Alpha and Omega...what can this mean when it is accepted that "God" has no beginning and no end? I suspect

Question

that it is not intended to be literal; rather, it is indicative of something beyond comprehension or expression, so we apply words to concepts that are unfathomable. Your thoughts...?

Answer 1

Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

The significance of this is that alpha and omega are the first and the last letters in the alphabet of the Greek language in which the New Testament was written, and by using them as a name for Himself the Lord is emphasizing His identity with the One eternal and everlasting God, the First and the Last of all things.

In the Old Testament we often find God referring to Himself as the First and the Last and, from the time of Noah, this concept of God as the Eternal One was symbolised by a monogram formed of the first and the last letters of the ancient Hebrew alphabet.

These two letters are "aleph" and "tau", and in the original Hebrew alphabet aleph appears as a diagonal cross x and tau as an upright cross +. Thus, when combined as a symbol to express the idea of the Eternal God, they would appear as a crossed cross, like that of the British flag - the Union Jack. (a clue to the true identity of the British and their descended peoples of the world as being the 10 lost tribes of Israel.)

It is also written in the Koran that God is the First and the Last:

Koran Sura 57:3. He is the First and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent: and He has full knowledge of all things.

The meaning of the Alpha and Omega is not so much connected with God being eternal, than that He is the beginning and the end of this world which is for a term appointed, and no more.

This is well expressed in the Gospel of Thomas and the Koran:

Thomas 3:4 The disciples said to Jesus: Tell us how our end will be.
3:5 Jesus said: Have you then discovered the beginning so that you inquire about the end? For where the beginning is, there shall be the end (Alpha & Omega). Blessed is he who shall stand at the beginning, and he shall know the end and he shall not taste death.
3:6 Jesus said: Blessed is he who was before he came into being.

Koran Sura 30:8. Do they not reflect in their own minds? For nothing except Just Ends and for a Term Appointed, did Allah create the heavens and the Earth, and all between them: yet are there truly many among men who deny the meeting with their Lord (at the Resurrection)!

Answer 2

Language is defective, but it at this level is one of the only effective ways to communicate. It is really difficult to put into words experiences of spiritual significances, it's nearly impossible. This is why there are scriptures, since they are allegories about mind and being, realities which otherwise could not be expressed to those who are not in the know and are of a organic consciousness, natural earth-bound mind. Often throw stories; images and types are these things concealed.

The Alpha and omega is important because its the forces of development, as in the Alpha of unknowing their was ignorance but in the omega of knowing there is fullness. God is Alpha and Omega because God is complete, we become Alpha and omega, that is rectifying the deficiency in the beginning and bringing about the harmonious completion to rest in being. God entered into Rest or BEING when all the laws were in place, the natural laws of Octaves which move all things towards its end. These laws were set that would evolve all things, while God is in completion. As God was man is, as God is man will be. And that doesn't mean God was a man, but rather that this aspect of God became Complete/Harmonious.

The God of the Old Testament or Torah is an allegory for the laws sometimes called the Archons in Gnosticism, which means rulers. Laws are neutral forces which govern things. Much like the law of gravity which is a holographic reflective reflection in the physical universe of higher laws.

Answer 3

The expression "the uncaused cause" use to be employed when someone was attempting to respond to a question such as yours in explaining the infinite and unknowable.

"World without end" is another. "The in explicable", another.

In attempting to deal with an issue such as this, if we accept the proposition that our human mind is finite, but we were created by an infinite being, our capacity to comprehend this being which cannot be defined in terms that are finite, then the argument doesn't have a logical basis on which to proceed. That's it.

One can go on and on, but will inevitably return to the same reference point.

We can endlessly speculate, but if one is honest, they will find themselves on a circular line of logic.

Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, can only define us and our universe of existence: not God.

Bottom line, the infinite cannot be defined in finite terms: the words we use in our definitions.

Wotan

Answer 4

God, as depicted by many religions as a cruel, unjust king sitting on a throne on Nth sky... is a false notion and has been cooked for some underdeveloped brains

Eastern Philosophies have better and more logical explanation about god. As per Hinduism's top philosophies/....god is the supreme Consciousness spread evenly in the cosmos and beyond

This supreme consciousness, with the help of its own force/energy (shakti) manifests the cosmos.

It is only after the cosmos appears that the concept of time and space appears...

So the Supreme cosciousness remains blissfull always evolving and involving the universe, for his own bliss.

He is the beyond the concept of time and space hence it is said there is no begining, no end for Him

Answer 5

Without begining and no end is from time (past, present and future), space (all directions, inclusive of internal) and unit's (one omnipresent) perspective. You have rightly said that Alpha and Omega is like A to Z, indicative meaning of Wholeness.

Poetical expresssion in Upnishad "This (manifested forms with name) is complete, That (God) is complete, This complete has come out of That, but That is still complete".

Answer 6

Unity consciousness or rebirth of the authentic (some call it higher) Self, is essentially ending up where you started. Your will for the divine experience (whatever your level of consciousness in the previous life) fathered this existence in this body. THEN you developed a conditioned sense of identity (lower self/ego). Transcending that programming is full empowerment of the real you - sometimes called a 'return to being' or resurrection of the Christ Self or rebirth, etc. The Alpha and Omega references each of us returning to our true essential nature we STARTED with.

Answer 7

It means that the universe is nothing but an all pervading energy which is pre-existing. The various forms of the animate and inanimate beings are but the manifestations of the pre-existing cosmic force. Although this explanation sounds very simplistic, this is the sum and substance of the Vedanta.

Answer 8

God is the "Alpha & Omega"
Well, I think, our God is the beginning of everything that exists
and He is the end of existence...i.e...if He wants to end it.
No one can fathom, measure nor count through science, numbers or even through anybody`s imaginations... about God existence.......
Thus, anybody can say... God has no beginning nor end...as everybody will be long gone, before discovering "How God did exist ???" "When ???" ... and "How did it (the existence) starts ???"
That is His secret and His right... as a GOD !!!
...do you beg to disagree ?

Answer 9

Because God is infinite, He is also said to be transcendent, which simply means that God is exceedingly far above creation, and is both greater than creation and independent of it. What this means is that God is so infinitely above and beyond us and our ability to fully comprehend that, had He not revealed Himself, we would not know or understand what He is like. But, thankfully, God has not left us in the dark about Himself. Instead, He has revealed Himself to us through both general revelation (creation and our conscience) and special revelation (the Written Word of God, the Bible, and the living Word of God, Jesus Christ). Therefore, we can know God, and we can know how to be reconciled to Him and how to live according to His will. Despite the fact that we are finite and God is infinite, we can know and understand God as He has revealed Himself to us.

Answer 10

It's the same as saying, I started this and I'll finish it. As if no one else has any say or thoughts on the matter. Some are just too full of themselves.