A clergyman, Bishop Yaw Owusu-Ansah, is advising men not to force their wives to take their surnames.
The Accra Regional Overseer of the Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries said the act isnโt biblical.
According to him, nowhere in the Bible did God ask women to bare their husbandโs surname.
The renowned pastor said, he has combed through the entire bible and didnโt find it.
โI believe that from the days of Adam, and I have read through the whole Bible, there is nowhere that you will come across that Adamโs wife was Mrs. Adam neither Jacobโs wife was Mrs. Jacob neither Isaac, Joshua or Daniel.โ
โSo if we the Christians are practicing the same thing, then I believe that we have to apply everything from the beginning to the end. And you come to New Testament, I havenโt come across that Mathewโs wife was Mrs. Mathew or Johnโs wife was Mrs. John.โ
Bishop Yaw Owusu-Ansah thus asked men to be focused on building a life with their wives, either than changing names.
He insisted that there is a reason God put everyone in a particular family, and no one should attempt to change it.
โSo it is my view that if I marry you as my wife, I donโt need to impose my name on you because you come from a family and I believe that coming from a family, there is a reason why God put you and brought you out of that family.โ
โSo keeping that name doesnโt change anything if you are my wife. God told Abraham, Iโll make your name great. So God making my wifeโs name great, my daughterโs name great and my sisterโs name great, if you come and marry her, let her keep her name, and you also keep that name that you have and let us build a life together. Building lives together doesnโt change anything that because you didnโt put my name on you, you canโt be my wife.โ
He told Winston Amoah and Kojo Yankson on Joy FMโs Super Morning Show on Friday, May 20.