The pre-Christian history of the fish symbol:
The fish symbol has been used for millennia worldwide as a religious symbol associated with the Pagan Great Mother Goddess. It is the outline of her vulva. The fish symbol was often drawn by overlapping two very thin crescent moons. One represented the crescent shortly before the new moon; the other shortly after, when the moon is just visible. The Moon is the heavenly body that has long been associated with the Goddess, just as the sun is a symbol of the God.
Need I go on?... I can do this allll night
and we DO have a set of belefis. We are NOT atheists. You beleave a god lives in the heavens, I think that *several* gods live in the heavens.
Ever wonder why the domains of the angels happen to line up exactly with the domains of many pagan gods that predate them by hundreds or thousands of years? and not just nordic gods. germanic gods, egyption gods, shinto gods, etc.
Pagan gods (lowercase) predate God (proper noun)?
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1, NIV)
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1, NIV)
That is the joke of "modern" paganism. Even the Greeks believed in Zeus, the Romans in Jove, and the American Indians in The Great Spirit (a.k.a. The Creator a.k.a. The Creator Spirit).
Sure, there are parallels, messenger lesser gods like Mercury and messenger angels like Gabriel. But I hardly believe these somehow disprove monotheism in favor of polytheism. In fact, I believe they prove the opposite. Remember monotheist prophets such as Noah, Abraham, and Moses walked the Earth after the Greek and Roman gods had long left.
That said, where is the formal structure of said pagan theology and denomination? Without it, it is just a bunch of rebellious 20 year olds who rebelliousness should give pause to their proposed careers as military officers.
Gods? The Nephilim.
Then which one(s) made the universe? Major gods? Lesser gods? That would seem at odds though with the symmetry of the earliest thousandths of a second. Did these gods pre-exist its breaking? Which one(s) decided? Was there conflict? Multiple dieties seem pretty confusing.
One God is a better model.
Early Christians used the fish symbol based on Jesus' statement to his early disciples, "I will make you fishers of men."
Ever wonder why the domains of the angels happen to line up exactly with the domains of many pagan gods that predate them by hundreds or thousands of years? and not just nordic gods. germanic gods, egyption gods, shinto gods, etc.
The Bible reveals the existence of the gods you follow. They include ashtoreth, ba'al, moloch and dagon. Christians are aware of them, we call them demons. Your gods know about our Jesus and they tremble with fear at His name.
Has it ever occurred to you that everything satan offers is a weak counterfeit of what God has promised us? Just like your master's empty promises, the gods you chase are watered down counterfeits of the true God's gifts to those who willingly follow Him.