{"id":2518,"date":"2025-03-30T22:16:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2025-04-12T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:00:53","slug":"pauls-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"Paul&#8217;s Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three renowned scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor work at the NASAL observatory.<br>Ravioli accidentally bought a book, which turns out to be very interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are at the airport, where Ravioli and Banani are discussing Ravioli&#8217;s book while Papaia searches for a flight to the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: &#8220;Yes, and Paul himself mentions another oral tradition that talks about him. In Galatians 1:23, Paul writes:<br>&#8216;They only heard the report: &#8220;The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And also in Galatians 1:13, he writes: &#8216;For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: And then Paul claims to have met Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: Yes, in 1 Corinthians 15:8, he himself adds to the list of eyewitnesses, writing in verse 8: &#8216;\u2026 and last of all, he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Not only did Jesus appear to him, but He also revealed the gospel to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: In Galatians 1:11-12, he writes: &#8216;I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor: So, Banani\u2026 We could say you had a revelation too\u2026 except yours involved the street pavement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2515\">Previous<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2521\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three renowned scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor work at the NASAL observatory.Ravioli accidentally bought a book, which turns out to be very interesting. We are at the airport, where Ravioli and Banani are discussing Ravioli&#8217;s book while Papaia searches for a flight to the conference. Ravioli: &#8220;Yes, and Paul himself mentions another oral tradition &#8230; <a title=\"Paul&#8217;s Conversion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2518\" aria-label=\"Read more about Paul&#8217;s Conversion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}