:chuckle:
Is glom your favorite word?
Incompetents like IP would be greatly surprised at the great extent in knowledge not only of so called Church history, but of secular history and many other subjects, that many a Pastor-Teacher who hold to Mid-Acts as a method of Bible study based on the Bible, are very well versed in.
Not that all are.
Others, like Jordan, as had been Stam before him, own huge personal libraries they often refer to aspects of within their preachings and writings.
You name the subject; some of these men know it inside and out.
It is par for the course in those ever curious about the origin of one thing or another and or how it works.
Others are like Feldick, bless his faithfulness despite his obvious limitations.
Much simpler men than the others; they basically stick to what they have long since come to believe they have properly understood (he remains one of the few 1948ers, for example) and do not venture much beyond that.
Every school of thought has some of each of these kinds of men as to their extensive backgrounds in many areas, or not.
The thing that differs?
It is one thing to be well informed of such things based on books "about."
For example, many a secular historian also hold that Peter and Paul had preached different gospels.
This, because they too are free, in their way, from the erroneous bias that many so called Believers, who get their supposed understanding of the Bible itself from books "about," end up at.
It is another thing altogether to look at all things through, and or in light of the Scripture, in contrast to the IPs and Tets of the supposed "Bible" believing world; who get their so called Bible expertise from an overreliance on books supposedly "Bible based."
And only an incompetent (like most who post against Mad on here) would fail to realize that such is life in every walk of life.