How is it God-honoring to reject God’s Word by His Spirit?  Christians ought to heed the God-appointed message of Scripture.  Christians ought not to heed the traditions of men in Freemasonry. 

If man is totally depraved, is it possible that we can become divine?  The Bible teaches that man is a mere creature. The Bible clearly denies the existence of other gods.  It maintains that God alone is God:  “I am the LORD, and there is no other; Besides Me there is no God I will gird you, though you have not known Me…”  (Isaiah 45:5 NASB).   The Bible denies the divinity of man but Freemasonry teaches the divinity of man:  “[T]he great secret of Masonry [is] that it makes a man aware of that divinity within him.”[38]  Freemasonry teaches that its purpose is “to reach the spiritual and divine within himself.”[39]  Mankind was created in the image and likeness of God.  We will not become gods because we are creatures.

Chapter 6:

Is Salvation Obtained By Good Works?

We have seen that Scripture teaches no one is good.  Corrupt people cannot do what is good or pleasing in God’s sight (see Romans 8:8).  The divine Scripture teaches that salvation is not on the basis of deeds:

“He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit…”  (Titus 3:5 NASB).

The Lord of heaven and earth saved His people by the work of Another.  The Father sent His Son to live a sinless life, and die a righteous death for His people.  His death was substitutionary atonement for His beloved few.  The Blessed Trinity saved His people wholly by the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.  He saved His own, not on the grounds of our good deeds.  In Isaiah 64:6  it says,  “For all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; and all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away”  (NASB).   In 2 Timothy 2:9 it clearly says that He “…saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity…”  (NASB).  We learn in Romans 9 that it is the election by God and not because of any good or bad but of Him who calls.  We learn that God takes the Divine Initiative:

10And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac;

11for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

12it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER."

13Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED."

14What shall we say then?  There is no injustice with God, is there?  May it never be!

15For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION."

16So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.  (Romans 9:10-16 NASB).

Jacob knew it was not by good works but of Him Who calls.  That is, it is God Who changes the heart.  It is neither of him who wills of runs but on God who shows mercy.  That is, people cannot save themselves by their own virtue or strength. 

Let consider further what divine Scripture teaches about the instrument of justification.  In Ephesians 2:9-10, “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”  (NASB).  We are saved by faith unto good works.  God created us beforehand as His workmanship to accomplish good works.  The good works do not form the grounds of justification.  The righteousness of Christ alone forms the grounds of our justification: “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.  "I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly."  (Galatians 2:20-21 NASB).  “…and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith…”  (Philippians 3:9 NASB).  And Romans 5:17 says, “For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ” (NASB).  In light of this, Clement of Rome taught the same thing.  He wrote, “All these, therefore, were highly honored, and made great, not for their own sake, or for their own works, or for the righteousness which they wrought, but through the operation of His will. And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”[40] Romans 3 speak of the truth of the doctrine of faith alone and Christ alone:

 21But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,

22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

24being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

25whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;

26for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

27Where then is boasting? It is excluded By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

29Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 

30since indeed God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith is one.

31Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law.  (NASB).

The sacred text speaks of faith alone, and the righteousness of Christ alone in Romans 4:

1What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?

2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

3For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."

4Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.

5But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

6just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 

7"BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.
8"BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT."

9Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, "FAITH WAS CREDITED TO ABRAHAM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."  (NASB).

We live in a world that believes people will go to heaven on the basis of good works.  “But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace” (Romans 11:6 NASB).  If our heart is broken before God we will see the need for repentance, and desperately cling to the Cross of Jesus Christ.  We need the all-sufficient atonement of Jesus Christ because we are desperately wicked.  The Lord Jesus Christ provided reconciliation in Romans 5:11, “And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”  That is, true Christians have reconciliation through the Lord Jesus Christ.  Reconciliation comes exclusively through the Lord Christ.  People need to consider who will spend eternity in heaven.  Christians know the sole basis of justification is Jesus Christ. Without the reconciliation by Jesus Christ for His people, people will never be right with God.  In 2 Corinthians 5:19 says, “namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.” (NASB). In the Word of God is the divine truth of the Word of reconciliation.  People are sinners who need to be reconciled to God through the Lord Jesus Christ.  If a person does not know the all-sufficient Savior, who alone forms the grounds of justification, he or she will perish in their sins in eternal torment forevermore. 

                We now turn to what Freemasonry teaches about how someone goes to heaven.  Freemasonry teaches that a person is to remain obedient to the Lodge, and perform good works.[41]  Let us listen very carefully to what is being said. 

Let us imitate the good man in his virtuous and amiable conduct, in his unfeigned piety to God, in his inflexible fidelity to his trust, that we may welcome death as a kind messenger sent from our Supreme Grand Master to translate us from this imperfect to that all perfect and glorious Lodge above, where the Supreme Architect of the Universe presides.[42]

Freemasonry teaches only good men go to heaven.  We now turn to who will dwell in heaven with the Blessed Trinity.

               

Chapter 7:

Who Will Dwell With God In Eternity?

The Bible teaches that Christians are to be true professors and true possessors of the true faith of Christianity.  People are not to be mere professors of the faith.  Making a profession of faith has never saved anyone.  People are called to be professors and possessors.  People must possess the true faith of Christ in order to be saved.  Many people nowadays believe you can claim to be a believer, and that seems like enough.  Christians know this is in error.  Only those who truly professor and truly possess the faith of Christ will reside in heaven with God.  True Christians will reside in heaven with God.  Christians have the imputed righteousness of Christ alone.  We do not rely on our own obedience.  We need the perfect righteousness of Christ alone.  The works of the sons of men will not meet God’s test of pure righteousness.  It is in the righteousness of Christ alone that we have true peace.  We must remember that the righteousness of Christ is necessary and sufficient.  It is necessary because we lack heavenly righteousness.  It is sufficient because it is the righteousness of the divine Redeemer.  The people who will dwell with God in eternity are the people of God.  The people of God do not rely on their good works.  The people of God rely solely on the righteousness of the Lamb of God.  They understand that no other alleged “righteousness” will avail.  We need the righteousness of Christ to stand before a holy and just God. 

God is superlatively holy, good, righteous and just.  He is infinitely righteous and holy.  This means that God cannot tolerate the sins of men.  From His absolute righteousness comes His perfect and just wrath.  He will burn in furious wrath against those who are impenitent.  Those who have the righteousness of Christ alone in their behalf understand that God grants His chosen the fruits of faith and repentance.  God grants His people the fruits of faith and repentance because of sovereign regeneration.  God changes the stony heart of men.  In this, men are completely passive.   It is God who is the Divine Initiator.  God imputes to the believing sinner the righteousness of His Only Beloved Son by faith alone.  The sins of His people are imputed to the Son on the Cross.  Every sin was punished on the Divine Substitute.  This is great transfer that is eternally precious to the believer. 

Only those who have their sins punished on Christ will be allowed into heaven.  None of the residents in hell had their sins punished on Christ.  If they did, it shows His substitutionary atonement failed.  God would be unjust to punish the sins of His people in hell if He punished them on Christ.  Masonic rituals and ceremonies do not refer to the doctrine of hell.[43]  The Bible teaches that hell is a real place of dread, darkness and despair.  It is the absence of God’s retraining grace, the presence of His righteous wrath and punitive justice.  But the Bible teaches there is no sin that is so great that cannot be atoned.

The atonement should produce a reverent sense of gratitude in our hearts.  It should not produce a license to sin.  Those who are of the Spirit live according to the Spirit.  Those who are of the flesh live according to the flesh.  Christians must live as people who possess the only true righteousness of Christ.   How we live shows what we really believe.  If Christians live as people who engage in the Craft, they have demonstrated that they are deceived.  When people are deceived it is hard to recognize the deception.  The divine Scripture clearly present the truth on the doctrines reviewed in this book.  Will your response be acceptable in the sight of the Trinity?  Will you heed the message of the divine Word of God?   You have seen what the Bible teaches, and what Freemasonry teaches.  There can be no mistake about it.  The Craft is not where a Christian should be.  This message is for you, and your children.  Repent of being a Freemason, or even considering it.  Christians are to enjoy God and glorify Him forever.  If sin is in your life, it will obstruct enjoying and glorifying Him.  Will you enjoy and glorify the Lord by heeding this loving message? 

End Notes

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[1] Trinity Hymnal.  Baptist Edition, (GA: Great Commission Publications, Inc., 2000), Hymn 429.

[2] John Ankerberg and Weldon. The Secret Teachings of the Masonic Lodge: A Christian Perspective, (Chicago: Moody Press, 1990), p. 212.

[3] Albert Pike.  Morals And Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, (Charleston: Supreme Council of the Thirty-third Degree for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, 1917), p. 246.

[4] John Ankerberg and Weldon, p. 244.

[5] Pike.  pp. 321, 567.

[6] Pike, p. 13-14.

[7] Joseph Fort Newton.  The Bible in Masonry, In The Holy Bible, The Great Light in Masonry, Containing the Old and New Testaments.  Masonic ed. Philadelphia: A.J. Holman Co., 1957, p. 5.

[8] Henry Wilson Coil.  Coil’s Masonic Encyclopedia, (New York: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1971), p. 520.

[9] Eighty-One Questions About Freemasonry, Third Printing, (Issued Under Authority of The Grand Lodge of Oklahoma, January 1967), p. 24.

[10] Rev. Gerald C. Treacy, S.J. Humanum Genus: Encyclical Letter of His Holiness, Pope Leo XII on Freemasonry, Illinois: Tan Books And Publishers, Inc., 1978), April 20, 1884, p. 18-19.

[11] Raymond Lee et al., Tennessee Craftsmen or Masonic Textbook, p. 1.  Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p. 142.  It says., “Great Architect of the Universe, in Thy name we have assembled and in Thy name we desire to proceed in all our doings.”

[12] Robert I. Clegg, rev. Mackey’s Revised Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, 1:409-10.  Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p. 142.  It says, “God is equally present with the pious Hindoo [sic]…the Jew…the Mohammedan…and the Christian in the church.”

[13] Pike, p. 226.

[14] Pike, p. 516.

[15] Pike, p. 744-745.  Pike says, “The Hebrew books were written only to recall to memory the traditions; and they were written in Symbols unintellgigible to the Profane [non-Masons].”  Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p. 141.

[16] Henry Wilson Coil.  Coil’s Masonic Encyclopedia, (New York: Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1971), p. 517.

[17] H. Wayne House.  Charts of Cults, Sects & Religious Movements.  (Michigan:  Zondervan Publishing House, 2000), p. 142.

[18] Coil, pp. 516-17.

[19] G.A. Kenderdine, New Age magazine, as quoted in J. W. Acker, Strange Altars: A Scriptural Appraisal of the Lodge, p. 37. Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p.142.

[20] House, p. 143.

[21] Pike, p. 525.

[22] House, p. 143.

[23] Proceedings of the Grand Loge of Texas, December 22, 1920.  Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p. 143.

[24] Pike, p 525.

[25] J.D. Buck. Symbolism or Mystic Masonry, (Chicago: Ezra A. Cook Publishing, 1925), p. 119.

[26] House, p. 144.

[27] Buck, p. 57.

[28] Buck, p. 276.

[29] Pike, p 524.

[30] Trinity Hymnal, Hymn 430.

[31] R. Swineburne Clymer, The Mysticism of Masonry, (CA: Philosophical Publishing Co., 1900), p. 47.  Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p. 144.

[32] Jim Shaw and Tom McKinney. The Deadly Deception, (Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1988), p. 76.

[33] Pike, p 734.

[34] House, p. 145.

[35] House, p. 146.

[36] Raymond Allen et al., Tennessee Craftsmen or Masonic Textbook, p. 13.  Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p. 146.

[37] H. L. Haywood, The Great Teaching of Masonry, (Richmond: Macoy, 1971), p. 138.

[38] Joseph Fort Newton, The Builders: A Story and Study of Freemasonry, p. 284. Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p. 147.

[39] Henry C. Clausen, Clausen’s Commentaries on Morals and Dogma, (San Diego: Supreme Council, 33^rd Degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction of the U.S.A., 1976), p. 157.  Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p. 147.

[40] ANF: Vol. I, The Apostolic Fathers, First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Chapter 32.

[41] House, p. 147.

[42] Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of the Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason, p. 68.  Also cited in Charts of the Cults, Sects & Religious Movements by H. Wayne House, p. 147.

[43] House, p. 147.

 “These days it seems that some people who claim to be Christian are caught up in Freemasonry.  This book exposes the sins of Freemasonry regarding matters of doctrine.  Only a person willing to recognize their sin, by God’s grace, will be transformed.  If there was only one Christian person in Freemasonry, this book would still be meant for you.  If someone does not believe in the essentials of biblical Christianity, and considers themselves a Christian, it is still good for you to read this book to gain an understanding of what true Christianity teaches. Perhaps God will work in your heart about the Christian faith.  If someone believes Freemasonry, and claims to be a Christian, this book is meant for you.  If you are a Reformed Christian, and you desire to hear a presentation of divine truth in refutation of falsehood, this presentation of God’s Word is also for you.”