Does the Masonic Lodge teach a person how to get to heaven?
As seen above, Freemasonry claims that it in no way teaches anything repugnant to Christianity. Yet in its ritual and teaching it contradicts the central teaching of all of Christianity: the teaching that we are saved by God’s grace through faith in Jesus, apart from good works (Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 3:21-28; Galatians 2:16). For example, in the ritual for the Entered Apprentice, they regard all nonMason candidates as dwelling in darkness (including Christian candidates). Only those who become Masons are brought to the light. This totally repudiates the teaching of Jesus, the Light of the World (John 1:4-9; 8:12; 12:46), who says that all those who believe in him dwell in light and are the light of the world (Matthew 5:14-16; Eph 5:8; Col 1:12-13; 1 Peter 2:9), and all those who don’t are in darkness. The Masons also explicitly declare that entrance into the life to come is earned by their Masonic good works and purity of life. At the end of the ritual for the raising of Mason to th
