The reason for them choosing the symbol was because ichthys was an anagram acronym:
Ιησους - Jesus
Χριστός - Christ
Θεού - of God
Υιός - son
Σωτήρ - saviour
I.e. Jesus Christ, son of God, (our) saviour
Or maybe they just thought God was a fish ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The reason for them choosing the symbol was because ichthys was an
anagramacronym:Ιησους - Jesus Χριστός - Christ Θεού - of God Υιός - son Σωτήρ - saviour
I.e. Jesus Christ, son of God, (our) saviour
Or maybe they just thought God was a fish ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Abbreviation maybe? An anagram would be scrambling the letters to remake a phrase with the same letters in a different order
🤦Yeah, not anagram. Acronym is the word I was looking for.