JeromeBlack:



Did they even use surnames in the bible?

What is John the Baptist's surname?

Even Jesus did not have surname.

Moses did not have a surname

jesus son of Joseph. have you not come across that statement in the Bible? the genealogical history of Christ is in the book of Mathew and luke
Zechariah is John surname
Moses surname is Amram Exodus 6:20

pocohantas:


Why did he chook prick inside?

Why didn't he say "wait... the bible says we shouldn't fornicate"

Why don't guys love that portion of the bible as much as they love the submit part?

Selective reading I suppose.

why did you open for him? what if has repent after marrying you?

When you think you have seen the most stupid of all posts...

What has those bible portions got to do with change of name? You will never see real and successful men bickering about these, only empty, jobless and direction less men will come here to misquote the scripture for something as inconsequential as name change. Well, anything to massage their over bloated self entitlement of being a man. Sarah Abraham, Rebecah Jacob, Elizabeth Zacharia....still looking for these names in the bible...bunch of empty heads

Ugosample:

smh

try and read your Bible before speaking in ignorance

noturbusiness:

why did you open for him? what if has repent after marrying you?

He should give me time to repent too.

BlaqCoffee109:
Op, can you do justice to this: 1 Timothy 5:8 KJV
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
...my take, isn't a man supposed to shoulder the financial responsibility of his household as against the modern trend of men waiting on a woman to contribute 50% of her earnings to take care of the family... isn't it contravening and dis-validating the total uptake of the man's name after marriage? Lazy men/ men with mercenarian tendencies are quick to ask for the woman's financial input in the family as a "right" for them not as a loving contribution when the chips are down...would it then be safe to conclude that if the woman is to totally drop her maiden name and adopt her husband's name she then automatically becomes the responsibility of her husband and such as when she was with her father and he totally was responsible to her well-being and upkeep, her man is to maintain or update that standard,yes? As buttressed by 1 Timothy 5 vs 8? There you have it 9j men, take good care of your wives, give them quality life and spend for them; it is your responsibility...marriage is not for boys but
men...R.E.S.P.O.N.S.I.B.L.I.T.Y! We will bear and keep your names alright while forfeiting our Fathers' names
Cc: Saff, 2buffagain, SexyDenzel

Is it not you women that clamoured for work? Were men not providing until you said you also want to work? Oh, you want to use your own money to do whatever you like, even after depriving his kids and household the full time and care they deserve, which is your responsibility which you abandoned to go fetch for money because feminism told you so?

NwaAmaikpe:



It's simply the fallacy of the twisted ideology of feminism in Nigeria encouraged by effeminated fvckboy sissy husbands.

Some of these mumu husbands have no sense of self-worth, they even consider it a privilege that their wives agreed to marry them hence this fvckery thrives.

Well, unless her father gave you a price slash in the marriage list or you incompletely paid her brideprice, then she can keep it.
But only a foolish man will allow his wife retain her maiden name or include it with his.

Izzou nwanne m onye oma,
Let me add two to the one you've mentioned.

- Tolu Oniru-Demuren,
- Funke Akindele-Bello.

But please don't tell me what else they have in common aside retaining their maiden names.

wtf! Some of u men r taking dis 'i am d man' shit too far. It is every woman's rights to call n retain what ever names she deems fit.

noturbusiness:

jesus son of Joseph. have you not come across that statement in the Bible? the genealogical history of Christ is in the book of Mathew and luke
Zechariah is John surname
Moses surname is Amram Exodus 6:20

Please leave those people alone. They are expecting to see a verse that speaks on surname just as their blind self will be expecting a verse that speaks on twerking on Instagram.

pocohantas:


This is why I suggest History should be made compulsory in secondary schools. You know nothing about culture/tradition obviously.

Just like "white wedding", a woman switching to her husband's name is foreign.

That said, Bride price was started by you men. Men are the ones that sit and collect it all. Ego will not allow you all stop it, because you people must always have something to feel superior about.

Honestly I do wonder if some of you can exist as women. So insecure, despite how society has given you guys a higher standing...you people still fight over the pettiest of things. Jeez!!!!

@ bolded...like spending on the woman? It's a man's thing.

if my dad name will take me to places i retain with hubby, if hubby family name dwarf my dad's, i eliminate dad name.

Ugosample:

with the rate of globalisation
over the decades, bride price will die a natural death in Africa

you will see. ...

30-40 years from now, max

Story Story.

If I tell you that I won't pay your bride price just as you say you want to keep your father's name, will you and your father agree?

Any man that allows his wife to add her father's name to his is not worth the name/title man. No woman can try it with my children even if your father is Dangote or Bill Gates.

The tradition of a wife taking her husband’s last name at marriage is not found in the Bible. In Bible times, most people did not even have last names. Women were often identified by where they lived (e.g., Mary Magdalene, Luke 8:2), by their children (e.g., Mary the mother of James and Joseph, Matthew 27:56)

In Western culture, it has been a common tradition for a wife to change her last name to that of her husband. The vast majority of married women in the West still follow that tradition. There is nothing explicitly biblical about doing this, since the Bible issues no command to do so. Thus, there is nothing explicitly unbiblical about a wife keeping her maiden name or opting for a hyphenated hybrid.

alBHAGDADI:
In today's world, many women find it trendy and classy including their father's name to their husband's name when they get married. Most of them don't even know why it's done, they just do it because they saw others doing it. Many of such women profess to be Christians without knowing that doing such is an open rebellion against their father, their husband and God who instituted marriage from the beginning.

This evil rebellious trend was made popular by Hollywood where you see a Jada Pinkett married to Will Smith now choosing to call herself Jada Pinkett-Smith. The trend quickly got copied by African actresses like Omotola Jalade who got married to Mr. Ekeinde now choosing to call herself Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde. These popular people whom many have chosen as role models have led many into emulating the same idea. That's why many Nigerian ladies on Facebook now have hyphenated names.

This new trend which seems like what has come to stay is a total disregard for God and tradition. Please read the below Bible passages.

Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

The first excuse women who have hyphenated names give is that they are honoring their father who raised them by giving them the best which made them who they are today. That's why they have to retain his name when married just to ensure his name lives on. This is stupidity at it's highest order. Such a woman is only satisfying her ego and not her father.

Did the poor man ever asked to be honored let alone in that way? Did he tell you that when he got married to his own wife, he allowed her to do such to him? Why do you now think he will be happy to know you are causing pain to a young man who is your husband all in the name of an honor he never asked for?

The above passage says you should honor your father and mother, but before that it says OBEY your parents. Failing to do the first part is the reason why you are honoring your father in the wrong manner. If you truly love your father, then why did you disobey what he did on the day you got married?

On the day you got married, he did something symbolic which is very traditional. He walked you down to the altar and handed you over to the man whom you got married to on your wedding day. What he simply did was handover authority over you to your husband and new daddy. It is him you are to obey henceforth. Not saying you are to now start disregarding your parents, but they now have a little authority over your life.

You obeyed your father while under his roof. He gave you the best due to your obedience. Now that he has given you to a man as wife, it is that man you are to obey just as you did your father. Bringing in your father or his name into the man's house is the same as having two captains in a ship. Your father won't even want that because such was never done to him. Hyphenating your name is the same as saying that when your father walked you down the alter, he never handed you over to your husband, instead he also got married to him just as you did.

Some women will say they hyphenate just to preserve their father"s name. Won't that same name die when you die? Can you see how stupid that reasoning is?

Another quarter will say their father's name open doors for them, so they have to keep it because the name of the man whom they married can not even ring a bell but not to talk of opening doors.

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the L ORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Such women are trusting in man instead of God. They believe God who said they should submit to their husband cannot direct their path, so they rely on their rich and famous earthly father who can drop dead at any minute. What is wrong with such women is pride and greed. They don't want to seem to know that they are no longer under their father's roof. They want to eat their cake and have it.

If you don't love a man well enough to submit to him and bear his name alone, then marriage is not for you. Stay in your father's house and keep enjoying the benefits of his name. Getting married and disregarding all of these will mean you have disobeyed many persons.

First you have disobeyed God who told you to submit to your husband just as you submit to Him.

Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Secondly, you have disobeyed your father who symbolically handed you over to your husband as the new authority over you. You have done the wrong thing.

Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Thirdly, you have failed to submit to your husband. No wonder many married women are not having happiness in their homes. They do everything right without knowing that this one single thing that looks harmless is what is causing God to prevent happiness from reigning in their household.

As for sissy men who allow their wives to keep their father's name, your kind is the reason why society is messed up today. If you look at your marriage carefully, you will see that you lack authority there all because you allowed one foolishness to come into it. You are disobeying God by changing traditions.

Proverbs 22:28 King James Version (KJV)
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

CookieLaVee:
When you think you have seen the most stupid of all posts...

What has those bible portions got to do with change of name? You will never see real and successful men bickering about these, only empty, jobless and direction less men will come here to misquote the scripture for something as inconsequential as name change. Well, anything to massage their over bloated self entitlement of being a man. Sarah Abraham, Rebecah Jacob, Elizabeth Zacharia....still looking for these names in the bible...bunch of empty heads

you should ask yourself why the Bible didn't bother to go deep about their history and genealogical records. that we only know them because of their husbands should tell you all you need to know . that nothing about their personal life is written down, only what they did with their husband or they were asked to do by their husband should also tell all you need to know. the Bible does not in anyway support feminist ideas

sinaj:
lollll

You are so funny.

I smile when I see people like you argue unnecessarily

I like myself a lot

You see, before I take any girl to the altar, we will define everything

Yes, if a girl is not ready to answer my surname, well, there’s no basis for marriage

Marriage transcends love...love is just a component of it...understanding and respect matter

Of course, it's even a good thing that there are more women than guys in the world.

So, as far as I am concerned, there's no basis for argument

If a girl feels she wants to keep her father's name, no problem. But she should go marry her father. Better still, find a guy who will accept the nonsense

What the Bible says has nothing to do with it

It's my life; it's my call

QED

FrostyButter:
Lool... The part I wonder about the most is... Their children will still bear their husband's name in the very end...since their aim is to ensure their fathers name doesn't die...duhhh, it's going to die with you woman. Honestly, let's call a spade a spade, religion aside self. It doesn't make any sense. But oh well, people must try to be fake deep and sentimental... I see Nwamaipke viewing this thread... This should be fun.

if we must discuss things that don't make any sense then it should be why a woman should bear her husband's name;it doesn't make any sense. She is not a property a man acquires.

alBHAGDADI:
In today's world, many women find it trendy and classy including their father's name to their husband's name when they get married. Most of them don't even know why it's done, they just do it because they saw others doing it. Many of such women profess to be Christians without knowing that doing such is an open rebellion against their father, their husband and God who instituted marriage from the beginning.

This evil rebellious trend was made popular by Hollywood where you see a Jada Pinkett married to Will Smith now choosing to call herself Jada Pinkett-Smith. The trend quickly got copied by African actresses like Omotola Jalade who got married to Mr. Ekeinde now choosing to call herself Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde. These popular people whom many have chosen as role models have led many into emulating the same idea. That's why many Nigerian ladies on Facebook now have hyphenated names.

This new trend which seems like what has come to stay is a total disregard for God and tradition. Please read the below Bible passages.

Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

The first excuse women who have hyphenated names give is that they are honoring their father who raised them by giving them the best which made them who they are today. That's why they have to retain his name when married just to ensure his name lives on. This is stupidity at it's highest order. Such a woman is only satisfying her ego and not her father.

Did the poor man ever asked to be honored let alone in that way? Did he tell you that when he got married to his own wife, he allowed her to do such to him? Why do you now think he will be happy to know you are causing pain to a young man who is your husband all in the name of an honor he never asked for?

The above passage says you should honor your father and mother, but before that it says OBEY your parents. Failing to do the first part is the reason why you are honoring your father in the wrong manner. If you truly love your father, then why did you disobey what he did on the day you got married?

On the day you got married, he did something symbolic which is very traditional. He walked you down to the altar and handed you over to the man whom you got married to on your wedding day. What he simply did was handover authority over you to your husband and new daddy. It is him you are to obey henceforth. Not saying you are to now start disregarding your parents, but they now have a little authority over your life.

You obeyed your father while under his roof. He gave you the best due to your obedience. Now that he has given you to a man as wife, it is that man you are to obey just as you did your father. Bringing in your father or his name into the man's house is the same as having two captains in a ship. Your father won't even want that because such was never done to him. Hyphenating your name is the same as saying that when your father walked you down the alter, he never handed you over to your husband, instead he also got married to him just as you did.

Some women will say they hyphenate just to preserve their father"s name. Won't that same name die when you die? Can you see how stupid that reasoning is?

Another quarter will say their father's name open doors for them, so they have to keep it because the name of the man whom they married can not even ring a bell but not to talk of opening doors.

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the L ORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Such women are trusting in man instead of God. They believe God who said they should submit to their husband cannot direct their path, so they rely on their rich and famous earthly father who can drop dead at any minute. What is wrong with such women is pride and greed. They don't want to seem to know that they are no longer under their father's roof. They want to eat their cake and have it.

If you don't love a man well enough to submit to him and bear his name alone, then marriage is not for you. Stay in your father's house and keep enjoying the benefits of his name. Getting married and disregarding all of these will mean you have disobeyed many persons.

First you have disobeyed God who told you to submit to your husband just as you submit to Him.

Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Secondly, you have disobeyed your father who symbolically handed you over to your husband as the new authority over you. You have done the wrong thing.

Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Thirdly, you have failed to submit to your husband. No wonder many married women are not having happiness in their homes. They do everything right without knowing that this one single thing that looks harmless is what is causing God to prevent happiness from reigning in their household.

As for sissy men who allow their wives to keep their father's name, your kind is the reason why society is messed up today. If you look at your marriage carefully, you will see that you lack authority there all because you allowed one foolishness to come into it. You are disobeying God by changing traditions.

Proverbs 22:28 King James Version (KJV)
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

How is THAT your problem if her husband doesn't have a problem with it? If you have a problem with that then marry someone that shares the same views as you! If you come to MY house and tell MY wife bullshit like that don't be surprised if you end up with a black-eye.

alBHAGDADI:


Story Story.

If I tell you that I won't pay your bride price just as you say you want to keep your father's name, will you and your father agree?

I'm a man

And yes, I am not collecting a Kobo for my daughters

All I want is their happiness

And I'd be there when they need me.
That's all.


You conservatives can bask in the moment

the days of your ideology is numbered

Ugosample:

I'm a man
And yes, I am not collecting a Kobo for my daughters
All I want is their happiness
And I'd be there when they need me. That's all.

You conservatives can bask in the moment
the days of your ideology is numbered

Since you are an atheist, kindly exit the thread.
bye

Ugosample:

with the rate of globalisation
over the decades, bride price will die a natural death in Africa

you will see. ...

30-40 years from now, max

Your wish but it won't. Even in the next 1000 years. In this part of the world, paying of bride price is very significant and without it, marriage has not been contracted. It has nothing to do with amount but the significance.

pocohantas:


He should give me time to repent too.

submission is what you signed up for as far as you have agreed to marry him. you don't negotiate it. if he ask for time before he starts providing the family basic needs, will you agree?

This post is just another example of how people can misuse the Bible and mislead people who aren't careful. The Bible doesn't ban women from bearing their father's name after marriage, no where in the bible does the Bible command that the woman must drop her father's name after marriage

BlaqCoffee109:
@ bolded...like spending on the woman? It's a man's thing.

Lol, a man's thing how?

Elliot2:
if we must discuss things that don't make any sense then it should be why a woman should bear her husband's name;it doesn't make any sense. She is not a property a man acquires.

well once upon a time, women were considered properties

not anymore

That shift is now difficult for many men to make

Because it's not what they were taught, or what they saw as normal

pek:
Your wish but it won't. Even in the next 1000 years. In this part of the world, paying of bride price is very significant and without it, marriage has not been contracted. It has nothing to do with amount but the significance.

we will see about that na


The significance is even the problem, not even the amount


But as I said, we shall see

DaddyNimo:

what do you mean by "knacking her" isn't sex a two way thing? didn't she also enjoy the sex or was she just laying there while the guy was knacking her? no be their two commit the fornication? I hate people that see sex as a favour to men from women...you need to grow up.

Oga na favour dem do Una by opening their legs for una wey de fornicate. We all know how many can't concentrate on anything until they penetrate a particular woman's genitals. Many even travel hundreds of kilos just to be laid. Many have lost promising jobs, and positions just because they need d favor of a woman's genitals. So pls keep quiet!
All these sexaholic n nymphomaniac ladies around ,who turned them that way? Bad guys using their evil desires to spoil our innocent ladies and later calling them golddiggers or ashwo

noturbusiness:

submission is what you signed up for as far as you have agreed to marry him. you don't negotiate it. if he ask for time before he starts providing the family basic needs, will you agree?

The bible commanded the man to love and the woman to submit. P

Now, let me ask; does the bible mean I shouldn't love my husband, I should only submit?

robedu:
The tradition of a wife taking her husband’s last name at marriage is not found in the Bible. In Bible times, most people did not even have last names. Women were often identified by where they lived (e.g., Mary Magdalene, Luke 8:2), by their children (e.g., Mary the mother of James and Joseph, Matthew 27:56)

In Western culture, it has been a common tradition for a wife to change her last name to that of her husband. The vast majority of married women in the West still follow that tradition. There is nothing explicitly biblical about doing this, since the Bible issues no command to do so. Thus, there is nothing explicitly unbiblical about a wife keeping her maiden name or opting for a hyphenated hybrid.

Go and check out the genealogy of many of those in the Bible, they are traced to men and for a reason.

You say the Bible doesn't use Surname, so you support what the OP is against. If the Bi me doesn't use Surname, why are using it? Oh, because of tradition? Why not do it the way you met it being done, why invent something new against ancient landmarks approved?

OK, the Bible doesn't speak about hyphenating surname, but you do know it speaks about wives submitting to their husbands, right?

Okay, the Bible doesnt speak specifically about pornography, but you know it speaks about sexual immorality, right?

Read the Bible for understanding and stop expecting it to specifically spell everything out for you.

alBHAGDADI:

Since you are an atheist, kindly exit the thread.
bye

I'm no atheist

alBHAGDADI:

Since you are an atheist, kindly exit the thread.
bye

I'm no atheist