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It is an intellectual and spiritual impossibility for anyone who clearly understands the teachings of Freemasonry and the teachings of the Bible to whole-heartedly embrace them both at the same time. While claiming that it “nowhere denies any fundamental doctrine of any religion,” Freemasonry stands diametrically opposed to many Biblical truths that are the very foundation of Biblical faith. In the following quotations, all added emphasis is mine unless otherwise stated.
Freemasonry and Truth
In Freemasonry: Its Aims and Ideals, J. S. M. Ward writes:
It [Freemasonry] nowhere denies any fundamental doctrine of any religion, and in consequence experience has shown that a Christian, a Jew, a Hindoo [sic.], and a Mohammedan [Moslem] can all be Masons, and yet remain loyal to their faiths. If there was any real conflict between Masonry and any religion, assuredly it would have arisen with one of these diverse types. In reality, Freemasonry teaches those spiritual truths on which all religions are based and which are common to all, and leaves its sons to add such further embellishments as they themselves consider true and desirable. No religion is endangered by Freemasonry; but, on the other hand, there is no room for bigots in our Order. Each man is entitled to think his conception of the Truth is the best, but he is not entitled to interfere with the conception of the Truth held by another. (p. 186)
This statement alone is a denial of the very central doctrine of true Biblical faith, that Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Christ), Israel's Messiah, and He alone, is the only source of God’s Truth. There may be “no room for bigots” in Freemasonry, but the Son of God leaves the one who believes in Him no room to be either complacent or compromising when it comes to “the conception of the Truth.” Concerning “the Truth,” the Bible says:
Yeshua said to him [Thomas] “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.” (John 14:6)
For the [Torah] was given through Moshe. Grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah. No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. (John 1:17-18)
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:23-24)
Yeshua therefore said to those Yehudim who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my talmidim. You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:31-32)
Therefore Yeshua said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came forth and have come from God. For neither have I come of myself, but he sent me. Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God.” (John 8:42-47)
“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.” (John 15:26-27)
Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Yeshua answered, “You say that I am a king. To this end I have been born, and to this end I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” (John 18:37)
The phrase “Freemasonry teaches those spiritual truths on which all religions are based and which are common to all” is a typical Satanic lie. Like most of Satan’s lies, it is a half-truth that sound good unless one takes the time to listen to what it is really said. The truth is that Freemasonry teaches those spiritual concepts, not truths, on which all human religions are based; and all human religions are based on Satan’s statement in Eden that the rest of Scriptures refers to by the technical term the Lie: “You will not surely die, … your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God….” (Gen. 3:4-5) This is the antithesis of true Biblical faith, which says that “God is one” [Deut. 6:4]. The God of Avraham, Yitzhak, and Ya`akov says:
“You are My witnesses,” says the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He: before Me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after Me.” (Isa. 43:10)
“[T]hat they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides Me: I am the LORD, and there is no one else.” (Isa. 45:6)
“Declare you, and bring [it] forth; yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown this from ancient time? who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, the LORD? and there is no God else besides Me, a just God and a Savior; there is no one besides Me.” (Isa. 45:21)
“Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; [I am] God, and there is none like Me.” (Isa. 46:9)
“You shall have no other gods before me. (Exod. 20:3)
Yeshua said this about the Lie: “You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it [the Lie].” (John 8:44)
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