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Today I received A Study of Freemasonry in the mail. This is a 70+-page paper from the mid-1990’s from the Southern Baptist Convention’s Interfaith Witness Department. It is mentioned several places online but not available for download. I emailed the SBC asking about this and they sent me a copy. I think this was probably the BEST evaluation and read I have seen from a mainline Protestant Christian denomination. In the following weeks, I will scan this document and make a word document. Below I am going to post the final paragraph on page 71 of the report.
From A Study of Freemasonry:
The Home Mission Board Interfaith Witness Department staff agree with Charleston Southern Baptist, who, in 1798, advised that the matter of Southern Baptist membership in Freemasonry “be left with the judgment of the individual”. They agree with George W. Truett who said, “The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God, is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown-rights of the Son of God.”
It is refreshing to see a denomination put to paper that it believes its members intelligent enough to make decisions for themselves.
From A Study of Freemasonry:
The Home Mission Board Interfaith Witness Department staff agree with Charleston Southern Baptist, who, in 1798, advised that the matter of Southern Baptist membership in Freemasonry “be left with the judgment of the individual”. They agree with George W. Truett who said, “The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God, is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown-rights of the Son of God.”
It is refreshing to see a denomination put to paper that it believes its members intelligent enough to make decisions for themselves.