When for 800yrs the lamb was the symbol for Christianity, how did people make the sign of the lamb?

Question

Only later did it change to a sheep on a cross and again it changed to a sheep with a mans head on a cross and then it later became a man on a cross ... now it is often just a cross.

Answer 1

Pisces & the Christian Symbol of the Fish
Due to the earth's precession the Vernal Equinox gradually moved from Aries the ram to Pisces the fish sometime vaguely around 1 CE to 300 CE. (Since there are no well defined borders between the zodiac constellations there's no definitive date.) Hence the symbol of a fish, representing Pisces, became the symbol of Christianity, because the Sun was in Pisces, the fish, on the Vernal Equinox.
Sometimes the fish symbol has the Greek letters ΙΧΘΥΣ in it. This is just the Greek word for "fish" (see Strong's Greek #2486). Some people though have made use of the letters of the word as an acronym for a clever phrase.

The symbol of the fish is also found in the miter the Pope wears. (See the fish in the side view?)

As for Christ on the cross, the oldest artistic representations of the Christian cross depict a figure of a lamb (Aries). The practice of symbolising the saviour by a lamb continued until the Council of Constantinople (692 CE) under the pontificate of Agathon and during the reign of Constantine Pogonat. It was decreed that, instead of the ancient astrological symbol of Aries the lamb, all crosses depicted in art should be combined with the figure of Jesus. The retiring of the Lamb as the main Christian symbol, translated from the Latin, is as follows:



In the Roman Sotteranea of Antonio Bosio, concerning the image of Christ under the figure of a lamb:
In certain representations of the images of the saints, a lamb is portrayed. We, therefore, accepting the old forms and shadows as signs of the truth and as traditional symbols of the church, prefer Grace and Truth, which we accept as the fulfilment of the Lamb. So, that which is perfect, let us place in pictures, even before the eyes of all. We have decreed that the Lamb, which taketh away the sins of the world, Christ our God, ought to be portrayed henceforth in human form in place of the Lamb.
(Higgins, Anacalypsis, Vol.2, pp.111-112)

At first, Jesus was represented fully robed, standing calmly before the cross with outstretched arms. The lamb continued to be shown, usually at the foot of the cross. Later, the figure of Jesus was placed on the cross, undraped, bleeding and tortured by pain from wounds, as he is represented on crucifixes today. Pope Adrian I confirmed this point.1

Answer 2

There are a multitude of symbols for Christ. The earliest was the fish as its name, in Greek, was Icthus, or, again in Greek, Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.

Christ as the Lamb of God is clearly stated in Revelation. How could you miss that?

Depictions of the Lamb against the Cross, however, are fairly recent, only since the Crusades.

Catholics use the crucifix to keep before the eyes of the Faithful what Jesus suffered for their sakes.

Protestants use only the empty cross to symbolize His salvation AND His resurrection, or triumph over death.

Christians started making the sign of the Cross only AFTER the fall of Rome and memories of the true horror of crucifixion were fading. Before then, when you could see the crucified on every road to Rome, nobody wanted to use THAT sign.

Nobody makes a "sign of the Lamb".

Where ARE you getting your data?

Answer 3

The Lamb is what the jewish people sacrficed for their sins.
Christ put an end to that scrafice by giving his life to wipe away our sins. Thus no longer needing a blood sacrfice of a lamb.
Christ was called the Lamb oF God. It was the final sacrfice given. The old testment Law became the new testment/
Some people thought the sign of the cross symbolic of the final sacrifice.

Answer 4

The lamb is the logo of sacrifice for sin contained in the previous testomony. Jesus fulfilled the sacrifice for sin whilst He died on the pass, as quickly as for all. Hebrews 10:10 via the that can we are sanctified during the offering of the physique of Jesus Christ as quickly as [for all]. John a million:29 day after today John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the worldwide. John a million:36 and finding upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God! The Lion is the way Jesus will come again to earth. Hosea 5:14 For I [would be] unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a youthful lion to the domicile of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear and pass away; i'll do away with, and none shall rescue [him].

Answer 5

Not sure where you came up with that one. I have never seen or heard of the lamb as a symbol of Christianity and I have spent my life studying Christ and the Bible. I think you are misled.

Answer 6

thay must have got to lamb chops some were if the shops are still open