One of the most pop­u­lar argu­ment often pro­posed by mis­sion­ar­ies as ​“evi­dence” that Luke was ​“inspired”, or at least some­one who we can blind­ly trust with­out sec­ond thoughts, is as fol­lows : he was an excel­lent his­to­ri­an who con­duct­ed a care­ful inves­ti­ga­tion dur­ing the course of com­pos­ing his books.