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Why bother writing this blog?

After all, I'm an undergraduate mathematics student, and I'll mostly be writing on stuff I'm thinking about as I read the Bible.  I'm not expecting much readership.  Let's be realistic here!

There are really two main reasons for the blog:

1)To help sharpen my own thinking.  I used to write emails to a group of friends on Christian topics, and I found that ideas which seemed perfectly well-formed when they were just safely in my head were made far clearer (and often corrected, as I rechecked my references!) when I came to try and actually write them.  Hopefully this blog will be just as helpful to me.

2)To be of benefit to those who read it.  I guess there will be one or two guys who do subscribe - probably old friends!  And if the occasional blog with a bit of Bible truth in it turns up and is useful to them: job done!  And if you're not a Christian and you're reading this - welcome.  Please feel free to read as much as you like, and to comment in whatever way you want.

The only thing left to say is that my posts here will almost certainly be extremely intermittent.  It will probably be months before there's another one!  In the meantime, God bless,
Peter