Who hasn’t seen or heard about the miniature cars driven by Shriners at parades throughout the country? While the Shriners do some good things, (like the Shriner’s Hospitals), they are not a Christian organization by any stretch of the imagination…
To become a Shriner, a person must first be at least a third-degree or Master Mason.
Masons or Freemasons (aka The Craft) do not hold fast to the one true God of the Bible. Instead, they believe that “each man must act with courage, fidelity, and devotion to his God”... who or whatever that may be. That could mean Allah, Shiva, Gaia, or any other god.
It doesn’t matter...
Freemasonry had its origins in the guilds of 14th-century stonemasons that regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. Over time, Freemasonry has evolved to focus more on good works and self-improvement. They hold that “By becoming an active part of the Masonic community, a man can build himself into a better man.”
Freemasonry is completely at odds with Christianity. Freemasons do not consider the Bible to be the exclusive Word of God. They also reject the deity and sufficiency of Jesus Christ. When a person takes the oath of Freemasonry, they swear that the following is true...
• The Great Architect of the Universe is represented by all gods in all religions
This is not Biblical... Exodus 20:1-5 reads, “Then God spoke all these words, saying, 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not worship them nor serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God...
• Salvation can be earned by good works
This is in direct conflict with Ephesians 2:8-9 which reads, “8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
• Jesus is just one of many equally wise prophets
Again, not at all Biblical. Scripture is clear on this. Colossians 2:9 reads, “For in Him (Christ) the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily.”
Since this oath contradicts the teaching of Scripture, Freemasons are not Christians as they deny the deity and sufficiency of Christ. Instead, Freemasonry acts to draw people away from Jesus, not toward Him.
Works alone will not save us. Instead, confessing our sins and turning from them will...
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit... (Titus 3:5)
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)
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Sadly, there is way more to Freemasonry than they let on in public. They are luciferian to the core, although the members don't typically find that out until they get to the 33rd degree. You mention needing to be 3rd degree to be a Shriner. It is my understanding it is 33rd degree. However, there are different kinds of Freemason lodges and groups and also phases and degrees. The terminology gets a bit mixed.
More and more is coming out about it. Part of their luciferianan practices and rites includes sacrifice, both animal and human, along with trafficking of children and other heinous things.
Hi Jim, being in Australia I must say that I am one of those few people who hasn’t seen or heard about the miniature cars driven by Shriners at parades throughout the country.
Sure looks weird to me, and they look like bored old men in silly hats!
Isn't it strange that people think they can earn money by doing stupid things?
Yet someone pays them, or sponsors them, and they keep doing it.
I suppose it is a bit weird so it gets reported, and then they get some attention for their charitable cause.
Yet they are in fact using the same formula for spreading the Gospel that Jesus wants us to use:
Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven. (Matt 5:16)
When we do good works people will glorify our God due to the benefit they have gained, and they will also then, presumably, be drawn to worship our God.
So good works are good, not only for others but also to glorify God. And God expects us to do good works.
No, our works don't give us salvation, but if we don't do good to others then we are warned that we will be rejected by God:
"Then He shall answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life." (Mat 25:45-46)
So, yes good works are required, but they don't earn salvation, they do however demonstrate that we love God and our fellow man- which is what the law of God is based on. (Matt 22:36-40)
After we have accepted the free gift of the salvation of God, we will then be judged by our works.
The freemasons have as usual the mixture of good and evil, and have added all their rituals to the word of God.
It is very easy to get confused by those doing good, particularly doing miracles, in the name of God- whichever God they have.
Yet doing miracles, even in Jesus name, don't prove we are righteous, it is doing the will of God that saves us:
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful works? And then I will say to them I never knew you! Depart from Me, those working lawlessness! (Matt 7:21-23)
Lawlessness is not keeping God's laws.