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Admin	Changing Last Names Posted : 17 Oct, 2019 07:12 AM When marrying, why is only the woman expected to change her last name? Why doesn't the man do also? Post Reply
View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 27 Oct, 2019 10:10 AM Well, the Bible says that our names are written or engraved on Christ's hands, so... As the husband being the head of the wife, so what? Head there just means "source or origin". The Bible also says that women are the source or origin of men. Post Reply
View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 28 Oct, 2019 02:48 AM I am yet to see a standard Greek-English lexicon for the New Testament which includes the meaning ‘source, origin’ for kephale. The term is used metaphorically for rank, e.g. the head, corner stone, ruler, lord. Can you substantiate your assertion that the Greek term kephale (head) means source/origin, and does not pertain to authority? Post Reply
View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 29 Oct, 2019 07:13 AM https://www.psephizo.com/biblical-studies/head-does-not-mean-leader-in-1-cor-11-3/ Post Reply
Alligator View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 29 Oct, 2019 09:27 PM HOLD IT A MINUTE.... if your last name is smith and his is jones, to have the same name like johnson, you would have to go to court to get a legal name change. And you have to have a good reason to change your name. Unless you were in hiding and protective custody, what would be a good reason for changing your names? Post Reply
View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 29 Oct, 2019 09:57 PM No need for all that fuss. Just both become Smith-Jones. Post Reply
View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 31 Oct, 2019 05:35 AM That article coils and twists more than a snake. In her footnotes, the author acknowledges ‘kephale’ to carry the sense of prominence to some extent, but then fails to substantiate why she believes the use in 1 Corinthians 11 is disparate. Then she paradoxically implies that the editors of the NT lexicons must have been influenced by ‘tradition and a male-dominant world view’ when agreeing on how the metaphor of ‘head’ is used. She also fails to cite a single source which refers to the standard lexicons to corroborate her claim. How revealing is it that Ephesians 1:22 is conspicuously absent from the references which the author selected to cite? 22. And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head (kephalen) over all things to the church, 23. which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. In context, Paul used the word head (kephalen) here to call on the wives to be subject to their husbands in everything as the church is subject to Christ. Paul certainly wasn't saying that God put all things under Jesus’ feet and so made him the “source over all things” in the church. Comparing scripture with scripture, contextually the relationship between Christ and the church is the same as the husband and wife; the yielding of one's own free will to holy authority. Those women who have an unseared conscience will give short-shrift to metaphorical conjecture. Clothed in humility they will not respect a man who shuns authority, but the one who takes authority. Each person who reads this can be judge of that. Post Reply
Alligator View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 4 Nov, 2019 07:47 PM You can hyphenate YOUR name, you are smith, marrying Mr. Jones...so smith-jones is OK. However, if the man is to follow your pattern, his name would be first, therefore, Jones-smith. The only reason I can see for this tremendous desire to have the man change his name is that you are a follower of Gloria Steinem... the feminist activist. No matter how badly women want to rule a company, a family or a husband, that is pure feminism and does not work in the reality of marriage. Post Reply
Alligator View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 4 Nov, 2019 10:03 PM only six states currently allow either partner to do a name change under equal conditions when they marry. If you are a man looking to take your wife's name, you must live in Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York or North Dakota. Post Reply
View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 14 Apr, 2020 09:40 AM Because for most of history the woman became the man's property at marriage. That's why the father gives her away at the wedding. Or sells her for a bride price. It was more like an adoption. Even if she was older than him. Slaves also aquired their master's name. The tradition continued until about 1980 or so when women didn't like the idea of "belonging" to their husband. Not that I advocate unjust slavery or forced marriage, just stating the facts. Post Reply
View Profile History	Changing Last Names Posted : 16 Apr, 2020 02:06 PM I am open to changing my name to my wife's name if she felt very attached to it. Post Reply

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