Are Baptists Protestants? (Part Two) "The Mason Connection"

The Baptist's claim that they are not and never were Protestants may become moot as one wonders whether or not their evolution toward Paganism will in the future even merit the term "Christian Body". How is it that Baptist Pastors, Deacons and Laymen defend with all their might that the Baptist Church is the Original New Testament Church, and yet Baptists make up over 37% of the Masonic membership in the United States? Why do 14% of the SBC Pastors and 18% of the SBC Deacons, worship at the altar of a pagan God as Masons and why are they unequally yoked with other religions who make up the Masonic brotherhood and why do they find fellowship in a pagan Masonic Temple? Something is amiss. Could it be that the autonomy of which Baptists are so proud, is actually a result of the rebellion born of the Reformation and has opened wide the door to deception? The Orthodox Church, which is the historically verifiable unbroken Church of the Apostles, does not allow membership in a secret society, especially the Masons. To their credit, many Baptist writers and theologians recognize the nature of the Masonic order as a false religion with oaths, creeds, temples, and secret initiations dating back to the Pagan Babylonian Religions. Though it be cloaked in good deeds, the Masonic order is a type of the biblical wolf in sheep's clothing. It is a lion roaming to and fro seeking whom it may devour. My challenge to Baptists who claim to be the one, true, church of the Apostles, is to go to your own Baptist Bookstore, now called Lifeway, and pick up a good book on the Masonic order. You will find it in the "cult" section. If you are the true church, there is a cancer among you. Every individual Baptist who practices the Masonic Religion should renounce any association with it. Should they refused to do so, they should be driven out from among you, especially the Pastors and Deacons who do "feed the flock".

Notes on The Masonic Order by former Mason Charles Finney

Masonic Oaths Procured by Fraud

"I found that in taking these oaths I had been grossly deceived and imposed upon. I had been led to suppose that there were some very important secrets to be communicated to me; but in this I found myself entirely disappointed. Indeed I came to the deliberate conclusion that my oaths had been procured by fraud and misrepresentations; that the institution was in no respect what I had been informed it was; and as I have had the means of examining it more thoroughly, it has become more and more irresistibly plain to me that Masonry is highly dangerous to the State, and in every way injurious to the Church of Christ."

Features of an Anti-Christ
"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:

1. To conceal each other's crimes.
2. To deliver each other from difficulty, whether right or wrong.
3. To unduly favor Masonry in political action and in business matters.
4. Its members are sworn to retaliate and persecute unto death the violators of Masonic obligations.
5. Freemasonry knows no mercy, and swears its candidates to avenge violations of Masonic obligations unto death.
6. Its oaths are profane, taking the Name of God in vain.
7. The penalties of these oaths are barbarous, even savage.
8. Its teachings are false and profane.
9. Its designs are partial and selfish.
10. Its ceremonies are a mixture of puerility and profanity.
11. Its religion is false.
12. It professes to save men on other conditions than those revealed in the Gospel of Christ.
13. It is wholly an enormous falsehood.
14. It is a swindle, obtaining money from its members under false pretenses.
15. It refuses all examinations, and veils itself under a mantle of oath-bound secrecy.
16. It is virtual conspiracy against both Church and State."

Don’t think the Masonic Lodge is a church? Read this:

From the
Entered Apprentice Degree of Freemasonry

“The word Lodge is analogous to that of church, referring not so much to the place of meeting as to the persons assembled. A lodge may therefore at this time be defined as a certain number of Free and Accepted Masons, duly assembled, furnished with the Holy Bible, the Square and the Compasses, together with a Charter, or Dispensation, from one Grand Body of competent jurisdiction empowering it to work.”

Based on this ceremonial Masonic Oath, the Lodge is a church which uses the Bible with the Square and Compass and a Charter or Dispensation. It is the Charter and Dispensation that should give every Baptist pause. By whose dispensation do you worship and take oaths? By whose charter do you order your life? Even the seemingly reverential kissing of the Holy Scriptures is done through the Masonic Square and Compass that is lain on top.

I challenge you to research further the truth of what I say. The site below is the best that I have found that lays bare the this pagan society's secrets. Baptists, until you have removed yourself from paganism and removed the paganism from your midst, your claim to be the original church in faith and doctrine will fall on deaf ears.

Finally, lest you are too angered by my diatribe, know that I am a fourth generation Southern Baptist who found out only a few years ago that my own highly respected Baptist Pastor Grandfather was a 33rd Degree Mason. I have earned the right to speak frankly on this matter.


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