Are you saying Freemasonry is just an offshoot of Christianity,as you understand it?
Or started in Christianity, at least in England re: the Church there?
Not trying to trick you or pin you down,btw..
He is not saying Masonry is an offshoot of Christianity.
The tenets of Freemasonry should reinforce whatever faith you ascribe to...but, it is not a religion...
“Are you saying Freemasonry is just an offshoot of Christianity,as you understand it?
Or started in Christianity, at least in England re: the Church there?”
Neither. It started as an offshoot of medieval trade guilds - actual stonemasons - who began to admit non-stoneworkers when the great building period of cathedrals and castles wound down. They adapted actual stoneworking tools to teach moral and allegorical lessons instead of actual use for stone. The earliest known reference to “Freemasonry” is from the late 1200s in the Regus manuscript. In 1717, four already-existing lodges met in London to form a supervisory structure over themselves.