Did You Know…….A point for your own thought here --- whom did Jesus first appear to after he was resurrected. It was his beloved Mary Magdalene. Would Jesus have appeared firstly to a woman if they were so unimportant as many mainline churches constantly infer.

As for Mary Magdalene being a reformed prostitute, what profound pathetic piffle this fabrication is. In some of the old dialects the word for prostitute and priestess is one and the same. (There is a good reason for that but that is another story). The translator thinking they were doing the right thing transcribed this word as prostitute, thinking there are no such thing as women priests therefore it must be prostitute. This was not so, for there WERE women priests in the original Christian Church. It was the Patriarchal Misogynistic Popes, Bishops and other church elders who were totally responsible for getting rid of women clergy and there is ample proof of this in spite of the constant denial of the Vatican and other church hierarchies. Some of this proof is inlaid in tile throughout the very old European Churches and cannot be destroyed without wrecking the heritage listed buildings. This is quite irksome to the church fathers, but even they dare not desecrate these buildings. The next best thing is that they were covered up by tapestries, and a Papal bull issued that these tapestries must not be removed as they are consecrated and sacred. In spite of this there are those who ignored the papal order, climbed up and peeped behind them. Inlaid in mosaic tiles are pictures of women bishops and they are named, and bold statement to their gender is also written in tile. When these old churches were built, do you really think the Church elders of the day would sanction any builder to desecrate their new church by the installation of any untrue fanciful imaginary event such as this? I hardly think so.
Written by the Presiding Archbishop of The Australian Church of Antioch, The Most Reverend Frank Bugge. © Frank Bugge 2012. Blessings & Happy Reading.

You see so many nasty and hateful things posted on facebook. So much lately about killing and taking up arms against people, shoot first or be shot type of thing. A picture of a gun in the hand of Jesus. What are people coming to and why so much hatred. I just don't get it. I am not as Religiously educated as many of the Clergy on facebook, I am a bit different and a bit "out there", and sometimes I ruffle feathers with what I have to say and what I believe in. But I tell you all this in no uncertainty. I would rather hold out my hand to my brother man than to yell death fire and damnation to all who do not believe what I believe or those who are perhaps on the wrong road or path. How do you think you can change things if you show just as much hatred and nastiness as those who you condemn! You just create a circle by doing this, it just keeps going around and around, and somewhere it needs to stop. Be one of those people who try to stop this and not keep it going. Over the last few weeks I have learnt that I am glad I am different. I am glad I think and feel the way I do. I am glad I am not filled with the hatred that some others seem to be filled with. I am glad I am me. Instead of all the bullshit, why don't you go and find someone who is in need and go offer them your friendship or your hand instead of inciting more hatred. This is what we should really be about. Helping our fellow man. I am not referring to clergy here, just everyone. Each and everyone of us must know someone who is troubled in some way. What better way to spread the word of God than to behave as he would like us to behave and I don't believe for one moment that it is with hatred and condemnation and non acceptance of others no matter what the differences. Like I said I am so very glad I am me.
Blessings All.

BIBLE FACTS
Over the years we see that the Bible has been translated several times into many languages and this is a commendable task. There are however the many distortions that have crept in sometimes accidentally, sometimes the translator doing his/her best and settling for what they thought was right, and lastly the heinous offence of deliberately twisting this magnificent book of life for reasons of power gain. When I say Bible, read that in many cases this also applies to the Koran, and many other religious texts. While I write mainly for the Christian tradition, I here quote my main teacher, my mentor and friend Archbishop Herman Adrian Spruit in saying “Christians do NOT have a monopoly on this information.”

THE ORIGINAL BIBLE IS PERFECTLY ACCURATE IN EVERY DETAIL, LEAVE US NEVER DOUBT OR FORGET THIS UNCHANGEABLE FACT.

We see that God created the world in six days and He rested on the seventh. When the texts were translated from the original there was a word that could not be explained satisfactorily. God created the world in six days of ???Brahma???. As the translators could not understand what the word meant, it was so simple to just omit it. This omission gave a completely different meaning to the text. If one goes to the ancient Hindu texts they will inform you that a day of Brahma is in Earth terms 8,640,000,000,000 years. What a different picture this presents us with. Instead of 24 hours we deal now with enormous lengths of time, more in tune with the scientists’ estimation of things. With this new knowledge, if we now compare this to the result of the scientist’s estimation of the age of the universe, they will find they are within spitting distance of each other. This means that science with its big bang theory and the theory of creation now align, almost perfectly with each other. Remember the Scientists estimated the age, and I think they did this rather well considering all things, but the Bible gives us closer and more accurate timing while upholding the scientific view, as indeed the scientific view now also upholds the Bible.
Written by the Presiding Archbishop of The Australian Church of Antioch, The Most Reverend Frank Bugge. © Frank Bugge 2012

Did you know that Jesus was a pagan? He and his family, John the Baptist, many of the disciples were all Essenes. That information is well recorded, but what is not well known is that the Essenes were simply Jews who were Druids, and the Church has hidden this fact for centuries to claim "sole ownership" of Jesus. Jesus was actually respected in the Judean, and Hannifi traditions (hannifi being the esoteric school tradition from which Mohammed came). Mention of the prophet Mohammed being an outcast Christian Cardinal is erroneous, but Mohammed was a Qatan in the Hannifi which is the same rank as cardinal in Christian circles. Islam as taught by Mohammed was compatible with Christianity and they certainly were NOT at loggerheads with each other, until human intervention into the teachings of both sides was provided over periods of time.
Written by the Presiding Archbishop of The Australian Church of Antioch, The Most Reverend Frank Bugge.
Blessings and Happy Reading.