Are any letters or numbers Christian?

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This is a question I have been asking around alot lately on different forums but I would like to know if anyone here as any info.

I thought that the letter "T" when it was made into the lowercase form of "t" looks like a Cross and might of been made to look like a Cross on purpose and therefore have a Christian background. Do you think this is any amount of truth to this?

Anyway I am wondering if there are any other letters or numbers which could have a Christian connection. Letters like Aa, Ff, Yy, Rr, Ww or numbers like 4 which I think originally might have looked like an X.

It doesn't matter how small the info or on what letter or number you are talking about I would love to know, thanks.
 
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This is a question I have been asking around alot lately on different forums but I would like to know if anyone here as any info.

I thought that the letter "T" when it was made into the lowercase form of "t" looks like a Cross and might of been made to look like a Cross on purpose and therefore have a Christian background.

Not really, but several Greek letters were later given a Christian interpretation. Especially Chi-rho, the first two letters of "Christ" in Greek, which looks like Xp in our alphabet:

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And Iota-eta-sigma, the first three letters of "Jesus", which looks like IHS in our alphabet:

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I have read that the t is the Latin Cross and sometimes represents the new testiment where as the T is the Tau Cross which represents the old testiment.

The Tau Cross is better known as St Anthony's Cross. The name changed when Constantine found out about St Anthony and his wisdom and therefore renamed the Tau Cross.

Also the Latin Cross is just about the same as the Greek Cross.
 
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In John 21:11 which is after Jesus's resurrection, the disciples were fishing in the Sea of Tiberias and cought 153 fish. Look up the story if you don't know it, then Google "the measure of the fish", and you will see a connection to the number 153. It's interesting, but I don't know how valid it is.
 
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This may not be what you are looking for, but at the same time, I'm sure you will find it fascinating.
Hebrew was originally written in a pictographic script which later developed into what is known as paleo-hebrew or ancient Hebrew.

The First and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet are Aleph and Tav. (Alpha and Omega in the Greek)
The pictographs for Aleph and Tav are an Ox Head, Crossed Sticks.



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The meaning of the Ox Head is "Strength" which is one of the names of God, and the two Crossed Sticks means "mark" or "Covenant".
When Jesus says "I am the Alpha and the Omega" (the Aleph and the Tav) it can be interpreted as his refering to himself as the mark of God, or Gods signature.

In addition to this...something amazing to note is the Hebrew of Genesis 1:1 contains an untranslated word right in the centre of the sentance.

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It is actually the first and the last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The "Aleph" and the "Tav" or the "Alpha and the Omega" as Jesus refered to himself in the book of Revelation.

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