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The Days Of Creation

^{Genesis 2:2-31 [ESV]
2} The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

³ And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. ⁴ And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

⁶ And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." ⁷ And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. ⁸ And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

⁹ And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

¹¹ And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so. ¹² The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

¹⁴ And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so. ¹⁶ And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. ¹⁷ And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens." ²¹ So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." ²³ And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
²⁷ So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." ²⁹ And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. ³⁰ And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so. ³¹ And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day."

Here we have God's account of how He made everything that exists, both on the Earth, and throughout the expanse of the entire universe. Here God is telling us again that He made everything, and He is telling us that He did so in six days.

While a simple reading of these verses from Genesis 1 will tell you in a very straightforward manner that these are six normal days, that is roughly 24 hours in length, what we would consider to be actual days, there has arisen an idea that when the word "day" is used in Genesis 1, it might mean something other than a normal day. The idea is that the Hebrew word for day, just as the English word day, doesn't always mean a normal day. That is true as far as it goes. We can even give examples of this, if I say, "I remember the day my Dad died." I would be referring to one specific normal day. On the other hand, if I say, "I remember back in the day when I was working at Burger King with my future wife and had no idea," in that instance I am referring to a non-specific time frame at some point in the past, but not a normal day. I could also say, "I have to do yard work during the day because it's too dark to do it at night," and in that case, I'm talking about the daylight portion of a day, and not any specific normal day.

To further the example, just to make it clear, day isn't the only word that this happens with, I could say, I left the picnic early and went back home because my back was hurting. Even though I used the word "back" twice in that sentence, we all know that it had two distinctly different meanings. So, as I said before, we understand the fact that the word day doesn't always mean a normal day, but the question isn't, could it mean something else, the question is, does it mean something else?

In order to know when the word day might mean something other than a normal day, we should know when it does mean a normal day. In the old Testament, and indeed in all ancient Hebrew writings as far as I am aware, every time the word day is used with a number, it means a normal day, and every time it appears with the words "morning and evening" it means a normal day. So, it would seem that by using the phrase "there was morning and there was evening, the first day (second day, third day, etc)" God is intent on driving it through our thick skulls that He created in 6 normal days.

What happened to set people off on the wrong course on this issue is very sad indeed. Often we seem led to believe that it was Charles Darwin who came up with the theory of Evolution, but this is not true. Various theories of Evolution had been around for many, many years (maybe even thousands of years) before Darwin came along. Darwin, however, got lucky, where others did not. What Darwin actually did was to popularize one particular version of evolutionary theory (which has been totally debunked by the way) and he lucked out on his timing. You see, while scientists could not really agree on the age of the Earth in that day, none of the ages that were being thrown around were anywhere near long enough to support any of the various evolutionary ideas, and so none of them had been able to gain traction generally. Enter Charles Lyell. Lyell was a geologist who came up with the idea of uniformitarianism, that is, the idea that the Earth was formed by slow geological processes that are still in action today, and by advancing this (deeply flawed) theory Lyell was able to give the Earth an age in the billions of years. If you think about it, you will see that even billions of years would not buy the time needed for Darwin's evolutionary processes to do what they are claimed to have done, but they are long enough so that people are able to accept the idea.

Sadly now, many Christians who are also scientists (and I mean PH D's and such) have bought into Lyell's notion of billions of years, and have decided that while Genesis 1 is true, that God must have meant something different by day than a normal day. So they claim that each day actually represents a long age. Of course, as I understand it, when you go to Hebrew, if the word day is used for multiple lengths of time, in the same passage, and especially if they are sequential, each of them must be speaking of the same length of time. Of course, that would not fit into any of those theories, so they say that the days are not listed in any particular sequence, and must overlap with each other, and sometimes even correspond with each other, and aren't of equal durations. This, of course, removes all meaning from the Genesis 1 creation account, and relegates it to a general statement that God created, which they affirm, while denying the how that is clearly stated.

The fact of the matter is that God did create, and that He has given us an account of how He went about this. For a very nice explanation of the science behind all of this, I would invite anyone who is interested to go to www.answersingenesis.org and read up on whatever particular questions you may have.

While those scientists who want to reinterpret Genesis are still true Christians, and you can be truly redeemed even if you are wrong on this issue, it is still of great importance. You see, if God cannot be trusted in Genesis, then He can't be trusted anywhere else in the Bible either.

To Start At The Begining

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." [ESV]

As I go through this series of posts, and at present I have no idea how long the series will be, I will do something that is all too uncommon these days, I will explain whenever there is a falsification point in Christianity. The falsification principle is that for something to be true, there will be points that, if false, would prove the entire enterprise to be false. A falsification point is one of those places where, if that point were false, then all of what is being proposed based upon it is also false. Saying that Christianity has falsification points is not at all to say that it is false, but rather to say that there are key points upon which it rests, and if those key points were false, then the rest of it would naturally fall apart. I know that this makes some people uncomfortable, but I can't run from it, because it is so important to understand that these key points must be defended. They cannot simply be tossed by the wayside so that we can go on with other portions of Christianity, because if they are not true, then Christianity would also not be true. And isn't that the salient point? I mean, the really big question is this, "Is Christianity true?" That is what I hope to show, because that is was really matters.

What I am saying is that it is not really important, at least not central, how any belief system makes you feel, or what you think it might do for you, or whatever, what really matters is very simply, is it true? Or, what is true? If it turns out that Christianity is indeed true, which it is my contention that it is, then believing what it teaches is absolutely critical, but if it's not true, then there is no point in embracing any of it at all.

It is interesting that we begin the very first day looking at a falsification point in Christianity. Right off the bat, the very first verse in the entire Bible states it very explicitly, "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth." That's the first thing, it goes before everything else. God created. And what did He create? The Heavens and the Earth. That doesn't mean our solar system, or even just our galaxy. At this point it is important to remember that Genesis, like most of the Old Testament (nearly all in fact) was written in Hebrew, and in ancient Hebrew the term "The Heavens and the Earth" is a phrase which means, all that exists. They didn't have a single word for "Universe" like we do today, but that is what this term refers to. This is fleshed out a little in John 1:3 "All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." [ESV] So, all that exists was created by God.

This is a critical fact, if it is true, then we can go forward, but if you reject this, you have no basis to believe anything else that the Bible proclaims.

I'm not going to get into the particulars of Creation today, I just want to point out that it is absolutely critical to the Christian faith. All to often you hear people say that it really doesn't matter if you believe that God created, as long as you believe in Jesus, and while it is certainly possible that someone might never have heard of Creation, or have any understanding of it, but may have had the Gospel explained to them and repented and turned to Christ, without an understanding of Creation, it seems to me that it would be, at best, very difficult for someone to reject that God created, but still embrace Christ. I'm not saying that it's impossible, but it certainly doesn't go naturally together.

Certainly this is not the entirety of my case, but I want to build the argument as I proceed through this series, if at any point I am unclear, or anyone needs more information, or are having trouble understanding what I'm talking about, please leave a comment and I will do my best to answer where I can.

Some Thoughts

Lately I have been spending some time thinking about what might be helpful and useful for me to post on my blog. While it has taken me some time to get my thoughts together, and I have not posted in some time, I do still think that there are some topics that I could cover in such as way as to be helpful to those who might read them. I hope that this is true, and I do intend to start keeping my blog updated better than I have been doing recently, but I guess time will tell.

I hope to spend some time in the near future laying out some of the basics of the Christian faith, in an understandable and unvarnished way. That is to say, I intend to share the true teaching of the Bible and not the human teachings that have crept in over the years, and especially the uniquely American perversions that are so rank in so much Bible teaching today. It is my hope that in so doing I might help some people who think that they have rejected Christianity to see that it is not Christianity that they have rejected, but the perversions that I too would soundly reject. And for those who continue to reject, at least they may more fully understand what it is that they are rejecting.

I pray that God may grant that I might be able to lay things out in a clear and pure manner, and cast off the shackles of human influence that so corrupts the understanding of Biblical truth in the minds of far too many people today.

Taps--John Wayne

Suicide Vs. Martyrdom

Last week we were watching one of those TV dramas, and they had captured a terrorist, and one of the Federal Agents asks the terrorist what the difference is between a suicide bomber and a martyr, and when the terrorist hesitates he tells him that it was a trick question, that there really is no difference because, basically, both are dead in the end.

This got me to thinking, is that really true? Of course the answer is no. I do understand that both are dead in the end, but far from making them the same thing, that is their only point of contact.

What is drastically different between a suicide bomber and a true martyr is the fact that the bomber has chosen to kill him/herself for the purpose of killing other people, while the true martyr is killed by others, through no direct action of their own, for the purpose of faithfulness. That is to say that a suicide bomber chooses death and destruction over life, while the true martyr chooses faithfulness over life. For the suicide bomber there is no choice but death, mayhem and murder, for the true martyr there is no choice but faithfulness, even if it ends up leading to death.

You see, the suicide bomber has chosen to kill themselves, and is trying to kill as many other people at the same time as they can. The true martyr, on the other hand, does not seek death, rather they have chosen faithfulness, and whenever there is a way to both be faithful and live, they will choose that every single time, however, when saving their own life would require that they forsake their faithfulness, they are willing to die, but they do not seek for that death.

Regardless of the propaganda from the radical Muslim circles, or the left wing media types, suicide bombers are not martyrs. Rather, they are killers. Degenerate murderers, and nothing more. There is a nobility in true martyrdom, there is nothing noble in blowing oneself up to murder innocent people.

Amazing Grace

Some time ago I found the Movie "Amazing Grace" for a very good price, and so I bought it, as I had heard some very good things about it, but it ended up taking quite some time to get around to watching it. The other night I remembered that the movie was sitting unopened on the shelf, and so my wife and I put it in and watched it.

I have to say, this was a very good movie. Very moving, and well worth the watching. I don't want to spoil any part of the plot, but I will say that if you haven't seen this movie, you should certainly either rent or buy it as soon as possible. I do not believe you could possibly regret it.

Discernment Part 3 (Conclusion)

The answer then is to know the truth. You must become so familiar with the Truth that you immediately know when you are being exposed to a lie. Any lie.

This is an old illustration that has been used in Sermons for many years, and as it turns out, it’s actually true. Did you know that when Government agents (in the US it’s the Secret Service) are being taught to recognize counterfeit money, they do not study counterfeit money to learn what is wrong with it. Rather, they study, and are taught, all about real money, and how to recognize that, so that when they are presented with counterfeit money, they know it immediately. Recognizing that money is fake becomes easy, not because they know everything about fake money, or how fake money is made, but because they know real money so well that they simply cannot be fooled. That is the key for us regarding truth as well. We do not need to understand everything about false teachings, we simply need to know the Truth.

I’m not saying that it’s wrong to ever know anything about a false teaching, certainly it’s somewhat helpful to know something about the most commonly taught errors. Also, God may call you to minister among a certain group of people (ie. Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Muslims etc.) and knowing what they believe could be helpful in your ministry, but in general, it is knowing the Truth that will make all the difference.

Discernment Part 2

The dangers of buying into false teachings are many and diverse. I can lead to everything from simple misunderstandings, to an unfulfilling Christian life, to false “gospels” which do not lead to Salvation.

So what do we do to keep from falling into these errors? How do we stop ourselves from buying into false teachings? The answer is quite simple.

First, however, let me start with what the answer is not. The answer is not that we must know every false teaching, that would be totally impossible. There are simply too many for us to be able to know them all. You could quite literally study these false teachings morning, noon and night for an entire lifetime and never cover all of them, much less learn all of their weaknesses and why it is that they are wrong. Since the fact of the matter is that anything that is not the Truth of God is a lie, the lies abound to a nearly unimaginable extent.

Discernment Part 1

As I look around me I notice huge problem in our Churches. I see a lot of very passionate people, with good hearts, wanting to do the right thing, and with absolutely no discernment whatsoever.

Discernment is defined as; “Keenness of insight and judgment.” [Discernment. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved April 26, 2010, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/discernment]
Yes, it is critical for us to be discerning, to judge what we hear, and what we are taught, so that we may be sure that what we are holding fast to is the truth of God, and not the unholy musings of fallen men.

Certainly we know that the Pastors and Teachers in our Churches should be on the lookout for such things, but all the more committed to teaching the truth to the people of God so that they will know the truth and not be led astray by false teachers. In Ephesians 4:11-16 Paul says, “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” [ESV]

However, the responsibility does not fall to them alone; we all share together in the responsibility to study God’s Word and to know the truth so that we are not “carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.” There are a few reasons for this. One is that our teachers simply cannot teach us everything, and especially not all at once. That kind of instruction takes time, especially when getting to the real depth of truth that is revealed to us in the Bible. Another reason is that these people are human, and no matter how careful they are, there is still the possibility of error, no matter how hard they try, it is possible for them to teach something wrong. Further, there are some who really have no care for the truth, but are themselves pushing “human cunning” rather than the truth of the Word of God.

This is something that scripture does warn us about (see Jude, 2nd Timothy 2) and instructs us that we must be on guard against such things.

The ESV MacArthur Study Bible

I am very excited to report that I have learned that the MacArthur Study Bible with the text of the English Standard Version [ESV] will be released on August 31st of 2010.

John MacArthur has been the Senior Pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California for over 40 years. He can be heard daily on his radio program, Grace to you (www.gty.org), all over the world. Some years ago now he brought his decades of Bible study, Pastoral Ministry, and all of the books that he has written to The MacArthur Study Bible. Up until now it has been available with the text of the New King James Version or the New American Standard Bible, both of which are excellent. With around 25,000 footnotes explaining virtually every passage of Scripture, The MacArthur Study Bible has been a treasure and a big help to many people.

In 2001 Crossway books introduced the English Standard Version of the Holy Bible. You can read the translation philosophy and some explanation at www.esv.org but in short it is an essentially literal translation of the Bible, highly accurate and trustworthy, yet also readable and accessible to common people.

A couple of years ago (more or less) while listening to the Grace To You radio program I heard John MacArthur say that he was planning to put out the MacArthur Study Bible in ESV, and I was very excited to hear it. Sadly, that was the last I had heard of it until I stumbled across the news on Facebook, of all places, just the other night.

Wonderfully, the excellent text of the English Standard Version is finally meeting up with MacArthur's decades of in depth Bible Study and teaching. This is a must have for all Christians who long to understand the Bible in a deeper way.

Context, Context, Context Part 4 (conclusion)

The fact is that these errors in Bible study are very commonplace, and very damaging. While understanding the Bible in its’ fullness and richness can take quite a bit of time and hard work, but the results of such study are very well worth the effort.

I will leave you with this example of a horrendous false teaching that comes out of committing all three of these errors at one time. Let’s look at Deuteronomy 6:10a&c-11a, which is a favorite (out of context) segment of Preachers of the Health, Wealth, and Prosperity movement and says, “And the Lord God…” will “…give you… great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill…” [ESV] They like to use this to say that God wants to give us all of this today, but they have taken it out of context in all three ways, first, they have picked and chosen snippets out of a much larger passage so that they could twist them to fit their intentions, second, they say them as if they were written to people living today, instead of the Children of Israel who they actually were written to, and they were promises under the old (Mosaic) covenant, and not the new covenant (I know that gets complicated, and I don’t want to delve into it right now). By twisting this all up they ignore the true meaning of the text and claim that if you will just send them some money, then this text (ripped out of context as it is) will become true in your life, which of course, it will not.

It is critical that we take the time to get this right.

Context, Context, Context Part 3

The third context error is in reading things outside of the overall context of the entire Bible. This is most clearly seen in the telling of “Bible stories.” Any of us who grew up in Church and Sunday School, and Church Youth Group and such would be very familiar with this phenomenon. We would well remember all of the flannel graphs (and don’t think I’m attacking flannel graphs, I love them, I miss them… but I digress) and story books, and rote telling of stories. Rarely, if ever, were these “stories” actually read to us out of the Bible, and virtually never was it explained to us how these accounts fit into the overall context of the Scripture. This was especially true of lessons from the Old Testament.

A good example of this is the account of Daniel in the lions’ den, as we commonly know it. We are told this story without ever being told really who Daniel was, why he was in a foreign capital city (if we are even brought to understand that much) or what his life had consisted of. The fact of the matter is that it was quite recently that I even came to understand that this even in the life of Daniel happens toward the end of his life, when he was an old man, in his eighties! This might not seem like a really big deal, but over the course of years of instruction it adds up, and you can easily end up seeing all of the things that you’ve been taught as nothing more that disjointed stories, and you might even come to see them as mythical, and not even real, which becomes a really big problem. But even more than that, it causes a failure to understand the absolutely terrific context of the whole of Scripture.

Context, Context, Context Part 2

The second way in which the context error shows up is in forgetting who a particular book or passage was written to, or what exactly it was written to address. This is very common in the teaching of the New Testament epistles. You have probably even heard it in Sunday sermons, though it is certainly not limited to that, I mention it only to show how pervasive it tends to be. How often do we sit in Church and hear a passage read from one of these letters as if it were written directly to us in the twenty-first century? Certainly it was given, at least in part, for us, but it was not written directly to us, and if we are to understand it correctly, we must first understand who it was written to, that is the cultural context.

A good example of this is to be found in Ephesians 5:18 which states, “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,” [ESV] Again, this is part of a larger portion of Scripture, so it could be used as an example of the first problem, but it also works well to show the second one, so I’m going to use it for that. Clearly this is a true statement and a good rule to follow, and you would not be wrong to say that we can take this as a command to not get drunk, but if that is all that we take away from this, we are missing a lot. Often, we don’t even see the second half of the verse, which says to be filled with the Spirit. This gives us a clue as to what the passage is talking about. While “don’t get drunk” is good instruction, the fact is that Paul is here addressing the fact that Pagan “worship” rituals of that time included getting drunk as a means of communing with the false gods of their false religions, and as many of those in the Church had been saved out of such practices and either were starting to fall back into them, or at least Paul had cause for concern that they might fall back into them, and was here giving instruction to the Christians so that they might avoid such things as they learned to walk with God. Hence he does not command them to simply not get drunk, but wants them to know that if they want to be close to God and commune with Him, they need to be filled with the Holy Spirit. By missing the cultural context of the passage, we miss out on its’ richness and simply walk away with rules that we may, or may not, understand. We may also walk away from some passages with terrible false ideas because we did not take the time to study the text in its’ original meaning. A good thing to remember to help to avoid this error is this; a text cannot mean what it has not meant. That is to say, it still means what it meant when it was written, the only thing that will be different is how it applies to us, since we live in a very different world, but the meaning of it is the same.

Context, Context, Context Part 1

When reading or teaching the Bible, there is an issue that has become very significant in our time. That is the issue of taking the text out of context. Now, I know some people will see that and agree, but mostly are only thinking of one way in which this is done. I intend to show that there are three ways in which this is commonly done.

The first way, which is most familiar to us, is to take a piece of a passage, a single verse, a phrase, or, in extreme examples, even a few words out of the text and teaching them as if they are totally self contained, and unrelated to the surrounding material. It is well known to most serious students of scripture that this can lead to many misunderstandings and even full blown false teachings.

A simple example of this first problem can be seen in the very common usage of Romans 8:28, which is as follows; “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” [ESV] The common usage of this verse actually tends to commit this error twice. First of all, this verse is one very small part of a fairly long teaching passage, although it does contain some truth that is able to be understood even apart from the rest of the passage, however, it is understood in a much more complete and full sense when it is understood in context. The gross error that sometimes tends to arise from the misuse of this verse however, and is very common, is people simply saying that, it’s all good, remember in Romans 8:28, it says that all things work together for good. But the fact is that it really doesn’t simply state that. The verse itself is very clear that the working together of all things for good applies only to “those who love God… those who are called according to his purpose.” That is to say that all things work together for the ultimate good of God’s elect, that is Christians (in the true sense—the Born Again). For any and all who are not Born Again the fact is that absolutely nothing works together for good, because those who die in an unredeemed condition will be cast into eternal hell. This is hardly the definition of things working out for good.

What's Been Up

It has been awhile since I have written a post for this blog. There are reasons for this. First, my drastic shift in focus from politics to matters concerning the Bible and Christianity has made me take a step back. You see, when talking about politics it's OK to just sit down and fire something off regarding the latest happenings in the political world, or hammer off an opinion piece to try to persuade others to your point of view. And if you are wrong, well that's OK, that is what opinion is all about. Not that I endeavored to be wrong, but anyone who is honest understands that the possibility is very real. That does not work when you are talking about Bible topics or issues concerning Christianity. The bar is set much higher. If sharing thoughts on the Bible it is a very big deal to steer people wrong. Therefore I must take more time, which is sometimes hard to come by, and carefully think through issues before I write a blog post about them. Of course this would only explain a slowdown in blogging, not why there has been no new posts in around six weeks. Well, that is also related to the shifted focus. I needed to take some time and examine myself to make sure that I am not being puffed up. I need to be sure that when I write blog posts the purpose is to be helpful to people, and not arrogant or saying, hey look at me, look how smart I am. So it has taken some time to decide if I could go on blogging without having such an attitude.

So, considering all of that, I do believe that I will continue to blog, but the posts may be slower in coming than they have been in the past.

Thank you for bearing with me.