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He said, “We are trying to be as much like the First Century churchbecause the thing we really emphasize is total commitment to Jesus.”Īrnold said his first contact with the group came about when he attended his first “informal Bible talk.” “The people who don’t want to chagne their life call us a cult,” said Gregg Eargle, a minister with the Central Florida Church of Christ and a member of Alpha Omega. The Boston Church of Christ is listed with the Cult Awareness Network as an organization which has received numerous complaints from callers.Īrnold said Alpha Omega has practices which resemble cult-like symptoms: “a seeming monopoly on the truth, financially and emotionally, requirements of submission to authority, a communal lifestyle and a phobic-like fear of leaving the group.” Some of the practices of Alpha Omega, a religious organization at UCF, have been questioned by John Arnold, psychology major and former member of the Boston Church of Christ.Īrnold believes Alpha Omega is a cult since the club is sponsored by the Central Florida Church of Christ, a church that is affiliated with the International Church of Christ, formerly known as the Boston Church of Christ. Alpha Omega’s tactics questioned The Central Florida Future / Sept. ^ Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical by Albert Barnes.Smith and the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ^ The New Bible Dictionary, edited by Alton Bryant Bible Dictionary by Wm.

^ Interlinear Greek English Septuagint Old Testament (LXX) (in Ancient Greek and English).

Young's Concise Commentary on the Holy Bible.

^ At this time, the Greek name of the letter was still "Ô" (Ὦ), which is found in the earliest Greek manuscripts the later name "omega" (Ὦ μέγα) is found in many later Greek manuscripts.

The Signs and Symbols Bible: The Definitive Guide to Mysterious Markings. They are often shown to the left and right of Christ's head, sometimes within his halo, where they take the place of the Christogram used in Orthodox art. In fact, despite always being in Greek, the letters became more common in Western than Eastern Orthodox Christian art. The letters were shown hanging from the arms of the cross in Early Christian art, and some cruces gemmatae, jeweled crosses in precious metal, have formed letters hanging in this way, called pendilia for example, in the Asturian coat of arms, which is based upon the Asturian Victory Cross. The symbols were used in early Christianity and appear in the Roman catacombs.

The letters Alpha and Omega, in juxtaposition, are often used as a Christian visual symbol (see examples). There is no real incongruity in supposing, also, that the writer here meant to refer to God as such." Most Christian denominations also teach that the title applies to God (Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit). Barnes' Notes on the New Testament (1974) claims: "It cannot be absolutely certain that the writer meant to refer to the Lord Jesus specifically here. Many commentators and dictionaries ascribe the title "the alpha and the omega" to both God and to Christ.

This phrase is interpreted by many Christians to mean that Jesus has existed for all eternity or that God is eternal. The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet were used because the book of Revelation is in the New Testament, which was originally written in Greek. Thus, the phrase "I am the alpha and the omega" is further clarified with the additional phrase, "the beginning and the end" in Revelation 21:6, 22:13. Ī similar reference is in Isaiah 44, where the Father says to be the first and the one who is after all.Īlpha (Α) and omega (Ω) are the first and last letters, respectively, of the classical (Ionic) Greek alphabet. Scholar Robert Young stated, with regard to "I am the Alpha and the Omega" in 1:11, the "oldest omit" it. It is, therefore, omitted in some modern translations. Several later manuscripts repeat "I am the Alpha and the Omega" in 1:11 too, but do not receive support here from most of the oldest manuscripts, including the Alexandrine, Sinaitic, and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus. The first part of this phrase ("I am the Alpha and the Omega") is first found in Chapter 1 verse 8 ("1:8"), and is found in every manuscript of Revelation that has 1:8. The phrase "I am the Alpha and the Omega" ( Koiné Greek: "ἐγώ εἰμί τὸ Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὦ"), is an appellation of Jesus and of the Father in the Book of Revelation (verses 1:8, 21:6, and 22:13).

The first written record of the phrase "alpha and omega" is from some old manuscripts of the Christian New Testament. This pair of letters is used as a Christian symbol, and is often combined with the Cross, Chi-rho, or other Christian symbols. Alpha ( Α or α) and omega ( Ω or ω) are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, and a title of Christ and God in the Book of Revelation.