I used corban on another thread. I learned it meant a gift offering dedicated to God and that it had been misused by Jews before Jesus to evade their duty to care for their aged parents.
Mark 7:11,12 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God) then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother..
It is a fact Jehovah's Witnesses raise their children in a way that leads the children to a personal dedication to God. What better gift can there be than one's own offspring?
1 Samuel 1:11,28; 2:21
Judges 11:34,35
I realize that the customary definition of Corban might mean a money gift. But because the situation with the children is similar, in that the child has been dedicted to the service of Jehovah, the child is guarded against anything that might prevent it, namely knowing their unbelieving grandparents. It is the truth that Jehovah's Witness parents prevent their own parents from knowing the child for fear the child will choose the non Jehovah's Witness faith of the gradparents over the faith of the parents.
Corban: A gift offering (the child) dedicated to God (to be a Jehovah's Witness). Who knows corban only refers to money?
Mark 7:11,12 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God) then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother..
It is a fact Jehovah's Witnesses raise their children in a way that leads the children to a personal dedication to God. What better gift can there be than one's own offspring?
1 Samuel 1:11,28; 2:21
Judges 11:34,35
I realize that the customary definition of Corban might mean a money gift. But because the situation with the children is similar, in that the child has been dedicted to the service of Jehovah, the child is guarded against anything that might prevent it, namely knowing their unbelieving grandparents. It is the truth that Jehovah's Witness parents prevent their own parents from knowing the child for fear the child will choose the non Jehovah's Witness faith of the gradparents over the faith of the parents.
Corban: A gift offering (the child) dedicated to God (to be a Jehovah's Witness). Who knows corban only refers to money?