A comfort zone is where you feel safe and unchallenged. We all have comfort zones in which things feel familiar and safe: certain people and social situations, certain jobs, preferred topics, etc. We get comfortable with a certain academic depth (or shallowness). While there is nothing wrong or sinful about having comfort zones, exclusively staying within our comfort zone naturally leads to stagnation...

In the world of Biblical academics, there are no lack of theories stating that the New Testament was not written in the first century by the apostles and prophets. While these theories are many and varied, most of them carry a common underlying premise: The rejection of the supernatural and the miraculous as they search for purely human means by which the harmony of scripture and fulfilled prophesy could happen. As a result, they invent increasingly complex theories...