Re: [Cz-L] Fw: Star of David, University of Chernivtsi

Paul Heger is right in his arguments.
Maybe I was not fully understood, and it's me.

What I mean is that for those Churches or Christian institutes that are willing to use the Magen David for various reasons they have some theological endorsement to do so. I didn’t mean to say that the driving reason is theology.

Julian Rubin
The author of The Orchid Grower
A juvenile science adventure novel
>From Zumaya Publications
www.julianTrubin.com

--- On Fri, 10/1/10, Paul Heger <pheger_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Paul Heger <pheger_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Fw: Star of David, University of Chernivtsi
> To: "Julian Rubin" <julianrubin2000_at_yahoo.com>
> Cc: hedbren_at_zahav.net.il, Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 2:50 PM
> Julian is right regarding the
> theological doctrine of Christianity,
> but |I doubt very much whether this was the motive for
> installing a
> Magen David on the Residenz in Czernowitz. The church
> leaders know
> very well that South Asia is the source of this magic
> symbol, which
> was adopted late by the Jews and has no association with
> Jewish belief
> and its allegation of being chosen by God. Adopting it by
> Christians
> would not support their doctrine of being the current
> chosen people.
> Further, if indeed the Church would have perceived it as a
> symbol of
> its supplanting Israel, it would have been done on a
> universal scale,
> on every church and Christian institution, not extremely
> rare, as it
> is today.
> Paul/Pessach Heger
-snip-

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