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Monday, November 8, 2010

Clarification to the Offended

I want to make something clear, I know often in my rants, that many individuals who may run across what I write here, seem to think it is personal attack, against them.
Nothing of what I ever write is to condemn others, or to judge them, only God is judge, I like the prophets of old am compelled to speak only against their practices, beliefs or teachings that oppose the Who is God, and Who is the Son.
What we believe doesn't change that Christ came to die for all of us and that we all needed that, but it is His life - the message we must understand as well. It must be applied in every area of our lives.
However, history proves that people will kill to defend their beliefs, doctrines, or practices and thus the world rages now. The message cannot be applied but by His grace in our lives, but we must first approach God the Father through the Son always in prayer, not by doctrine or our "Orthodoxy or Orthopraxy."

Religion, Politics, Foreign Policy, Criminal Justice you name it, has it's roots in the sinfulness of men.
Systems are not pure, as the early Christians so better understood.
They may have used the term Devil or Satan but they had a definition outside of what later developed within the context of church. They didn't believe in the Devil, as an entity in competition with God, a second god. They were not dualist. They understood that "Adversary" was all that opposed God's love and mercy, and that individuals, groups, governments and the world are the "Satan".
They never perceived of Him as the church does or we have been taught to do. The Satan is not some weird little pointed ear, long tail, horned and red in color individual that was a "fallen angel" that is in some great cosmic game of chess with God using mankind as the playing pieces.
This teaching so widely accepted with all religions which are pagan, even our "christian paganism," are false and do more to excuse all people from personal sin, then anything else. It has done more to produce the very opposite of what God's revealed love in Jesus was to produce within His people.

All of the "adversaries" of God that I have not completely listed above are the "Satan" they are merely a reflection of the entire human condition of sin and death in this world.
Just as we are, and can be, when we fail to receive God's grace in our lives. We become and are the "Satan" - the adversaries of our Creator.
There is much more that could be said here on the dualism teachings of the church, and the gnostic origins of the church for what is taught but that's for another book perhaps. There have been some very good books written on this matter as well, by men who are thinking men, who have opened their eyes and ears to Jesus Christ, and not Jewish myths, traditions of men, and all the things Paul warned the body of Christ of, time after time. and John and Peter as well.

I love people of all races, because Jesus didn't die for the Caucasian race only as some would have us believe. He lived and died for all men regardless of race, color, creed or religion.
We all needed Him. We all still do.
What I stand against if you have read my writings enough is the total disregard, we, Christians, have for all people, just because of their race, color, creed or religion, and don't see ourselves in light of the living Word of God, that all men are in the same condition, and all institutions are in the same condition, all governments are in the same condition and all religion is in the same condition.
We are without redemption from our evil, ourselves, our violence, our hatred, our selfishness, without Christ being the centrality of our life. Not the Jesus that has so wrongly been portrayed to the world, but the Jesus of the Gospels.
We have far too long focused on doctrinal matters (and most often, been wrong) and not enough on living matters.
God loves the hater as well as the hated, the evil doer as well as those who oppose evil, but without Him, Jesus Christ coming to us, changing us, by seeing the life he lived, the death he died, and what resurrection and Pentecost really mean, we are hopelessly lost in our hatred, and our being a victim of it. We are lost in our doing of evil, and our being a victim of evil.
It is the love of God, that has been shed abroad in our hearts that Christ body needs and the world at large.
Far too long traditional Christianity has defined the atonement in terms that are falsely Judicial rather than Christ the Victor terms. 
God's mission to bring Justice, was in the person of Jesus Christ while He was here both in the life he lived, and the death he died.
Biblically to "bring justice" does not mean to bring punishment,
but to bring healing and reconciliation.
Justice means to make things right. All through the Prophets justice is associated with
caring for others, as something that is not in conflict with mercy, but rather an expression
of it. Biblically, justice is God's saving action at work for all that are oppressed:
"Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the
fatherless, plead the case of the widow". (Isaiah 1:17)"This is what the LORD says:
"`Administer justice every morning; rescue from the hand of his oppressor the one who
has been robbed" (Jeremiah 21:12)
True justice can only come though mercy
"This is what the LORD Almighty says: `Administer true justice: show mercy and
compassion to one another. (Zechariah 7:9) "Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice".( Isaiah 30:18)
--From Penal Substitution versus Christus Victor Atonement-
"The Rebel God" a blog linked on this page.

I believe sincerely anything outside of the action of love, self sacrificing love, in the exemplary way that Christ lived and died, is not Christian. We can turn the Holy Bible into something more unholy so often by all the traditions of men, then hearing the Word of God and seeing the Living Word. We like to shake our fist at the Muslim and their Quoran. When we treat the Truth of the Word of God, and especially the story, the One we trust in, in disregard of the Story, we have reduced our "Holy Bible" to nothing more then that we accuse the Muslim of having - "a book of violence that propagates it."
Wrong, all religion propagates violence, even ours if we treat the Story- Jesus, as a book, defined and dissected by us, into a few choice verses, to justify our own sin. Then it becomes as unholy, as any book claimed to be God's truth, when it is in contradiction to all Jesus lived and died for. This is what the serpent did in the Garden, he was the first Theologian, a simple animal, became man's first great Theologian. The first to WRONGLY divide God's Word.
When we as men, turn to concepts of man's justice, man's hatred for others, man's pride, man's powering over others, man's solution as war to the problems of the world, we have negated Christ in His teaching, His life, and His death. How dare we call ourselves "Christian."
So what I do is stand against all that makes us less then what we are too be or claim to be in Christ, this includes, false teachings, practices, and living. I stand against those things which say, powering over others, rather than submitting to others, is the way we win.
No we win, when we see the REAL JESUS, and we turn to the love He showed, practiced and gave right down to the Cross.  The reasons most Christians don't live this life, is because of false teaching, and listening to evil more than the Holy Spirit and story of God's love to us who deserved none but Christ won the victory for all of us, the victim and the victimizer.
He redeemed us not so we can say, now I can live like the world, think like the world and do like the world and go to heaven. No! He redeemed us, that we redeem others, in this life, by allowing His life to be lived in us, through us and as us. So, that in all that we do and say, it is the same love expressed through Him by the Father to us, that we by the Holy Spirit express that life to others.
His entire story, the message we miss is found in who God is. We have too long tried to define God in every whim of doctrine rather then answering the simple declaration of the Word of God.
God is love!

Thus I oppose war, and power structures, that leave men powering over others.
I believe as Jesus lived and taught, it is in powering under, that we gain real power, It is when we get down and wash each others feet, and the feet of our community, our State, Our Nation and the World, is where real power comes from, resurrection power.
It is when we lay down our lives in love to all men, that we have lived in obedience to the Spirit of Christ and not the spirit of this World (this is the Satan).
So, when I attack a teaching or practice it is to redeem God's people from the sinful thinking that it brings in their lives, and in the end when acted out, it destroys them and all those around them.  Jesus turned over the tables in righteous anger against those taking advantage of the poor, the widowed and the orphan, I get angry and rant... Jesus loved the table tenders, He hated their belief system that had translated the "house of prayer" into a market system.He may have flogged them, but he didn't go get a AK-47 or any kind of sword that physically kills or maims, if any killing was done, it wasn't people that He killed, He killed their "adversarial actions and beliefs about the Father". He chastised those He loved the Temple market place people. We twist that, and say, well in the New Testament Jesus did get angry, so war and hatred is justified.
Yes, He did get angry, righteously angry and He is still angry at our total disregard of our love for Him first, and then our neighbor. He is still flogging us, as a person, a nation, and world. Not to destroy us but to save us, and make His people not the Temple, His house of prayer.
So, don't become personally offended, but do if necessary.
Become offended enough to re-evaluate your actions and belief system in light of no longer proof texting everything you do believe, this is the worst thing that we can do to God's Word, we have come to think to "rightly" divide the Word, is to divide it up into one or two verses, that will appease our sinful nature, make a doctrine out of it, form a group around it, and hate all those who oppose it.
God's "RIGHTLY" dividing is the opposite of our dividing, rather than division it creates unity among those who believe the story. It will always divide when we "search the scriptures thinking we might find life in them, when they speak of Him."
The Bible is not one million verses on how to keep from going to hell, it is the story of God's love to and for His creation. He doesn't want to deliver us from some future "tormenting fires". He wants  to get us out of the hell all men are in right now, in the here and now. This is only accomplished by trust placed in the story of His love expressed through the first human to ever be the full expression of who He is- Jesus Christ- the Second Adam. Our trust is in Him, because of the unity of the story, not it's divisions created by men. This is the worst thing men ever did, at first was to divide it up into chapters, verses, paragraphs, sentences, words, etc. The Christian church has used that division of the story far too long, and miss the entire context from Genesis to Revelation.
God is love.
In light of everything Jesus was, did and is. He is the full expression of the Father. He is love.
Jesus didn't come to formulate a new religion but to deliver us from religion to a life of love for the Father first, and then to our neighbor. 

Then we will find common ground as Believers when we trust the subject of the story and it will be "God is love."

Doctor J.

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Mars the god of War Is Now Jesus

In history one can find the beginnings of the mythological god named Mars. This god has not died, he persist even today as the true god of those who though in name claim they are Christian, but in deed and in word, they worship Mars the great god of war.
I quote from an excellent analysis of war from a book entitled, " A Terrible Love of War, by James Hillman. Hillman's analysis is true in so many areas, even though he is a psychologist and former Director of Studies at the Carl Jung Institute in Zurich.
It is clear in biblical truth that he is not a true Christian, but in the reality of what most of those believe and do in deed and word he is "christian", as he explains. Western theology, the way of life and all, most individuals who are in this country lay claim to being christian. Matter of fact, 80% of America claims to be Christian from polls done.
Though in truth I know and anybody who has a true comprehension of Jesus' life, the life of the Apostles, and the martyrs, that until Constantine- the church was founded by the Prince of Peace, but from that point on the god Mars has become our god, superimposed upon Jesus, the Prince of Peace, he is now the War God. These are they that are not biblical Christians, they are what Western idealism has made them, hypocrites! They still since the time of Constantine hold fast the doctrines of a pagan god Mars as their new Jesus.

Western Christianity's god comes front and center when war is in the air. War brings it's god to life. In World War 2, this god was a co-pilot on bombing runs, as one book title declared, and a popular song turned a chaplain into a "helluva gunner". In World War 1, "Clergymen dressed Jesus in Khaki and had him firing machine guns". The bishop of London exhorted his Christian fellows to "kill the good as well as the bad...kill the young men as well as the old...kill those who have shown kindness to our wounded as well as those fiends..."

Let me quote from a prayer in his book which so typifies the prayers of the Babylonian church (Kirke) today. These have become the prayers of the faithful - those Christian Nationalist and Pro- Zionist just before battle.

O Lord Our God,
help us
to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells;
help us
to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriotic dead;
help us
to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded writhing in pain;
help us
to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire;

Ah! war has such a sweet sound to the faithful, herein is their chance to prove their god Mars overall is god of all gods. To put this in place they declare this when by mere defeat of an enemy through bloodshed and violence, that American truth and American Christianity is the only truth and that we shall rule the world whether you like it or not.

To ask the question: here is what James Hillman ask, and I do the same.

"The retreat to love leaves untouched the important question that each of us as Christians must pose: why is Christianity, which entered the world as a religion of love and has distinguished itself from other world religions by the message of love in it's founder and it's apostles and exemplified in its martyrs and saints, also so martial (lovers of war)?
Its notion of love has not coverted the god of war, and in fact the Christian culture has inspired the greatest long lasting war machine of any culture anywhere. Does this not demand from our educated Christian minds a sharper examination of Christian love?

I still marvel how those who prefer the New Covenant of grace and forgiveness for themselves offer none to others. What surprise they will have on Judgement Day by the Supreme Judge, who shall look at them, and say " I knew you not".

Until then Americans will continue with their pagan god Mars re-created into the image of the former Prince of Peace to now be called their great King of War and their "justified wars" so that the great "City of God' the United States and Israel may continue in their hypocrisy of the lie they live in, and live with.
How perverted the Gospel of Jesus has become, what shirking there shall be in shame when the Prince returns.
How Americans love their god of war Mars, and until the real Jesus stands up, and shouts no more, there will be wars and rumor of wars, until He comes.

As for me and my household, we are going to serve the living Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace and true love. Who said emphatically in word and deed, "Love thy enemy".

If love is pointing guns at another and blowing his head off, then I will choose the opposite of this definition of love. I will choose true love, that looks down from a cross and says "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do".

The hardest words ever spoke by anyone that could only come from our Father who forgives those who forgives others.
How we have forgotten the truth of Christianity and bought into the babylonian baloney, the church of Constantine and his warriors, proclaiming visions of conquering under this sign, the cross. The cross symbolizes everything in Christianity of a submissive Savior but we in America have turned the cross as Constantine did, into a sword.
God have mercy on us, for we have bought the greatest lie of Satan ever, that we are superior over all others, and we are the soldiers of Jesus with our WMD's and our biowarfare and our super bombers, and our future weapons, we have come to believe conversion means to beat the pagan over the head until he bleeds, as the wounds bleed profusely and splatter blood onto our Bibles, and then we can shout, " I have made a new convert". Ah! When in truth we will be doing just what Jesus reprimanded the Pharisees for, making a more of a child of the devil, then they were in the first place.
This lie has continued since the times of Constantine and can be studied by any and all in church history. Why because the church of America, is not the EKKLESIA, called out ones of Christ, but a mix bag of Judeo- altered truths, jewish myths, satanic lies, american ideas of patriotism, manifest destiny and a false gospel of purintee.. BUNK!

Come out of her!

She has perverted the truth of Christ into a mythological god named MARS!

The god of War.

I am sickened by knowing the truth. It makes my stomach turn when I hear others who claim to know Jesus, while loving war and supporting it, and proclaiming it holy.

I Thessalonians 2:13-16

4 For ye, brethren, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus:for ye also suffered the same things of your own countrymen, even as they did of the Jews; 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always:but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

Paul knew what to expect and it is here!

2 Timothy 4:3-4
1 I charge thee in the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto (fables).


or (myths) some translations say-
the mythological god of Mars - the war god is the myth they have turned to.

So, I hear the Word and act on the Word.

Titus 1:10-14
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. 12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. 13 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. 15 To the pure all things are pure:but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 16 They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

So here ye, here ye, ministers of unrighteousness, I reprove you sharply, so that you may become sound in the faith. Less, you are truly Satan who has appeared even as an angel of light.
Satan does have his ministers as well. War and the love of war are from the dredges of his bottomless pit. It was Satan who authored the first real war, when he rebelled against God, and the first human followed soon afterward with the murder of Abel.
I invite you to know the REAL JESUS - PRINCE OF PEACE, who said "my Kingdom is not of this world".

Dr. J.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

George Washington - A Christian?

There is an argument that has continued especially in recent days with the movement of the right wing moralist, Christian Nationalist, that George Washington was a Christian and not a Dietist. Dr. Kenendy of Coral Ridge Ministries argues for this stand profusely in his attempt to make us all believe that America is suppose to be a Theocracy ruled by God and therefore all American does and is, we are a country founded by God. I take issue with Dr. Kennedy who looks past the best of evidence that George Washington was not a Christian but a Free Mason.

Now it may be true, he spoke of Christianity, he spoke of God, he spoke of the Bible, he even was a busy churchman.
In NO way does this ever prove he was Christian. Why can I say this with such assertiveness, Simply, because a man goes to church, uses the name of God, and talks in Christian terms, never defines a Christian. Let's look at some facts contrary to Dr. Kennedy- being a churchman, would put anyone that goes to church as a Christian, the facts are George was a Free Mason.
Look at these matters:

Many legends circulate about the masonic activities of George Washington. Below is a list of documentable masonic occurrences within the lifetime of George Washington. Indeed, some lore about the various lodges that he may have visited are surely true, but without written contemporary proof, do not appear in this list. In addition to these masonic lodges, ceremonies and celebrations, at least fourteen letters survive written by Washington to various masonic lodges and grand lodges expressing his esteem for the fraternity. He owned at least two masonic aprons, three masonic constitutions and a masonic jewel, as seen in his estate papers at the time of his death in 1799. The facts can be researched and proven true, if one takes the time to look them up.

For example from George Washingtons Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens - Answers comes the following:

Do you have a record of his membership in Freemasonry?
The answer is:
George Washington became a Freemason in 1753, when he was accepted at Lodge Number 4 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Just 21 years old at the time, he remained a Mason until his death in 1799, when he was laid to rest following both Episcopal and Masonic funeral rites. While Mount Vernon has a few pieces of Masonic memorabilia, we do not have correspondence other documentation dealing with his membership in that organization. We suggest you contact the Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia. Email: gseghers@gwmemorial.org. Phone: 703-683-2007. Web site: www.gwmemorial.org.

So I did just that via the Internet. Here is the timetable presented.

1752 November 4
Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, Initiated as Entered Apprentice

1753 March 3
Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, Passed to Fellow Craft

August 4
Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, Raised to Master Mason

1778 December 28
St. John the Evangelist celebration, marched in masonic procession

1779 June 24
St. John the Baptist celebration, marked with American Union Military Lodge at West Point, NY.

December 20
Proposed by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania as General Grand Master of the United States, however never enacted.

December 27
St. John the Evangelist celebration, celebrated with American Union Military Lodge at Morristown, NJ

1781 October
Reportedly visited Lodge No. 9 at Yorktown, VA with General Lafayette after defeat of British General Cornwallis

1782
Brothers Watson and Cassoul of Nantes, France, present Washington with exquisite silk masonic apron, acknowledged by letter August 10

June 24
St. John the Baptist celebration, marked with American Union Military Lodge at West Point, NY.

December 27
St. John the Evangelist celebration, marked with Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, Poughkeepsie, NY

1784 June 24
St. John the Baptist celebration, marked with Alexandria Lodge, Alexandria, VA

June 24
Made and honorary member of Alexandria Lodge No. 39 (Now Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22) Alexandria, VA

August
Presented a masonic apron made by Madame de Lafayette by General and Bro. de Lafayette

1785 February 12
Walked in masonic funeral procession for Bro. William Ramsay at Alexandria, VA

1788 April 28
Named charter Worshipful Master of Alexandria Lodge No. 22 when a new charter from the Grand Lodge of Virginia was issued. Unanimously reelected Master December 20, 1788 for one year.

1789
Elected honorary member of Holland Lodge No. 8, New York, NY

April 30
Inaugurated President of the United States using Bible from St. John’s Lodge No. 1, New York, NY

1791 April 15
Welcomed by members of St. John’s Lodge No. 2, New Bern, NC

May
Received the greetings of the Grand Lodge of South Carolina by General Mordecai Gist, Grand Master, Charleston, SC

1793 September 18
Acting Grand Master, laid the cornerstone for the United States Capitol, Washington, DC

1794 Sat for William Williams, portraitist, in Masonic regalia at the request of Alexandria Lodge

1797 March 28
Received a masonic delegation from Alexandria Lodge

1798 April 1
Attended Alexandria Lodge No. 22, and proposed a toast at the banquet that followed.

1799 December 18
Buried at Mt. Vernon with masonic rites as well as those of the church, conducted by Alexandria Lodge No. 22
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If any body should know a Mason it would be another Mason, these records are drawn from their records and Washingtons estate records.

Now it would seem that Dr. Kennedy and the so called presuppositional research of those trying to prove George was a Christian they manage to throw truth out with the bathwater. It is easy for a man to be misunderstood as to what he believes simply because he or she uses Christian terms, attends a church or other is involved in so called Christian activities..
This is proved through many cults, and understanding how important semantics become in defining what they really believe..
One, must look behind what is said and how it is defined.
Free Masons have infiltrated American churches for centuries.
When I was in Bible school I had a Bible teacher who was not only a Baptist ordained minister he was a 32nd degree Mason. I understood Free Masonry because I had read everything I could get my hands on them from the time I was 15 years of age. I had found Albert Pike's book "Morals and Dogma in an old abandoned home alongside a creek we played in where I lived in Richardson, Texas. I was fascinated with all it's mysterious philosphy, and dogma and more and it's initiations and steps to reach each degree.
I later picked up some additional books on Free Masons, written by them, and came to realize by age 20, what they had was truly a cult, anti-Christian, and that they believed in Lucifer as a good and works salvation. So, when this teacher would speak things that I found were very religous, but not scriptural, I would challenge him. He hated the challenges because he could never give a consistent answer from scripture. He had all the venacular and speech you would think a Christian had, he even had a church he pastored as a Southern Baptist.
Along with my coming to understand their teachings and dogma, my best friend and his friend when I was young were DeMolay members. I had talked with him, and knew a lot about what went on in the meetings for the youth. I was well informed, and I knew in my heart of heart, that all the references to God, Jesus Christ, and salvation, etc. was as evil and cultic as anything I had come across.
They were not Orthodox and surely not defined by scripture.
George Washington was a Deitist/Church Goer and a Free Mason.
He was not Christian because it is impossible for the two to be compatible in doctrine or faith.
Regardless, how hard the Dr. Kennedy's of this world, who pride themselves in wearing their Doctorate garb with it's stripes on the sleeve while spewing garbage out of their mouth. telling lies, is telling lies.
Let's look at some other facts.
On September 18, 1793, the cornerstone of the Capitol was officially laid. The Grand Lodge of Maryland presided over the ceremony and George was asked to serve as Master. The affiliated Lodges under Maryland's jurisdiction were in attendance, as was his own Lodge from Alexandria. There was a great procession, which included a company of artillery. Then came a band, followed by himself, attended by all officers and members of the Lodges in full Masonic regalia.
When George reached the trench in which the northeast cornerstone was laid, he was presented with a silver plate commemorating the event and inscribed with the designations of the Lodges in attendance. The artillery fired a volley. He then descended into the trench and placed the plate on the stone. Around it was placed containers of corn, wine and oil. All present joined in prayer, and the artillery fired another volley.
All of this was part to Free Masonry dedication of buildings.

On August 4, 1753, George Washington became a Master Mason, the highest rank in the Fraternity of Freemasonry, in his hometown of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The 21-year-old young man would soon hold his first military commission.

For George Washington, joining the masons was a rite of passage and an expression of civic responsibility. Members were required to express their belief in a Supreme Being and in the immortality of the soul. Masons were also expected to obey the civil law, hold a high moral standard, and practice acts of charity.

36 years after he became a 3rd degree Mason, on April 30, 1789, George was inaugurated as the first President of the United States with John Adams as Vice-President. The oath that George took was administered by the Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New York. Both the Marshal of the day and his escort were generals in the United States Army and Masons. The Bible on which he swore his oath was that of St John's Lodge of New York. George, himself, was Master of the Lodge at Alexandria, Virginia.
Six years and three months later, in December, 1799, George Washington died. He was buried at his home at Mount Vernon, with full Masonic honors, by the Alexandria Lodge, whose members were his pallbearers.
There is no question that Masonry contributed something to the structures and machinery of the American government. The Constitution of the United States, in a very real sense, is a Masonic document. In its final form, the Constitution represented the collective thoughts of Ben Franklin, Edmund Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and George Washington. Of these, all but Jefferson were not only active Masons, but men who took their Freemasonry extremely seriously.
Now, many ministers and their congregation both Anglican and Episcopalian during these times subscribed to both Deism and Christianity . George may have had some Christian views that were in contrast to Deism in that he thought "Providence" did intervene in history whereas most Deist do not. This in no way changes the facts, that he was a Free Mason, and with all that I can proclaim- to subscribe to Free Mason teachings one CANNOT be a Christian.
There are many Free Mason that are serious churchmen. Attending the man made temples, and listening to men who like to stand in the market places with their phalacteries and long flowing robes, and gain the attention of all.They especially enjoy this as the sole speaker for a church group. This doesn't make one a Christian. Regardless of what you believe - George may have had some "good" ideas, and some "christian ideas" but in so doing and in no way states that he was "born again " of the Spirit of God and a man abiding in Christ.
It amazes me to the extent that "Christian Nationalist" will go to try to take truth and twist it for their agenda to eventually establish their ideas of a theocracy for all of us, and how quick they are to return this country to rule by the Old Testament shadows, for their sake of definition of what Christianity is, which is nothing more than Judaism with Talmudic law, and Free Mason concepts. They have commited idolatry and adulterous whoredom mixing Christ with national political ideas. To say that any nation is Christian that is on this earth at this present time. While the sin and autrocites of American life continue.
Dr. Kennedy needs to take his robe off, no one with his supposed credentials should ever be considered a Doctor of Divinity or Ministry when he would deny the truth and stretch it to his benefit and his ideals that this nation was founded by God.
All nations will be judged by God including Israel and the United States of America.
Kennedy is still very fascinated with the kingdoms of this world. and should have his mind on heavenly things rather than trying to lift things up of this earth to his ideas of heaven on earth.
Dr. Kennedy needs a new focus - the Kingdom of God! The Kingdom of God is not America or Israel or any other nation on this earth.
In summary, I will tell you once again, it is impossible for Free Masonry and Christianity to ever be compatible - they are in direct contradiction to one another.
I wonder if Dr. Kennedy might have a Masonic ring on his finger or at least a few Masonic contributors to his ministry?
I challenge him to stay with the truth, preach the truth and flee the falsehoods he so wants to convince America of.
It is this kind of twisting of history that every totalitarian regime has exercised, to accomplish their task to brainwash the general public and be blind to truth.
Galatians 5:7-9
You were doing so well! Who made you stop obeying the truth? How did he persuade you? It was not done by God, who calls you. "It takes only a little yeast to make the whole batch of dough rise," as they say.
2 Timothy 4:3-5
The time will come when people will not listen to sound doctrine, but will follow their own desires and will collect for themselves more and more teachers who will tell them what they are itching to hear. They will turn away from listening to the truth and give their attention to legends. But you must keep control of yourself in all circumstances; endure suffering, do the work of a preacher of the Good News, and perform your whole duty as a servant of God.
Dr. J.