Jesus and the Fish symbol meaning?

There's a strong tie between fishing and Christianity. Several disciples were fishermen. There is a parable of Jesus multiplying a few loaves and fishes to feed five thousand. The fishing industry was protected when the decree was made to not eat meat during Lent by making an exception for fish. The letters in the Greek word for fish are an acronym for "Jesus Christ, God's Son, the Savior." It's an overall symbol for Christianity.

The fish symbol dates from the early greek portion of the church. The greek word for fish is an acronym for Jesus (can't really remember the exact one) and so, by having a fish drawing in an incospicuous location one could notify others that the the household was christian. Essentially, the fish was a secret code.

After Jesus Christ was crucified and resurrected, His followers were heavily persecuted by the Roman Army, so they picked a simple fish symbol to communicate their meeting places without the Romans understanding.

It came from a statement that Jesus made to His first disciples when He said, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men".

The fish symbol was an early way of persecuted Christians to identify themselves to one another.

If a person met another person on the street, - they'd draw one curved line in the dirt with a stick. If the other person matched their curved line with another to make a fish, - then they knew they were both Christians.

Today's Christians mistakenly use this symbol as a Christian one, but it originated (like a lot of Christian things) as pagan, and not because we are "fishers of men". It was in honor of Dagon (mentioned a lot in the Bible infamously) the fish god. You really shouldn't use it.

The fish symbol is Ichthus a Greek name for Dagon. Jesus is Dagon.

The true Messiah is Yehowshuwa.

The fish symbol was used at a time when christian perscution was happening, so they used that as a secret identification symbol.

Edit- Yeah what MK6 said =).

The Jesus fish: the Ichthys

Ichthys(ΙΧΘΥΣ) is greek for fish. It was used as an acronym:

* Iota (i) is the first letter of Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς), Greek for Jesus.

* Chi (kh) is the first letter of Khristos (Χριστóς), Greek for "Christ" or "anointed".

* Theta (th) is the first letter of Theou (Θεοῦ), that means "God's", genitive case of Θεóς, Theos, "God".

* Upsilon (u) is the first letter of huios (Υἱός), Greek for Son.

* Sigma (s) is the first letter of sōtēr (Σοτήρ), Greek for Savior.

MK6 and Joel are correct.