Do you think that Free Masonry contradicts Christianity?

Question

I have heard the argument before and I wont put it up here ( search free masonry- christianity argument or something like that on google) but I just wanted your personal opinion about it.

To Part-Time,
If it is all secret socioty stuff, then dont you think that many Christians would be turned away from it and either not join or leave???

Answer 1

Nope. Free Masons have to state the belief in a supreme Deity, they do not have to say which Deity. So, Christians can be Free Masons, unless they have a problem with belonging to an organization that may include (gasp) non-Christian members. All the other misinformation that some "Christians" like to post comes from the same source as their misinformation about Catholics- propaganda from their church and an inability or unwillingness to verify information for themselves.

Answer 2

Masonry does contradict Christianity in its wide range of belief systems about the world. Masonry accepts many things Christianity does not. To be a Mason you do not have to believe that Jesus is God, or son of God.
The two systems are incompatible. Masonry is anti-Christian even though they give lip service to Christianity. Get some older Masons to tell those very lousy Anti-Catholic jokes and you will see how bad Masonry can be.

Answer 3

It's funny how people judge so much when they know how little. It's like Muslims judging Christians and vice versa- just assumptions. What good is it to say your a Christian, Muslim, or whatever..... if you're judgmental this is the same poison that causes genocide, persecution, and social disorder. The Freemasons were the founding fathers of many countries, the greatest minds of all times, the protectors of freedom of all men. Though many early masons were slave owners like many Christians, Muslims of those times but none the less they gave the basic foundations. Fundamentalist Muslims and Christians are more scary. I suggest anyone wanting to know must try and still has the freedom to withdraw from membership. All the Masons I have known do good for the community, and like ALL HUMANS HAVE PERSONAL FAULTS... but masons appear to have a greater tolerance and acceptance of all religions, races, place of origination, they are bound by principles of respect of all humanity. Charitable work for the community and all freedoms of the world isn't a concept, it is a mandate that must be done without reservation or judgmental inclinations. Something that all people especially judgmental Christians, Muslims, etc. should do... And yes it is greatly possible that Jesus and His father were Masons, because they were carpenters and during the lost years it was believed that Jesus possibly worked in Egypt and many kingdoms known to built by Freemasons (as builders not rulers).

Answer 4

I have been a Mason for almost 30 years. No it does not contradict Christianity when many are Christians. They use the Bible and the Knights Templar were Christian Priests.
My Consistory of the 32 degree puts on a Passion Play for the public every year.
Rev. TomCat 32*

Answer 5

Yes Freemasonry contradicts the Bible.
Thirty-second Degree Mason J. D. Buck [the 32nd degree is the second highest degree in all Freemasonry], writes in his book, Symbolism or Mystic Masonry:

“Every soul must ‘work out its own salvation,’ and ‘take the Kingdom of Heaven by force.’ Salvation by faith and the vicarious atonement were not taught, as now interpreted, by Jesus, nor are these doctrines taught in the exorteric [sic.] Scriptures. They are later and ignorant perversions of the original doctrines. In the Early Church, as in the Secret Doctrine, there was not one Christ for the whole world, but a potential Christ in every man. Theologians first made a fetish of the Impersonal, Omnipresent Divinity; and then tore the Christos from the hearts of all humanity in order to deify Jesus; that they might have a God-man peculiarly their own!” (p. 57).

Ward agrees with Buck:

“Freemasonry, in practice, teaches that all good men, whatever their personal beliefs, have a right to hope for salvation” (pp. 186-187).

Does the Bible agree with Freemasonry that that “all good men have a right to hope for salvation,” or does it teach that there is one, and only one, Source of salvation for all men?

[B]e it known to you all, and to all the people of Yisra'el, that in the name of Yeshua the Messiah of Natzeret, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in Him does this man stand here before you whole. He is “the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which was made the head of the corner.” There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, in which we must be saved!” (Acts 4:10-12)

These are only 2 things in Freemasonry that are proofs that the Mason can not be a True Christian and a Mason at the same time.

Answer 6

The Freemasons, at least the ones in the USA, are a businessman's club so that intellectual types can network and make connections for investment and/or industrial projects.

And that's the American way. It has little to do with Christianity outside of the fact that a vast majority of Americans are a member of some Christian denomination.

Answer 7

Perhaps some Christians contradict Freemasonry, but Freemasonry most certainly does not contradict Christianity.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that Freemasonry is much more active in the promotion of brotherhood, fair-dealing, charity and benevolence than many of certain church denominations characterized by ridicule, non-acceptance, and intolerance for the beliefs of other non-members.

Answer 8

Free Masonry definately contradicts it.

No Christian has any business joining it.

Ultimately, it is the occult, not just a false cult.

The occult is actually worse.

Pastor Art

Answer 9

Free Masonry is absolutely incompatible with Christianity.

The reasons are many, and they vary from place to place, but the fact remains.

Any Christian who belongs to Free Masonry needs to sever that relationship ... and do it fast.

Answer 10

that's actual, it became supposedly a Christian united states (extra or much less), however the Atheists grew in quantity and the ACLU have been given a foothold and commenced the destruction technique to attempt to take God out of each and every thing. it is likewise actual that there's no actual such concern as separation of church and state. that's a fantasy and the antichristians are employing this as an excuse to take God out of each and every thing. that's a great fat lie and that may not what the form ability in any respect.