"This is, in Israel for sure, the earliest church," archaeologist Yotam Tepper, who heads the excavation, told reporters.
According to Haaretz:
One of the most dramatic finds suggests that, instead of an altar, a simple table stood in the center of the church, at which a sacred meal was held to commemorate the Last Supper.
According to Washington Post
Joe Zias, an anthropologist and a former curator with the Israeli Antiquities Authorities, said the discovery was significant but unlikely to be the world's oldest church. He said Christianity was outlawed until the time of Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, and there were no churches before then.
Images from Repubblica
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Adonai Avinu...open the eyes and hearts across the world to see this amazing truth.
Adonai Elohai...we thankyou for this irrefutable truth.
Adonai Elohim...pour out your spirit unto your believers and prepare us for the final showdown.
amen.
Galilei said...
Hey, this is not going to be the last word on the subject....
Would you please identify yourself, Anonymous, thanks.
