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Originally Posted by Attila's Wife
The way I see it, the ONLY time this might be acceptable is if the wife's father is enormously wealthy, has no son to carry on his name (either through having had an UnGodly wife who bore him only daughters, or through his sons dying in war or by accident) and if he is unreasonably making this a condition of leaving his wealth to his son-in-law.
In this case, Colossians 3:20 applies:
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
So a hyphenated surname might be acceptable here - although of course, once the wife's father is dead and the funds have been transferred, the couple should revert to the husband's name.
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Originally Posted by Attila's Wife
I am sure you did not mean to contradict me, Frednekk, and so on this occasion I will forgive you. Had I wished to refer to Matthew 18:25, you may be sure that I would have done so.
Up until the completion of the marriage ceremony, a Godly woman owes obedience to her father and not her future husband. Colossians 3:20 is clear on this point. If her father wishes her to carry on his name - with or without one of these abominable hyphens - then she is bound to agree and to renege on that agreement during her father's lifetime would surely be not merely a sin, but economically foolhardy?
However, I feel that in these cases the solution is to combine the surnames, with the woman's father's name first, without the vile hyphen, as in Fotheringay Featherstonehaugh rather than the (frankly ludicrous) Fotheringay-Featherstonehaugh. The Fotheringay part can then be quietly dropped in everyday use, and take its rightful place as a middle name for the children.
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Thank you for dismissing my negligence, kind Sister Attila. It can be difficult at times after spending many years of my life with godless harlots to engage in worship with Righteous women.
Praise His Name!
Luke 15
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16)
"But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery." (Matthew 5:32)