Not hideous at all. It’s called chewing the cud. You take the Word of God and what you know of history, archaeology, etc., znd pass it to me, and I chew it and pass it back. That’s what the church does, and the Holy Spirit teadhes us both.
I’m all for iron sharpening iron.
I’ve never found UNBiblical, absurd slug slime ideas very good for that.