The Earliest Christian House Church, With the Most Ancient Christian Paintings. Dura-Europos church. The Dura-Europos church, located in Dura-Europos in Syria about 232, is the earliest identified Christian house church and one of the earliest surviving Christian churches.

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-What are the characteristics (style, materials, etc.) of the artwork being made in England before its conversion to Christianity? artists favored flat representations of people, animals and objects that only looked nominally like their subjects in real life.

During the Middle Ages, art was more religious because it had a very religious influence from the church having such great power in the community. Art with biblical themes were popular in the Middle Ages because the artists were also focused on theology. Jesus and Mary were usually the main focus in most paintings.

“According to Ethiopian tradition, Christianity first came to the Aksum Empire in the fourth century A.D. when a Greek-speaking missionary named Frumentius converted King Ezana. ‘It is reliable evidence for a Christian presence slightly northeast of Aksum at a very early date.

The Ethiopian Bible is the oldest and most complete bible on earth. Written in Ge’ez an ancient dead language of Ethiopia it’s nearly 800 years older than the King James Version and contains over 100 books compared to 66 of the Protestant Bible.

Catholicism and Protestantism have distinct views on the meaning and the authority of the Bible. For Protestant Christians, Luther made clear that the Bible is the “Sola Skriptura,” God’s only book, in which He provided His revelations to the people and which allows them to enter in communion with Him.