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What is a Christian
A Christian is a person who identifies himself with the one true Jehovah God, through a personal relationship with His Son, Jesus Christ.
A Christian is one who accepts only the Holy Scriptures as the complete, inerrant, inspired God breathed infallible revelation of who the Christ is and What He and He alone has done to purchase for Himself a bride (the church).
The word of God alone is the Christians final and absolute authority for the conduct and governing of his life and that of his family.
A Christian acknowledges that God's holy writ is his only rule of faith and obedience
A Christian believes in the Godhead, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and he believes the three are one.
A Christian loves the law of God he once hated.
A Christian believes all things are of Christ, by Christ and for Christ.
A Christian will exalt Christ and none other.
A Christian not only embraces the truth of God's word but has a hungry heart to please God, worship God and praise him for the salvation he has provided through the blood of his son, Jesus Christ.
A Christian yields himself to the lordship and will of God for his life.
A Christian is one who by the power of the Holy Spirit has become a new creature in Christ (II Corinthians 5:17), old things have passed away, all things have become new.
- A Christian is one who knows that neither tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or peril, or sword, death nor life, nor angels or principalities, nor powers, nor things to come, nor height, nor any created thing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
A Christian also knows that apart from Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this life or the life to come
A Christian believes as all roads at one time led to Rome, only a personal relationship with Jesus Christ leads to heaven, all other roads, belief systems and religions lead to eternal hell and damnation.
A Christian believes that just as God is his father, so Satan is the father of all those who have not trusted Christ Jesus as Savior and Lord.
A Christian also believes in the depths of his heart that all of the above is only possible by the miraculous power and elective grace of God.
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From http://web.archive.org/web/20030416193247/home.earthlink.net/~jackjoy777/symbols.html
Masonic Symbols And
Their Meanings
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The All Seeing Eye
The All Seeing Eye, whom the sun, moon and stars obey and under whose watchful eye even comets perform their stupendous revolutions, pervade the inmost recesses of the human heart and will reward us according to our merits.....
What Masonry fails to tell the candidate is that the rewards for merits done in the flesh apart from the person and work of Jesus Christ are worthless and fruitless and the God of the bible does not regard them (Isaiah 64:6), because they do not give glory to Jesus Christ and His gospel message. |
Again, Masonry attempts to bypass the truth of God's word,
and instead give credence to the arch deceiver of the souls of men.
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The Egyptian Mythlogically Teaching
of Resurrection...
In Egyptian Mythology resurrection was taught, but only according to the pagan beliefs of the Egyptians. The Hiram Abiff legend in the third degree is taken from this and other pagan sources to teach life after death.
Never is a true biblical explanation given, always pagan belief systems,
so as to not offend the man who is from another religion.
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Lambskin or White leather Apron
Given to the candidate in the first degree and must be worn during all lodge
meetings and must be worn at all funeral services.
It teaches a Mason that as this Apron is pure so is he as long as he wears it as a badge of a Mason and it represents the purity of his life and conduct which the Mason is told will get him into heaven.
Ephesians 2: 8-9 tells us that only by grace are we saved and that works will not save us. Again Masonry attempts to discredit the person and work of Jesus Christ.
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THE 24 INCH GUAGE AND THE
COMMON GAVEL
These are the working tools of the first degree.
The common gavel is an instrument made use of by operative Masons to break off the corners of rough stones.....etc.....Masons use them for divesting our hearts and consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life, thereby fitting our minds as living stones for that spiritual building.....etc.....
Here again Masonry is side stepping the person and work of Jesus Christ and leaves
it up to the Mason to bring his sin nature under control and get to heaven.
How Satanic!
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THE THREE STEPS
These three step represents the three stages of life; youth, manhood and age.
In youth they say Masons should obtain knowledge.
In manhood they apply that knowledge.
In age they die in the hope of a glorious immortality.
What A Lie
(along with all of their other symbolic meanings.)
There will be no glorious immortality for the Mason who puts his faith and trust in the lies of Freemasonry. Apart from the saving grace of God, which can only be found in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
There is no hope, now or in the life to come.
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THE CLOUDED CANOPY AND THE
STARRY DECKED HEAVEN
The clouded canopy and the starry decked heaven where all good Masons hope at last to arrive, by aid of the theological ladder, which Jacob in his vision saw extending from earth to heaven; the three principal rounds of which are Faith, Hope and Charity.
They admonish the Mason to have faith in God, hope in immortality and charity to all mankind.
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There is no faith in God unless your faith is in the God of the bible. Masonry's god is not the God of the bible. Their faith is grounded in the pagan deities of the various pagan religions of the world. There hope in immortality, will be a immortality spent in hell for all those Masons who believe the ungodly untruths told to them in the lodge room. Immortality is spent either in heaven or hell.
The Masonic hope of immortality is not based on the Word of God,
therefore it leaves a false hope for all Masons.
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THE SWORD POINTING TO THE BOOK OF CONSTITUTIONS.
The book of constitutions guarded by the Tyler's sword reminds the Mason that he should be ever watchful and guarded in his words and actions, particularly when before the enemies of Masonry.
The only enemy of Masonry I know of is Jesus Christ and his followers and those
holding to the truth found only in Jesus Christ (John 14:6).
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THE POT OF INCENSE
The pot of incense is an emblem of a pure heart which is
always an acceptable sacrifice to the Deity.
- Romans 3:10-18 speaks of the total depravity of mankind, and that includes all Masons. The Bible states that the heart is desperately wicked. A pure heart comes only after a person is born again by the spirit of God and becomes a new creation in Christ Jesus (II Corinthians 5:17)
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THE ANCHOR AND THE ARK
The anchor and the ark are emblems of a well grounded hope and a well spent life. They are emblematical of that divine ark which will take the Mason to heaven.
There is no well grounded hope apart from the saving grace of Jesus Christ and no life is well spent that does not give glory to the God of the bible, Jesus Christ, Son of God and only Savior of the souls of men.
Again, Masonry mocks the person and work of Jesus Christ by
its ungodly and unbiblical statements.
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THE HOUR GLASS AND SCYTHE
The hour glass is an emblem of human life and the scythe is an emblem
of time which launches us into eternity.
The candidate is given a full explanation of each but never is he pointed to the gospel or the person of Jesus Christ. He is left with a paganistic explanation of life and death and the candidate is reminded of the Legend of Hiram Abiff with it's ungodly meanings.
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THE SQUARE AND COMPASS
The square and compass is resting on top of the open bible in the first three degrees of Freemasonry. The square the Mason is told is to remind him to square his actions and the compass to circumscribe his desires and to keep his passions in due bounds.
The letter G in the center stands for the deity of any religion in the
world. Surprise!!! Surprise!! And as a Mason you believed it was
the God of the bible. . . . . Far from it.
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From http://web.archive.org/web/20030416125907/home.earthlink.net/~jackjoy777/rituals.html
Rituals
From The First Three Degrees Of Freemasonry
AT THE DOOR: (Exact ritual as given to the candidate in the first degree).
Who comes here?
Mr. .........., a poor blind candidate who desires to brought from darkness to light, and receive a part of the rights and benefits of this right worshipful lodge, erected to God and dedicated to the holy Saints John, as many brothers and fellows have done before me.
Mr. .........., is it of your own free will and accord you make this request?
It is.
Is he duly and truly prepared, worthy and well qualified?
He is.
By what further right does he expect to gain admission?
By that of being a man, freeborn, of good report and well recommended.
Being all this you will wait a time of patience, until the Worshipful Master is informed of his request and his answer returned.
Candidate At The Door
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* What have Masonic Writers written about this portion of ritual?--Albert G. Mackey
There he stands without our portals, on the threshold of his new
Masonic life, in darkness, helplessness and ignorance. Having been
wandering amid the errors and covered over with the pollutions of
the outer and profane world, he comes inquiringly to our door,
seeking the new birth, and asking a withdrawal of the vail which
conceals divine truth from his uninitiated sight.
Masonic Ritualist, p22-23Also found in Ahiman Rezon - Monitor of South Carolina, 1946 - p61
Candidate at the Door
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* What have Masonic Writers written about this portion of ritual?--Allen E. Roberts
You have entered a new world. Symbolically and spiritually you
have been reborn. This started the moment you were prepared to
become a Mason... The lodge becomes a symbol of the new world
to which you have been reborn... You learn that your entrance is not
a mere opening of a door. It is accomplished by forms, ceremonies,
actions and words designed to impress upon you mind wise and
serious truths. You know that this is not a frivolous event, but one
of spiritual impressiveness.
The Craft and Its symbols, p3, 14-15
Candidate at the Door
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* What does the Bible say?Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again.
John 3:7Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the
world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but
shall have the light of life.
John 8:12
Candidate at the Door
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Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the
dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Ephesians 5:14But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth
us from all sin.
1 John 1:7
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