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White Belt · Lesson 2 of 4
Saul Didn't Become Paul
The name change everyone remembers isn't in the text.
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Thirteen New Testament letters carry Paul's name, and his story fills half of Acts. This Class follows him from Pharisee to apostle: the road to Damascus, the letters and the churches they were mailed to, and the questions scholars still argue about which ones he wrote. Twelve lessons across three belts.
Everyone knows the Christmas story — which is exactly what makes it such a pleasure to reread. Only two Gospels tell it, and between them they gave us the shepherds, the magi, a manger, and the calendar the whole world counts by. This Class walks through what Matthew and Luke each actually say: who visits and where, how the family trees run, when the birth really lands, and the famous verse behind "the virgin shall conceive." Eight lessons across two belts.
Everyone knows the ark, the animals, and the rainbow — and the text has more to say than the nursery version. This Class reads the flood story closely: the animal counts, the flood's own calendar, the raven and the dove, and the covenant in the sky; then the braided tellings, the strange prologue, and where the ark is said to have landed. The deepest belt sets Genesis beside the older floods of Gilgamesh and Atrahasis, and follows what geologists and a century of Ararat expeditions have found — and haven't. Twelve lessons across three belts.
The Bible on your shelf has a history — councils and quiet consensus, scribes and printers, manuscripts lost, found, and compared. This Class follows that story: what Nicaea actually decided, why Catholic Bibles run longer, where chapter and verse came from, and what turned up in a cave near the Dead Sea. It starts at Brown Belt because the material does. Eight lessons across two belts.
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