Slog Bog

ithink wrote:If we trace the lineage in Genesis 4, the descendants of Cain—particularly Lamech, Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-Cain—represent the rise of civilization: herding, music, metallurgy, and possibly warfare. These were the first builders, the first to organize tools and social structures. Many esoteric systems (including Masonry) revere Tubal-Cain as a symbolic "father of craft." But there's a deep irony in glorifying a lineage that’s explicitly marked as outside the favor of God - spiritually and symbolically east of Eden.

This misappropriation, then, becomes a core deception. Instead of returning to the Father, these systems worship the works of men: building, hiding, swearing oaths, protecting “secrets.” It's a poor substitute for the open, liberating truth found in Christ's teachings, which needed neither temples nor secrecy, and certainly no penalties for sharing what was freely given.

My assessment is that Freemasonry is a counterfeit, a mimicry of divine mystery used to control rather than liberate. Anyone with an understanding of history and a modicum of scriptural discernment will arrive at this same conclusion. Sadly though, the gullible LDS forever fooled and cannot identify when secret oaths and “eternal consequences” are being used as tools of manipulation rather than paths to truth.

You will not get closer to the Father by joining the masons, and in fact, I can tell you as one who has seen the other side, until you divorce yourself from it, you will never see his face.

Steve Barwick wrote:Have you ever wondered why, in Revelation 17:5, Babylon is called “Mystery, Babylon”?

You already know that the word “Babylon” means “confusion.” But what does the word “mystery” mean? Here’s what the Strong’s Concordance tells us:

G3466 Musterion — From a derivative of muo (to shut the mouth); a secret or “mystery” (through the idea of silence imposed by initiation into religious rites) — mystery.