who knew George Washington and John Wayne were such evil men???
Posted on 06/19/2015 3:56:05 PM PDT by ebb tide
Gaotu. Curious... Is Jesus Christ the way, the truth and the life? No one will come to the Father except through Jesus Christ?
One major problem with Freemasonry is that in stopping at a generic “god figure,” even if in the case of most Americans that is God The Father, the Divinity and Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ are denied by gross omission.
There is no generic God the Father.
However, we are a fraternity that recognizes other faiths.
Our prequisite is: You must believe in a higher power and and afterlife.
Obviously, Muslims believe in a different god, as do Jehovas Witness.
But mostly, you will find Christians in Masonry.
Praying to the same God, revering the same God as Christians.
We have no secret God, as ther is only creator and giver of life.
We celebrate God the Father, The Holy Spirit and Christ.
How else could we live? (Rhetorical)
Jesus Christ is the “Only” way, The Truth and Life....(unless you are a Mormon, then you must pass by Joseph Smith, with a passport before entering and obviously we, as Christians, reject that notion)
Albert Pike was a liar...Period...
Which does nothing to acknowledge the Divinity and Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ. That's why stuff like this recent encyclical with its two prayers (one for Catholics, one for others), is called Masonic. Some people dismiss such as kooky conspiracy theories, but the truth is that even if Freemason persons aren't explicitly involved, the troubling material is undeniably Masonic in nature -- generic, not focused on Jesus, and seeking fraternity with false religions.
Their God the Creator is the same as the Triune God. They just don't understand that.
What’s wrong with asking non-Christians to convert to the One, True Faith, and praying for them to do so, rather than preparing prayers for them to pray in their false religions?
This pope doesn’t give a hoot about saving souls; he’s more interested in saving seals and snails.
Like I said, “We” are a fraternity.
Think of it like any college fraternity or maybe a police fraternity. They worship the same God we all do for the most part. However, there are people of different faiths in those fraternities.
The fraternity is not a religion but, may open and close meetings asking for God’s blessing, guidance, strength, etc.
There really is no difference except we have rites and rituals, all of which are steeped in Biblical history and the humanities.
For a good example you might look at the following, which I only gave a cursory look and hope it is helpful:
http://www.masoniclibrary.org.au/research/list-lectures/106-the-importance-of-the-second-degree.html
And as a result, Francis publishes separate prayers for his adoring crowd to pray. Gotta please everyone all the time, except for those sour-pussed, rosary counting, Pelagians.
Did Jesus Christ teach an alternative prayer to the Pater Noster to appease the Jews?
They just don't understand that.
And Francis just doesn't understand "extra Ecclesiam nulla salus". Apparently you don't either.
Let, therefore, the separated children draw nigh to the Apostolic See, set up in the City which Peter and Paul, the Princes of the Apostles, consecrated by their blood; to that See, We repeat, which is "the root and womb whence the Church of God springs,"[27] not with the intention and the hope that "the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth"[28] will cast aside the integrity of the faith and tolerate their errors, but, on the contrary, that they themselves submit to its teaching and government. Would that it were Our happy lot to do that which so many of Our predecessors could not, to embrace with fatherly affection those children, whose unhappy separation from Us We now bewail. Would that God our Savior, "Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth,"[29] would hear us when We humbly beg that He would deign to recall all who stray to the unity of the Church! In this most important undertaking We ask and wish that others should ask the prayers of Blessed Mary the Virgin, Mother of divine grace, victorious over all heresies and Help of Christians, that She may implore for Us the speedy coming of the much hoped-for day, when all men shall hear the voice of Her divine Son, and shall be "careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace."[30] MORTALIUM ANIMOS
Sure! There's two prayers, not one.
The Sign of the Cross does. Ever heard of it? Ever made it?
So? Do you believe in two gods? If not, why separate prayers?
who knew George Washington and John Wayne were such evil men???
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