"Jim Bennie" <jg.stopspam.bennie@vcn.bc.ca> wrote in message 
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"Aaron" <anon@home.net> wrote in message 
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The local lodge rents to a church on Sundays, that does not make the
congregation Masonic.  It seems fairly simple.

By the "logic" employed by these people, if some of the congregation were 
stamp collectors, then stamp collecting would be responsible for all the 
"bad" things they did.

Jim, Vancouver

Listen you idiot without a telephone!

Stamp collectors do not use guns as a part of stamp collecting.

Stamp collectors do not have blood oath when they start to collect stamps.

Stamp collectors do not hide what they are doing.

Stamp collectors did not steal hieroglips from Ancient Egypt to invent own 
"history".

Stamp collectors do not claim that they build pyramids.

Stamp collectors do not infiltrate judiciary and police to channel their 
work.


FREEMASONS DO ALL LISTED ABOVE AND MORE.

Your comparison of masons and stamp collectors is not funny but example of 
idiocy.

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To the members of Masonic Lodge number ___________

Greetings in the Name of Jesus Christ,

When I was initiated into Freemasonry, I was led to believe that my
involvement would not interfere with my duty to God. I was led through three
blood oaths in the three degrees of the Blue Lodge which are in direct
violation of the commandment of Jesus Christ found in Matthew chapter 5
verses 33 through 37.

I have since come to realize that Freemasonry is a "Fraternal Order" which
has a plan of salvation. The Masonic plan of salvation does not require
faith in Jesus Christ, but rather depends on imitating Hiram Abiff. At many
places, Masonic ritual encourages Masons to believe that they will go to
heaven. Consider the Covering of a Lodge: it is "a clouded canopy or
star-decked heaven where all good Masons hope at last to arrive." Consider
the Three Steps ". . .as Master Masons, we may enjoy the happy reflections
consequent on a well-spent life, and die in the hope of a glorious
immortality. " Consider the prayer just before Hiram is raised: "Yet, O
Lord! have compassion on the children of Thy creation; and administer them
comfort in time of trouble, and save them with an everlasting salvation."

With all of this, Freemasonry is encouraging Master Masons to believe that
they will go to heaven when they die. But just who are Master Masons? They
include Hindus, Moslems, Buddhists and men of many other religions which
reject the claims of Jesus. Freemasonry is encouraging false hope in unsaved
men. Just after Hiram is raised, ritual tells us that we should imitate
Hiram Abiff so that we can welcome death and get into heaven.

The Bible is clear. John 14:6 contains the words of Jesus. He said "I am the
way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the father but by me."

It is obvious that Freemasonry is not following the teachings of Jesus,
because ritual encourages lost souls that they will get into heaven. Ritual
suggests imitation of Hiram Abiff as the way to the Celestial Lodge above.
The book of 2 John verse 9 states: "Whosoever transgresseth,and abideth not
in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God." When coupled with the fact that
Masonic ritual teaches salvation on the basis of imitating Hiram Abiff,
rather than Faith in Jesus Christ, it is clear from this verse that the
Masonic Lodge does not have God. The GAOTU cannot be the God of the Bible,
because it rejects the claims of His Son.

I know that many of you profess to be Christians. I would like to meet with
each of you to examine and pray about the contents of Masonic ritual. As
Christians, can we take part in an organization which teaches salvation
without Jesus? Galatians 1:8-9 makes it clear that the penalty for teaching
a false plan of salvation is condemnation. I encourage you to prayerfully
consider these things.

The oaths which I took are null and void. God has released me from them.
Leviticus chapter 5 verses 4-6 make it clear that when something is hidden
from a man and he takes an oath thoughtlessly, he is guilty of sin. When he
recognizes it as sin, he may be released from it by confessing it as sin and
claiming the promise found in 1 John Chapter 1 verses 8-9.

I want you to know that I am not rejecting you as individuals, however I am
totally rejecting Freemasonry. I want nothing more to do with it, now, or at
any time in the future. I do not want a demit. I am no longer a Mason.

I encourage each of you to get out of the Lodge. I pray that my involvement
in Freemasonry will not result in the loss of anyone's soul because he
believed the promises in ritual. The Masonic plan of salvation is a ticket
to hell. I encourage each of you to read the Book of John in your Masonic
Bible. Read it again and again, until you know the truth.

Signed by ____________________ on ___ Day of _________ A.D. 20__

(Z`�.� + In hoc signo vinces + �.��Z)

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