John Schwartz asked Sherry Christie:

Reading about Rome is always very interesting. In my recent book, the Romans slaughter and enslave millions of Jews in Israel. Although my book The LIE That Changed The World is a fictional scroll written by Jesus at age 80 just before the Romans destroyed him and 950 Jews in Masada, the Romans' violent acts are not imaginary. My question is, do you and others in Goodreads focus only on stories that follow the Bible?

Sherry Christie I tend to avoid reading stories that involve early Christianity. So much of what we consider to be New Testament truth is really unknown or was invented by the church fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries. That said, I'd question taking a lot of liberties with Jesus as a fictional character. Married? Yeah, okay. Masada? Hmm. That scenario may seem perfectly okay to many readers, but my upbringing makes it difficult for me to suspend disbelief about an 80-year-old Jesus. No offense.

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