“All Roads Lead to Damascus” refers to Paul’s sudden and dramatic conversion. The expression is thus often used when describing a similarly dramatic change in someone’s ideas or beliefs.  Damascus was the greatest city of Syria, serving in Paul’s time as the capitol of the Roman province of Syria. As with any great city, all the major roads led there with a certain inevitability. Paul’s conversion was sudden and dramatic, a “road to Damascus” moment, as such life-changing experiences have since been called. However, it was also inevitable. It was the result of his “kicking against the goad” (Acts 26:14)––his resisting the light and grace by which Christ sought him as His own. It was not a struggle Saul was going to win. Reflecting on their own conversions, many converts also find this to be true in their own case.