You know, Evangelical ministers typically attend small, so-called Bible colleges, if they have any formal education in the Bible at all. The last thing these Evangelical Bible colleges do is teach critical thinking. It's all apologetics and a very particular kind of conservative interpretation of the Bible. Even if the students learn a little Greek, which is not a given, they still receive a very traditionalist education and are taught to mistrust Bible scholars and any kind of historical critical approach to Bible scholarship.

They claim a Sola Scriptura approach to theology, but they don't mean it. The 'scriptures' they really revere are conservative writings about the Bible, Strong's Concordance, etc. They graduate from these institutions thoroughly indoctrinated and thoroughly disinclined to look at or study anything in the Bible with an open mind.

It's interesting that Bart Ehrman, the popular historical critical New Testament scholar, attended one of these Bible colleges and whet his appetite just enough that he wanted to go to a big university and study more.

What he learned at university shocked him. He had no idea, like most conservative Evangelical Bible students, that a rich body of historical critical New Testament scholarship existed, and that much of it contradicted what he'd been taught to believe.

He thought he was destined to become an Evangelical minister. Instead he became a professor and one of the most well-known Bible scholars of contemporary times.