religious countries today. They devised ways by which they could recognise one another. Most commonly they used the symbol of a fish. The Greek word for a fish is ichthus and each letter of that word forms the initial letters of the words ‘Jesus Christ God’s Son Saviour’. For this reason a fish was a useful symbol for identification—and it still is. That fish symbol would become an image the moment it received honour, veneration or worship. In the New Testament God gave us only two visual aids to