{"id":2521,"date":"2025-03-30T23:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T22:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2025-04-12T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:00:36","slug":"a-mysterious-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2521","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious 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>Banani: Let\u2019s say Paul was lying\u2014how could we explain his conversion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: We can\u2019t, because it wouldn\u2019t make sense. Just like the disciples, Paul had nothing to gain by converting. And we realize the suffering he went through because of his faith and preaching, as seen in his letters and in Acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: At this point, it\u2019s impossible to say that the resurrection is a legend invented by the church. These people were truly convinced they saw Jesus resurrected!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: To create a legend, it takes centuries, not just a couple of years. This is known by all scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banani: Wow! So it\u2019s not a legend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor: These scientists are right to worry about what people were saying in the first century. But now, aside from the story of the tampered ATM, they should be more concerned about what people are saying today when they see their luggage\u2026 flipped over and open!<\/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=2518\">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=2533\">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. Banani: Let\u2019s say Paul was lying\u2014how could we explain &#8230; <a title=\"A Mysterious Conversion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2521\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Mysterious 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-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","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=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4320,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/4320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}