Many who have read one or more of my commentaries on the Bible have asked me why I write the commentaries.  Others have questioned me about what training I have had, pertaining to Bible study and Christian doctrine.

I have been a Christian all of my life.  Never have I not believed in God.  Since 1975, I have studied the Bible with great interest and focus.  In 1990, I felt that the Holy Spirit impressed upon me to write about Bible topics, particularly prophetic issues.  I believe that anyone who has faith in God, who seeks Him earnestly, and who has a reasonable degree of common sense, can read the Bible and grasp the concepts God intends for people to understand.

I am an optometric physician; and in 1991, I retired from the practice of eye care.  Subsequently, for the next few years, I devoted the majority of my time to an in-depth examination and analysis of Scripture.  The Lord has taken care of me all these years after retirement, and He continues to do so.  I believe this has been because the main focus of my life has been on Him.  He is utterly amazing.  Besides having read the Bible from cover to cover many times, my studies also have included reading and listening to numerous commentaries by well-known evangelists and Bible scholars throughout the years.

Over several years, in the early 1990s, I wrote a lengthy and comprehensive study of the Bible: Creation ... Counterfeits ... and the 70th Week.  During the first three months of 1996, I taught myself HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the primary language used to make web pages.  I even created Ted’s HTML Tutorial to help others, as well, to learn HTML.

Using HTML, I translated my lengthy Bible study into web page format.  Soon thereafter, I created the eye section of my website, Anatomy, Physiology & Pathology of the Human Eye.  According to many, my eye site is the most comprehensive and popular website about the human eye on the World Wide Web.  (If you search for human eye in common search engines, a link to my eye site should appear within the top five out of tens of millions of links.)  Other sections of my website, such as Ted’s Punctuation Guide, Measurements & Conversions, and Special ALT Characters are just a few of my other highly-visited sites and pages as well.

I have included, and continue to add, information to my website.  I have tried to be a good web citizen by creating a helpful website, containing useful, beneficial information to multitudes of people around the world, without including any irritating and distracting advertisements.  Everything at my website is free; I pay for all of it myself.  I never have asked, nor have I expected, anyone else to help subsidize, finance, nor sponsor my website.  I will not accept donations even when offered.

The main reason I have such a varied website is to “attract” visitors to the things I have written about God and the Bible.  He is the one Who created my website, using me as a mere tool to do it.  I feel that He has done it to glorify Himself through the things I have written about Him and about His Word.  At least, I hope He has.

I welcome comments about anything I have written, as long as they are rational and logical observations rather than hostile attacks.  You may even feel a need to pursuade me to believe as you do about certain matters.

However, before you attempt to do so, it would be a good idea for you to comment on specific items that I have written, as a basis on which to have a meaningful discussion with me (see Attempts to Persuade Me to Believe Certain Things).  Better yet, create your own website, encompassing your own views and beliefs, and find others who will be willing to discuss, with you, the topics you find most interesting.

You can see in my Email Questions and Ted’s Responses section that I do respond at length, on occasion, to some emails.  Generally, such emails of inquiry are brief, commenting on or asking something specific about the Bible or prophecy.  Unfortunately, I do not have the time to respond to all emails, at least in depth.

Ted