taries were publicly denigrated and those books burned? If you were no longer allowed to worship God as you chose? And how would you feel about those who enforced these restrictions? This is not a make-believe scenario. These were the kinds of laws enacted and enforced against the Jews by the Roman government and later the Roman Catholic Church. When the true Church began, nearly all of its members were Jews. They didn’t see themselves as starting a new religion. In fact, they could hardly figure