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Masons believe that there is one God and that people employ many different ways to seek, and to express what they know of God. Masonry primarily uses the appellation, “Grand Architect of the Universe,” and other non-sectarian titles, to address the Deity.

Ask your fellow Muslim member of Allah is the same as Jehovah.

If he is honest you will quickly discover the two are not the same.

There is only one God...and that is the God revealed in the Bible.

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“.....the God revealed in the Bible.”

And that depends on which Bible you use of which you were taught from.

Listed below are the most common English versions of the Bible used throughout the world.

King James Version (KJV)
New International Version (NIV)
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
New King James Version (NKJV)
English Standard Version (ESV)
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
New Century Version (NCV)
What is The Voice translation of the Bible?
New English Bible (NEB)
American Standard Version (ASV)
Good News Bible (GNB) / Today’s English Version (TEV)
Amplified Bible (AMP)
Today’s New International Version (TNIV)
New English Translation (NET)
Lexham English Bible (LEB)?
Revised Standard Version (RSV)
Contemporary English Version (CEV)
God’s Word Translation (GW)
Common English Bible (CEB)
What is the Recovery Version of the Bible?
New International Readers Version (NIrV)
Easy-To-Read Version (ERV)
Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
Bible in Basic English (BBE)
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
What is the Modern King James Version (MKJV)?
What is the Modern English Version (MEV)?
World English Bible (WEB)
Revised English Bible (REB)
Jerusalem Bible (JB)
New American Bible (NAB)
The Living Bible (TLB)
The Message (MSG)
Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
Wycliffe Bible
Tyndale Bible
Coverdale Bible
Matthew Bible
Great Bible
The Bishops’ Bible
Douay-Rheims Version (DRV)
What is the Luther Bible?
Geneva Bible

These are just the English Bibles. The Muslims have the Koran, Hindus have the Vedas, Buddists have the Tripitaka (Pali Canon), Mahayana Sutras and the Tibetan Book of the Dead are their three major noncanonical Buddhist texts. The Jewish have the Tanakh and Judaism is the tenth largest religion in the world. The list of religions in the world is endless. And probably most all have a written text of some type to assist them in their practice. So to say any one religion is right and others are all wrong is questioning what God, anyone’s, has provided. And all over the world each lodge has the book on the alter, or books, that most represents the religion of the Brothers of the lodge.

Masonry does not questionGod. We accept any religion into the craft that is recognized as a religion. And in my Grand Lodge’s jurisdiction, we are all children of God and any bible can be on our alter. In one of the lodges I profess to, we have 4 Bibles on the alter that someone in the lodge practices. And to not create a problem, the only need of the lodge is that the lodge prays to God, and not Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, or any representative of their particular religion.

Masonry is always looking for good men. A Good Man is not necessarily a Godly Man, but a Godly Man is absolutely a Good Man. And we don’t care where his religion comes from, we accept his faith because we have faith in him also. And we don’t force Brothers to profess one religion. We offer them the opportunity to profess where God sends them.

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