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The Word Fish Was Used By Early Christian

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in Christianity, the symbol 'Fish' was used by early christians and has been with the christian faith for a long time. The word Fish in Greek letters is 'ICHTHUS'; Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter in Greek and in English, Jesus Christ God's Son Saviour. In the early days,when Romans were trying to find the Christians, meeting with other Christians was too risky and dangerous, so they made a secret code to connect with each other without getting caught. The fish symbol was recognisable to only the Christians and not others. Sometimes, one person would draw half of the fish, and the other Christian would draw the other half of the fish. The fish symbol was used by other people before Christians, people like Romans, Greeks and other pagans. The
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