I Wonder… Have you ever seen a "disagreeable" personality of this world, like Saul would have been, changed by God in...let's say… those past fifty years?
Can I assume you have not? Like most of us...
I would really like to have some names, for I really Don't record any man (or woman) that choose the wrong way, did some evil work and been changed all in a sudden (or on a larger scale of time, anyway) by God's grace… I Don't see any one of them… A person recognized by the world by being evil and who changed and walks in Christ now, I mean the true Christ, not these stupid and foolish idols of the heart worldwide Church worships.
We, spiritual jews, are hidden by God. No one can see us, the work of God inside of us. We are spirits, in hope. Nobody sees us changing and growing, except for maybe one or two things in our characters. Even so, people are so blind. How could we be angry at them? they're blinded by the true God Almighty! No one could fight against that. No one has the strenght Inside of them to fight it if it is not by God's strenght.
That's why I find natural catastrophy more impressive in a way that we humans are definitely unable to act in anything to make a positive change...like fire in Amazonia (started surely because of men's hands but anyway unstoppable by men's hands)
There's been 400 years before God sent us a sign of love, I mean a "wordly" sign, incarnated by Jesus His only begotten Son.
So fifty years is a little bit too short to have evidences of God's Love for the "wordly" eye.
I can't help myself, when I read the Bible, I can only see what is happening Inside of me, my own end time prophecy.
I read psalm 9 and see what God is doing Inside of me. I read Matthew 14:22-33 and only can see God's fire working Inside of me.
I can't see it in the world outside, people outside. i only see the same evil, same bad thoughts, bad deeds for every generation.
For the carnal only repeats itself, when, on the contrary, the spirit only produces.
Anyway, religious beliefs or not, from those who claims falsely to belong to the Church of Christ: Mark 9:39-40:
"39 “Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, 40 for whoever is not against us is for us." (even though they're not WITH us)