Freemasonry’s three main tenets of Brotherhood,
Charity and Truth are attractive to many people. They see the help Freemasons generously
provide to schools, needy families and in disaster relief, and want to be a part
of an organization that does so much good.
Because Freemasons are organized into many different, secretive levels,
many who are drawn to the good they see can be unaware of the errors that
Freemasons also believe.
While the monitors given to Freemasons may
differ slightly from Grand Lodge to Grand Lodge, the general tenets of belief
within Freemasonry are largely similar.
Following is a list of some of the errors of Freemasonry:
- Freemasons
teach that different religions have different Saviours and all are equally
valid. A saviour for Hindus is Krishna; the Chinese have Kioun-tse; Sosiosch is a saviour for the Persions;
Jesus for the Christians, etc. The
Saviour for Freemasons is Hiram Abiff.
Yahushua (“Jesus”) is therefore not unique. Such a belief is in direct contradiction of
the word of the Supreme Ruler of Heaven and Earth which states:
Let it be known to you all . . . [that] the name of Yahushua the
Annointed of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom Yahuwah raised from the dead .
. . This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the
chief cornerstone.’ Nor is
there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven
given among men by which we must be saved.
(Acts 4:10-12)
- “It was the single object of all the ancient rites and mysteries
practiced in the very bosom of pagan darkness . . . to teach the immortality of the Soul. This is still
the great design of the third degree of Masonry.” (Ahimon Rezon, 1947 ed., p. 141.)
Scripture is clear that there is only one who
has immortality, natural and underived: “[Yahuwah] is the
blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has
immortality.” (1
Timothy 6:15, 16) Thus, there is no
eternal life or life after death that is not a
gift from the Creator.
- Freemasons
are correctly monotheistic and believe in the Fatherhood of one Supreme Being.
However, they err when one’s “conception
of the Supreme Being is left to his own interpretation.” (Indiana
Monitor and Freemason's Guide, 1993 ed., p. 41) There are many ideas about the
Creator, but not all are correct nor are all interpretations equally
valid.
Scripture
warns:
“Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible El into an image made like
corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.” (Romans 1:22-23)
- “Freemasonry has
been teaching for centuries . . . the capabilities of man to reach a higher
level of perfection through education and training . . . The philosophy of
Freemasonry is to make man the master of his own destiny, to show him . . .
that he can, through his own efforts . . . inscribe his name in the ‘Book of
Life.’ ” ("Freemasonry and
Organized Religion," The Pennsylvania Freemason, February 1989, p. 7)
Scripture teaches that all attempts at salvation by works will fail, “For
by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” (Galatians 2:16)
The Heavenly Father invites Masons to leave
behind the errors that are keeping them from full knowledge and learn of Him
the true secrets of eternal life, eternal joy and eternal love.
