Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) logo: Christian or

Masonic symbol?

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or-masonic-symbol/

I found an interesting article from Pinoy Catholic on the meaning of the Iglesia ni
Cristo (INC) logo:

1.The interlaced square and compass denotes Freemasonry

2.The crown at the center denotes the Order of Amaranth, a fraternal organization
of master masons and their properly qualified female relatives
3.The compass, inverted triangle, and legs denotes the Order of the Eastern Star
4.The light rays at the background denotes the sun god.
5.The scales of justice denotes the Scales of Maat, the Egyptian goddess of truth,
order, balance, and justice
6.The bible inside the inverted triangle and compass refers to the use of the bible
in masonic lodge for swearing oaths
7.The dove and the color white denotes purity and innocence
8.The color red denotes courage, zeal, and blood of life–the color of Royal Arch
Masonry
9.The color green denotes spiritual initiation into the high mysteries of life and
god
10. The color blue recalls the dome of the heavens which denotes universal
brotherhood and friendship
11. The inverted triangle points to the 22nd ray which probably signifies a 22nd
degree mason–Knight of the Royal Axe.
To be fair to INC, I’ll try to provide a biblical meaning to  the INC logo, with their
doctrines in mind:

1.The dove is the dove of Noah.  Just as the evil world was washed away by the
flood and a new world was born, so was the apostate Catholic Church was
abandoned by God and He established a new church, Iglesia ni Cristo, at
the end of time.
2.The sun’s rays and the bible denotes the Prologue of John: “In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He
 was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and
without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life,
and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the
darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (Jn 1:1-5)  Surprisingly,
this passage proves the divinity of Christ, which INC does not believe.
3.The lamb and dove denotes the Baptism of Christ: “Behold, the Lamb of God,
who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man
is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’ I
did not know him, but the reason why I came baptizing with water was that
he might be made known to Israel.” John testified further, saying, “I saw
the Spirit come down like a dove from the sky and remain upon him. I did
not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘On
whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will
baptize with the holy Spirit.’”  Surprisingly, the INC also does not believe
on the divinity of the Holy Spirit.
4.The Triangle denotes the Dogma of the Holy Trinity, which states that there
are three Persons in one God.  Christ himself gave the following Trinitarian
formula for Bapstism: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy
Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” (Mt
28:19-20). Surprisingly, INC does not believe on the Trinity.
Thus, INC uses Christian symbols, but does not believe on the meaning of the
symbols.  (The INC has not still provided an official interpretation of their logo).

Now, where is the Sign of the Cross?  I cannot find any.

1.“Then he called to the man dressed in linen with the writer’s case at his waist,
saying to him: Pass through the city (through Jerusalem) and mark an X on
the foreheads of those who moan and groan over all the abominations that
are practiced within it. To the others I heard him say: Pass through the city
after him and strike! Do not look on them with pity nor show any mercy!
Old men, youths and maidens, women and children–wipe them out! But do
not touch any marked with the X; begin at my sanctuary. So they began
with the men (the elders) who were in front of the temple.” The Hebrew
letter X is Tav (or Taw) whose ancient form is the cross †, from which
came the Greek letter Tau .
2.“If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross
daily 11 and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but
whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.” (Lk 9:23-24)
3.“If anyone says to you then, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do
not believe it. False messiahs and false prophets will arise, and they will
 perform signs and wonders so great as to deceive, if that were possible,
even the elect. Behold, I have told it to you beforehand. So if they say to
you, ‘He is in the desert,’ do not go out there; if they say, ‘He is in the inner
rooms,’ do not believe it. For just as lightning comes from the east and is
seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. Wherever
the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. “Immediately after the
tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not
give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the
heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear
in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the
Son of Man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he will send out his angels 18 with a trumpet blast, and they will
gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the
other.” (Mt 24:23-31)  The sign of the Son of Man is the cross because
his corpse hung there.
4.“For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with the
wisdom of human eloquence, so that the cross of Christ might not be
emptied of its meaning. The message of the cross is foolishness to those
who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For
it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the learning of the
learned I will set aside.” Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe?
Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the
world foolish? For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to
know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness
of the proclamation to save those who have faith. For Jews demand signs
and Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a
stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are
called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of
God.” (1 Cor 1:17-24)
So why is there no Sign of the Cross in the INC logo?  Is INC inviting the wrath of
God to destroy its members starting from its temples?  Does INC wish to follow
Christ but without a cross in its temples to carry?  Does INC await the coming of
Christ but thinks that the Sign of the Son of Man is not the cross but a compass? 
Does INC wish to proclaim the cross of Christ like St. Paul or rather the message
of Felix Y. Manalo, whom they consider as an angel?  As St. Paul said: “But
there are some who are disturbing you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach (to you) a gospel other
than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed! As we have
said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the
one that you received, let that one be accursed!” (Gal 1:7-9). Lucifer is also an
angel of light because in Latin, the word “Lucifer” means “Light-Bringer” (from
lux, lucis, “light”, and ferre, “to bear, bring”). Lucifer is he whom the Freemasons
worship.  As Christ said: “And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the
darkness be.” (Mt 6:23)