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´À³¢°í ÀÖ´Ù. JERUSALEM, Israel - As new archaeological discoveries emerge and
past ones are studied again, scholars are becoming more and more intrigued by
the extent and size of the first century Christian Church in Jerusalem.
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"¿¹¼ö"¿¡°Ô ¹ÙÃÄÁø ÇåÁ¤»çµéÀ» ¹ß°ßÇÏ°í´Â ³î¶ó°í ÀÖ´Ù. Moreover, historians are surprised to discover dedications to "Jesus"
appearing in Hebrew and Greek in numerous ancient catacombs (burial caves) which
apparently belonged to the very first Christians.
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These revelations come on the heels of decades of debate as to the accuracy
of events recorded in the Gospels and the Book of Acts.
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°ÍÀ¸·Î ¹Ï¾ú´Ù. Many nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars and archaeologists supported
the theory that the first Christians were few in number and had quickly
dispersed from the Holy Land after Jesus' crucifixion. In addition, they
believed that the symbol of the cross was not used by the first followers of
Jesus but was a latter addition to Christianity, dating to the third or fourth
centuries.
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These notions are now being disproved by new archaeological studies and
discoveries which suggest the existence of a very substantial first century
Christian community - a community which labored intensively to spread its new
faith from Jerusalem to the rest of the world.
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