slowmutant wrote:
jrknothead wrote:
Is this what they mean when they refer to the 'Jesus Fish'?
No, the Jesus Fish was a symbol used in coversion by the member of the early church. They feared capture and imprisonment by authorities so they had to meet in secret to do their worshipping. Christians have been both oppressor and oppressed at one time or another. The Christians in China are being oppressed right now!
Jesus warned us that we would suffer for our beliefs, because of him.
And it was used by the early Christians because the Greek word for "fish", ichthus, is an acronym for "J-s-s Chr-st, S-n of G-d, S-v--r" (In Greek, of course).