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I don't intend to offend anyone,i'm just curious.I know lots of muslims who name their children "Mohammed" or "Muhammad"(in French) and for girls Khadija(prophet Mohammeds wife) and the Qu'ran says that they're not supposed to represent prophet Mohammed in anyway possible.Please explain to me,i don't want any racist or pointless answers!
A deeper thought. You may have noticed that most parents go hmmm distinctly gooey - extra loving and caring - at childbirth. Particularly with the first one. It’s a hormone thing, you can watch the same effect right through the primate line and many other mammals. Extended care of the young is a distinctive success factor for the mammals. Even for non-parents, the instinct to protect the young is very strong – consider public outrage and inclination to take the law into their own hands as a response to paedophilia, or your reaction to a child falling off a bike. The desire/need to protect, I would suggest, is so strong that it is reflected in the way we name our babies – and the tradition is an ancient one. Our ancestors faced two very regular threats, warfare and disease. Have you noticed how many cultures across the East and the West most popular given names reflect the concept of protection (of the individual or the community) in some way. The most common – back to 23BCE – in China is Li, after a famous minister who first introduced laws against crime (there is also a province with the same name). In my earlier comment, I noted the protective virtue of a new ruler’s name. For Christians and Muslims ancestors, the same virtue would logically flow from naming a child after someone most prominently associated with divine-inspired new order. Notice the meaning of the word ‘order’. When we think of ‘new order’ we think of new regime; the original usage is, of course, the opposite of disorder. Hmmm.
I've taken it to be an honourific, like having your uncle or aunt's name for a middle one. I agree with Ty that your ref is to imagery, not naming. Religionisgood's Spanish - and Portuguese - one is traditional in those cultures, whereas English and French often use Christian as a forename, and of course unlike Islam the Christians had another 12 to choose from. Another interesting observation is that when the Normans took over from the Anglo-Saxons, names like William suddenly became popular and many of the previous popular royal names disappeared quickly. You can see how in many countries, e.g. Russia, a new leader's name is suddenly the best thing to have - it protected you from being directly associated with a recent past that was now out of favour. Even in Victorian through to 1970's Britain, it was difficult to get a job if you didn't share the same religion as your employer. That often condemned people to poverty in a rural 'community'. The same effect caused migrations of many groups across Europe, and I don't suppose European laws have entirely eradicated it, as people are often fearful at using the law to gain entry to a job where they may still face prejudice...
I was studying Arabic in the Quran and i saw this phrase in plain Arabic:ويبقى فقط أحدهما محمد, انه سيكون واحدا فقط (There shall only be one Mohammed,and he'll be the only one) i don't i got the Arabic-English translation wrong,i do speak fluent Arabic but i asked an Arab friend just to be sure.
The name Jesús is common in Spanish speaking countries. Of course, English speaking families who name their children "Joshua" are technically naming them after the Biblical figure "Jesus", since Joshua is closer to the Aramaic and Jesus is just a Greco-Roman translation of the name.
I pratice Catechism in France and i don't know any Catholics who'd dare name their children Jesus.
I know plenty of Christian's who have a son named Jesus, or a Christian with the name Jesus....
They're talking about making images and idols. Perhaps you've got your translation wrong?
Don't Christians sometimes name their child Jesus?
