Did not research information from either Wired magazine nor “Q” items. Enough on the blood sacrifices that are endemic around and in this fallen world.
From your own FR page, you believe that God is in you, or that you are or can become your own god.
Either way, you need to repent and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Creator, the Word, and the only way to God.
John 14:6
Becoming a Freemason will not get one to Heaven, as we are all sinners and worthy of Hell.
So you are either a Freemason yourself, or a fellowtraveler. It is at a minimum a works-based religion, and if you follow and believe it, you will end up in hell.
Please avoid hell. Repent, and ask for the merits of the Blood of Jesus Christ to be applied to you and all your sin.
Thanks for your kind concern, dear.
I already have a religion, and have found it more than adequate.
Indeed, the simplest way to express the gospel (the greatest good news, the euangellion) is with a simple two-word sentence, entrusted by the Messiah to His chosen ambassadors to proclaim, consisting of a person (noun) and that person's activity (verb in the present ongoing tense):
(Jn. 5:24. 6:39; promises to the condemned-to-death human)
My Friends, as I skimmed through the text of Post #29 by SunkenCiv, it certainly appeared from his witness that:
-- this interviewee William Schnobelen, convicted by the Spirit, had a permanent change of mind (metanoia),Going forward, the truly mature Christian would set aside all false doctrine and return to the life of a New Testament disciple as commanded by Christ on the shore of Galilee, just before His Ascension, devoid of:
-- a turning to Christ that rejected all of his past misadventures,
-- affirming his unreserved desire to receive the promised gift of everlasting life
-- on account of being fully persuaded of Jesus' existence
-- and His ransoming work alone
-- that has already satisfied the Righteous demand placed on Willam by the Mighty Judge,
-- by which William was thus judiciosly declared "Not Guilty,"
-- by it received the never-to-be rescinded pardon from sinful thoughts and actions forever,
-- was adopted by and imputed with the righteousness of the Only Begotten Son of The Father,
-- becoming then a citizen of the Kingdom of God,
-- and from that moment began his walk on the path of progressive sanctification;
-- to wit, from the condition of being a new-born babe-in-Christ, moving thence toward spiritual maturity,
-- studying out the task of earning God's approval that was not available before pardoning and spiritual birth,
but now in the Spirit's counsel rightly dividing the Word of Truth,
-- and discerning both good and evil according to the doctrine of and fellowship of the original apostles which they have documented;
-- as well as breaking bread in remembrance of Christ's Cross-death,
-- and praying as moved by The Spirit,
-- giving thanks always according to God's will in Christ concerning His disciples.
-- authority outside the local established assembly other than the Christ, its HeadSo much for the state of William Schnobelen and others like him that have gotten involved in anything beyond the simplicity and spiritual discernment that is in Christ.
-- any division of the body of constituents into a Nicolaitan class of heirarchical priests ruling a class of "lay people"
-- any Mariolatry
-- any thinking of sprcial revelation beyond that given to Beloved John afterthe recording of the Apocalypseto him-- thinking that the canon of Scripture is not wholly sufficient to guide the churches and the conduct of their congregations
-- thinking that once once you have been given slvation and life in the spirit, that it is up to you to keep it (which is just another twist on having to earn your way to heaven, Arminianism).
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The distinctives of a New Testament Scripture-authorized local assembly to which the spirii-born child of God is expected to participate are as follows:
o Bible, the inspired Scripture, is the sole authority over the local assembly and its constituents
o Autonomy of the local assembly, reporting only to its Head, the Lord Jesus Christ
o Priesthood of each and every Spirit-born confessor of servanthood to The Christ
o Two immutable commands for the assembly: (1)induction of the believer professing allegiance by the visible rite of water immersion signifying being dead to sin and alive in Christ; and (2) the breaking of bread symbolic of the substitutionary death od Christ and shedding of His sin-cleansing blood
o Individual soul liberty for which the individual is responsible
o Salvation by faith alone is the self-professed standing of the individual desiring induction into the membership of a local church
o Two offices in the accountability of the local church polity which are (1) the overseer (bishop/elder/pastor) amd deacon (servant in the administration of the operations of the local church)
0 Separation of the local church as a whole from any affiliation with or obesience to the civil government of the state
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