I have a copy of Morals and Dogma, and have read it.
What do you find disturbing about it.
I won’t put you down but, rather, honestly discuss
Though I can’t think of what would be problematic
Lemme know
If you have read Morals and Dogma, and warning bells did not go off, there’s probably no use talking with you.
First, it claims to be deceptively intaking it’s initiates, until they reach the higher levels of freemasons (hoodwinking is more than just acted out in the royal arch)
“Part of the symbols are displayed there to the initiate, but he is intentionally mislead by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them, but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. Their true explication is reserved for the Adepts, the princes of Masonry...It is well enough for the mass of those called Masons, to imagine that all is contained in the Blue Degrees; and whoso attempts to undeceive them will labor in vain...” (Morals and Dogma, p. 819
So, the whole of Freemasonry is based on DECEPTION.
It claims to be a religion.
“Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion.” (Morals and Dogma, p. 213).
Freemasonry claims secret knowledge (a Gnostic heresy) and contain ALL truth. (Freemasonry is not a secret society, it is a society with secrets = Gnosticism).
For example, the “Secret” name of God. Such secrets are the textbook definition of Gnosticism.
It claims to be the complete truth (The only complete truth is Jesus).
“It is the province of Masonry to teach all truth—not moral truth alone, but political and philosophical, and even religious truth...” (Morals and Dogma, p. 148).
But here’s the truth about gnostic teachings.
1 Timothy 6:20-21
O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.
Freemasonry claims to be the way (and ONLY way) to eternal life
“Let him who toils complain not, nor feel humiliated! Let him look up, and see his fellow-workmen there, in God’s Eternity; they alone surviving there.” (Morals and Dogma, p. 343).
There are oaths Masons take, but what does the Holy Bible say about that?
Matthew 5:34-37
But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.
Instead a Master Mason takes this oath “All this I most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, …binding myself under no less penalty than that of having my body severed in two, my bowels torn from thence and burned to ashes, and these scattered before the four winds of heaven, that no more remembrance might be had among men or Masons of so vile a wretch as I should be, should I, in the least, knowingly or wittingly violate or transgress this my Master Mason obligation. So help me God and keep me steadfast.”
The Holy Bible is NOT FURNITURE.
Do not be deceived. Sola Scriptura.