That dark season ended in the summer of 1999, when I was invited to a Bible study talking about the reliability of scripture. I decided to attend. I don’t actually remember most of the arguments and data used in this multiweek study, but I remember one of them and got concerned. We were talking about the prophesies Jesus fulfilled. A statistician/mathematician attempted to calculate the chances of a single person fulfilling some of the prophesies. He used population data and various other things I don’t understand but believe he did. He explained that the odds were like covering Texas in coins, marking one, and then asking a blindfolded person to find it on their first guess. Those were a subset of the prophies Jesus fulfilled. I didn’t grasp all the math, but the sheer improbability rattled me. I had to admit that maybe I had dismissed Jesus too quickly. The other thing I remember from that class is that Luke was one of the best historians of his time. As historians and archeologist learn more about the first century AD, they learn that both Luke’s Gospel and Acts are very historically accurate. This is the second time I changed my mind. From unbelief to curiosity and agnosticism.