Timeline for Alpha and Omega. In what sense does the Lord mention them?
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| S Jun 9 at 16:41 | history | bounty ended | George F | ||
| S Jun 9 at 16:41 | history | notice removed | George F | ||
| Jun 8 at 12:52 | answer | added | RaySolva | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 7 at 22:24 | comment | added | George F | @OldeEnglish I like you, no matter what :) | |
| Jun 7 at 22:22 | comment | added | Olde English | @GeorgeF - My "dogmatic" views, as you say, most probably came about as a result of not being prepared to go with the "status quo", the proponents of which have long been all too eager to treat scripture as one big mysterious plot, rather than a truly understandable and informative message. I actually did look at the scriptures with a dubious, although quite probably somewhat exceptional, even translucent, neutral eye and it is because of this approach that I came to see things much more clearly. With all due respect, I suspect that your neutral eye may be somewhat clouded. | |
| Jun 7 at 22:21 | answer | added | George F | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 7 at 19:03 | comment | added | George F | @OldeEnglish As a friend, I must say that your dogmatic views surprise me a little. Break away from your dogmatism and look at Scripture with a neutral eye. I also follow this approach myself, because I cannot be sure for everything. | |
| Jun 7 at 17:49 | comment | added | Olde English | @GeorgeF - +1. A good question to be sure. As for an answer, well you could check out the answer I gave to a related Q: hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/55950/… ... where you can see that while the "Alpha and Omega" primarily involves God, as in God Almighty, the expression also refers to Jesus, himself, but not in the same vein. | |
| Jun 4 at 11:22 | comment | added | George F | I deleted my unnecessary comments | |
| Jun 4 at 5:16 | answer | added | Revelation Lad | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 4 at 0:20 | history | edited | George F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 3 at 23:48 | history | reopened |
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| Jun 3 at 23:48 | history | edited | Dieter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Rewrote the question to separate it from the Alpha and Omega idiom.
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| Jun 2 at 16:24 | comment | added | RaySolva | I feel that I have something on the question matter to address, and would like to do so, if it be opened and I find my span for doing that. Voted for reopen. | |
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| Jun 2 at 6:02 | history | edited | George F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 2 at 1:36 | history | closed |
user111403 C. Stroud agarza Glory To the Most High Dottard |
Duplicate of What does "Alpha" mean in Revelation 21:6? | |
| S Jun 1 at 16:27 | history | bounty started | George F | ||
| S Jun 1 at 16:27 | history | notice added | George F | Improve details | |
| May 31 at 2:03 | comment | added | Revelation Lad | In addition to the symbolism of first and last, beginning and end, the reason is to validate Scripture in the Greek language. Hebrew has 22 letters; Greek 26. When Jesus says He is the Alpha and Omega, ἐγώ εἰμι τὸ Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὦ He is saying I am the Alpha (the first letter of both the Hebrew and Greek language) and the Ὦ (not the word omega, the letter). There is no Hebrew Ὦ so the Scripture in Greek is divine even though it is not in Hebrew. | |
| May 30 at 22:01 | comment | added | George F | @RaySolva I think that this question you are asking has the same underlying meaning. The point is simply that the answer given to this question, although formally correct, does not satisfy me, because I believe that God chose to mention the alphabet for a specific reason. That is the meaning I am looking for. Perhaps the alphabet had a special significance at the time of Christ. Not so much to learn the meaning of the alphabet, that would be too ambitious, but to learn the meaning of the nature of God, and that is what is sought here. A general picture, if possible. | |
| May 30 at 20:49 | history | edited | George F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 30 at 17:02 | comment | added | RaySolva | If I got OP's implicit thought process right, the question can be restated as "why did Jesus use alphabet as an illustration for 'first-and-last' sense, and did not use, for example, image of sunrise and sunset, or of birth and death?". If that is the question, I do not find any other to be its duplicate and do not find any reason to close this one. | |
| May 30 at 16:54 | comment | added | RaySolva | To prevent closing the question, I suggest to focus on the title question - 'Why does the Lord mention the alphabet?'. That question may be addressed from different angles - primal textual, secondary textual, cultural-historical. +1 for the title question; other subquestions deserve to be clarified in their relation to the main. | |
| May 30 at 16:52 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 30 at 16:23 | answer | added | Anne | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 30 at 12:11 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | Perhaps this answers the title question: From A to Z: The Evolving Narrative of Amazon's Logo: "It stretches from the letter ‘a’ to the letter ‘z’, indicating Amazon’s wide product offering—implying that customers can find everything from A to Z on the platform". | |
| May 30 at 10:50 | answer | added | Gina | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 30 at 9:27 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 30 at 9:21 | comment | added | user111403 | So I repeat - which part of your question does it not answer? Specifically, your main question ("why alphabet") is addressed directly by the first paragraph: "The Greek word "alpha" always occurs as part of the phrase "alpha and omega". These are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. As such it appears to be a Greek explanation for the very OT Hebrew expression, "First and Last"." | |
| May 30 at 9:19 | answer | added | Dottard | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 30 at 9:19 | comment | added | George F | @user111403 this answer does not answer my question | |
| May 30 at 9:09 | comment | added | user111403 | It's not clear which part of this isn't answered by the question and accepted answer here. | |
| May 30 at 8:52 | history | asked | George F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |