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Alpha and Omega are not the sign 'X' and 'P'. Alpha and Omega occurs in Revelation 1:8 and means 'the beginning and the end' meaning that Christ was there at the beginning and will be there at the end of time at the judgement. Alpha and Omega are used as they are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet as Revelation was originally written in Greek. If it had been written today we would have called him the A and Z. The 'X' and 'P' of the XP sign are not the letters X and P, nor Windows XP trademark. They are the Greek letters Chi (χ) and Rho (ρ). These two letters form the first part of the name of Christ in Greek 'Christos' (Χριστος) and so 'X' and 'P' signs are a shortened way of writing Christ's name. The 'Chi-Rho' sign as it is called is seen often in Churches or on books or anywhere where the maker or writer wishes to identify the object as Christian.For the same reason Christmas is sometimes shortened to Xmas. Again the 'X' is the letter 'Chi' and not 'X'and so Xmas should always be pronounced Christmas and never 'Ex-mass'.

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