Are the Freemasons Christian?

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The Freemasons are a secret society, though they prefer to be known as the largest fraternity in the world.

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A local gathering is called a Masonic Lodge. With secret handshakes and rituals and high -profile members, the

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Masons have been the subject of many conspiracy theories. Freemasonry began as a guild of stone masons and somehow went from stone cutters to strange cult.

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Their emblem is a compass and square, often with a G in the middle, said to stand for Geometry or God, but most likely it's for the

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Great Architect of the Universe, their universalist name for God. To be a Mason, one must believe in a

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Supreme Being, and some lodges require belief in the Christian God. But this is not a Christian fraternity.

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Masons want members to ignore the exclusivity of Jesus as Lord and Savior. You can go to heaven by good works, but Ephesians 2 .8

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and 9 says we are saved by grace through faith and not our works. The Masons do not regard the

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Bible as the only inerrant word of God. It's just one of several volumes of sacred text, a moral guidebook equal to the

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Quran or Rig Veda. Masons do not regard man as sinful, just imperfect, able to improve himself through acts of charity and civic duty.

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Anyone is capable of achieving moral perfection. All of this is Antichrist. Jesus said,

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I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one gets to the Father but by me. And 1

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John 2 .22 says, Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the

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Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. A Christian cannot pledge with the