Acts is certainly intended as a history of the early church, and indeed it is the most complete and valuable history of the Christians in the 1st century. Acts could be considered anti-Jewish and I am going to share with you some of the ways I think this is true. The Jewish people were not happy, so they decided to change their religion. Saul who is the main enemy begins to preach the Christian gospel, arguing persuasively that Jesus is the Christ. Saul then changes his name to Paul. Paul is a Christian name and he did not want everyone to know he was Jewish. Paul then travels around to towns and preaches the word of Christianity. Paul has been urging Christians not to follow the Jewish Law. Their was
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