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Freemasonry: Behind closed doors
In “Why I Left Freemasonry”, American Great Awakening preacher, Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1895), explains first-hand the dangers : “Judging from unquestionable evidences, how can we fail to pronounce Freemasonry an unchristian institution? We can see that its morality is unchristian. Its oath-bound secrecy is unchristian. The administration and taking of its oaths are unchristian and a violation of the positive command of Christ. And Masonic oaths pledge its members to some of the most unlawful and unchristian things:”
v To conceal each other's crimes. v To deliver each other from difficulty, whether right or wrong. v To unduly favour Masonry in political action and in business matters. v Its members are sworn to retaliate and persecute unto death the violators of Masonic obligations. v Freemasonry knows no mercy, and swears its candidates to avenge violations of Masonic obligations unto death. v Its oaths are profane, taking the Name of God in vain. v The penalties of these oaths are barbarous, even savage. v Its teachings are false and profane. v Its designs are partial and selfish. v Its ceremonies are a mixture of puerility and profanity. v Its religion is false. v It professes to save men on other conditions than those revealed in the Gospels.
v It is wholly an enormous falsehood. v It is a swindle, obtaining money from its members under false pretences. v It refuses all examinations, and veils itself under a mantle of oath-bound secrecy. v It is a virtual conspiracy against both Church and State. Article Link: "The Pope, the Devil, and the Masonic Lodge"
"I do not see how any Christian, most of all a Christian minister, can go
into these lodges with unbelievers. They say they can have more influence for good, but I say they can have more influence
for good by staying out of them and then reproving their evil deeds. You can never reform anything by unequally yoking yourself
with ungodly men. True reformers separate themselves from the world. But, some say to me, if you talk that way you will drive
all the members of secret societies out of your meetings and out of your churches. But what if I did? Better men will take
their places. Give them the truth anyway and if they would rather leave their churches than their lodges, the sooner they
get out of the churches the better. I would rather have ten members who are separated from the world than a thousand such
members. Come out from the lodge. Better one with God than a thousand without Him. We must walk with God and if only one or
two go with us, it is all right. Do not let down the standard to suit men who love their secret lodges or have some darling
sin they will not give up." Alex Jones discusses freemasonry
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