why is the jesus simble like a fish or gos simble whatever it is why is it a fish!!?

Answer 1

Because of the Greek word for fish is IXTHIS ... which is an acronym for Jesus Christ God and Savior

Answer 2

This is legend, and I'm not sure if it's true, but even if not it's a good story. In the early days, Christians were persecuted by the Romans. So you didn't go around with a big cross around your neck or yell out 'Praise Jesus!' in the marketplace or anything. If you saw someone else you thought might be another Christian, you'd make a line in the dirt and he'd make another line and that's how you knew each other. You might make a long line and he'd make short one across it to make a cross, but that was kind of obvious to other people who might see it. But if you look at the fish, it's two curved lines that meet at one end and cross at the other. So you'd make a curved line, and he'd make the other line, and then you'd know each other were Christians and you could go off and have a beer together and talk about stuff. (Or, more seriously, he might take you to his church, because they were secret!)

But the acronym story is also true. In Greek the word 'fish' is is pronounced something like 'ik-thus', and the Greek letters that spell it out--iota, chi, theta, upsilon, sigma--stand for Jesus Christ, King of the Jews, Savior.

And something else interesting. The same figure, two intersecting arcs, was also at one time used to represent . . . umm . . . a certain part of a woman's anatomy, the door through which we enter the world. In the time of goddesses (before Judaism and Christianity), it was a symbol for Mother Earth.

Answer 3

Many reasons one was Christ called his disciples to be Fishers of Men. The symbol was also used during Christian persecution when one person was unsure they would draw 1/2 of the symbol with their foot, believers would finish it also The most meaningful orientation is probably to have the fish swimming to the left. The symbol then resembles the first letter of the Greek alphabet, alpha. That recalls Revelation 1:8:
" I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." (King James Version).

Answer 4

Go to http://www.atheists.org/christianity/fish.html....the fish symbol was used in pagan times before the birth of Christ and was a symbol of rebirth and fertility. Jesus was reborn so it was natural for the symbol to be adopted by the leaders of Christianity.....a good way to gain the favor of pagans

Answer 5

Read Ceasar's Messiah

Answer 6

I always thought it was referring to the fish that he fed the masses along with the loaves of bread.

Answer 7

john b is right, but it was also a symbol to Christians that could be written in the dirt or in the catacombs,

Answer 8

He was also called The Fisher of Men...


...and BTW, the word is SYMBOL.