What does the fish symbol mean??((religious))?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The fish was a symbol expressive of the name of Christ; and remarkable as affording a combination of every thing desirable in a tessera, or mystic sign. The Greek for fish, contains the initials of; Jesus Christ, Son of God, the Saviour: a sentence which had been adopted from the Sibylline verses. Moreover, the phonetic sign of this word, the actual fish, was an emblem whose meaning was entirely concealed from the uninitiated: an important point with those who were surrounded by foes ready to ridicule and blaspheme whatever of Christianity they could detect. Nor did the appropriateness of the symbol stop here. "The fish," observed Tertullian, "seems a fit emblem of Him whose spiritual children are, like the offspring of fishes, born in the water of baptism."

Answer 3

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What does the fish symbol mean??((religious))?

Answer 4

"ΙΧΘΥΣ, which means Fish
And very aptly symbolizes Christ,"

as Browning reminds us. The initials of the Greek word form a notariqon of the sentence "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior." It can also be linked to the various miracles "Christ" is said to have performed in connection with fish, and his statement to the fishers Simon and Andrew that he would make them "fishers of men" - which (it is almost universally agreed) did NOT mean that he intended to turn them out as gay prostitutes.

It was a symbol of the early Christians, before they started using the cross as a symbol.

Now the interesting fact is that both the fish and the cross were pre-Christian, "pagan" fertility symbols. The fish is the "vesica piscis" (lit. the "bladder of the fish"), the shape formed by the conjunction of two circles; it is the age-old symbol of the womb. The cross, meanwhile, is an ancient phallic symbol. Both were used as such for centuries before their appropriation by Christians.

Answer 5

A few thousand years ago when Christianity was first starting, they were persecuted. The way you could tell if someone was a Christian or not was by drawing half of the fish in the sand with your foot. If they completed it, it was safe to talk.

Answer 6

The Greek letters that make of the word for fish are IXOYE, and they form an acronym that has also been associated with this symbol. Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter', which is translated as 'Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior'

I h s o u V - Jesus
C r i s t o V - Christ
Q e o u - God's
U i o V - Son
S w t h r -- Savior

Answer 7

It was the earliest symbol of Christianity. It was used before the cross was used by Christians as a symbol.

Answer 8

It was the symbol of Christ's pupils and followers.
It derives its origin from Greek ΙΧΘΥΣ. which means "fish". It is acronym. Like this
I - Ιησους - Jesus
X - Χριστός - Christ
Θ - Θεού - God's
Υ - Υιος - Son
Σ - Σωτήρ - Saviour.

Answer 9

Thousands of people came to hear Jesus speak of the Kingdom of Heaven and they stayed so long that the disciples asked Jesus if they should send them away for they had nothing to feed them. Jesus offered up a fish to heaven to be blessed and He fed the multitude of people with a fish and a couple loaves of bread. And there were left overs.
That is why you see the fish on cars and trucks.

Answer 10

it's a symbol of Jesus. The letters that make up the Greek word fish (I Ch Th U S) can stand for Jesus Christ Son of God Saviour (in Greek).

Answer 11

The ichthys or fish symbol represents Christianity. Ichthys (Greek: also transliterated and latinized as ichthys, icthus, ichthus or ikhthus; ichthus, spelled: Iota Chi Theta Upsilon Sigma), is the Ancient and Classical Greek word for "fish." In English it refers to a symbol consisting of two intersecting arcs resembling the profile of a fish, used by early Christians as a secret symbol and is now known colloquially as the "Jesus fish." Ichthus (ΙΧΘΥΣ, Greek for fish) is an
acronym or backronym of "Jesus Christ, Son Of God,
Saviour .
Societies of Christians in the early Roman Empire, prior to the Edict of Milan, protected their congregations by keeping their meetings secret. In order to point the way to ever-changing meeting places, they developed a symbol which adherents would readily recognize, and which they could scratch on rocks, walls and the like, in advance of a meeting. At the time, a similar symbol was used by Greeks to mark the location of a funeral, so using the ichthys also gave an apparent legitimate reason for Christians to gather. Another story suggests that the ichthys was used as a sort of secret handshake: one person would draw with a staff a single curve, (half of the ichthys) in the sand, and another person could confirm their identity as a Christian by completing the symbol. Alternatively, one would draw the symbol, and another person would confirm their faith by drawing an eye on it.

Ichthus (ΙΧΘΥΣ, Greek for fish) is an acronym, which is a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name. It compiles to "Jesus Christ God's Son is Saviour" or "Jesus Christ God's Son Saviour", in ancient Greek .

I is the first letter of the word Iesous (Ιησους), Greek for Jesus
CH are the first letters (in Greek one letter) of the word Christos (Χριστóς), Greek for Christ
TH are the first letters (in Greek one letter) of the word THeou (Θεοῦ), genetive case of Θεóς, Greek for God
Y is the first letter for Yios , Greek for son.
S is the first letter for Soter (Σωτήρ), Greek for savior.