DANCING IS UNCHRISTIAN
Some religions like Roman Catholicism allow social dancing between men and women
though Christ warned that to deliberately excite lust was a very serious sin and
one is better dead than committing it. He said that simply looking at a woman
lustfully was adultery and as bad as it spiritually and significantly, he never
said anything about doing harm because of that desire. It was the desire itself
he had the problem with. Catholicism makes many concessions and changes to the
gospel to court popularity.
The Church of Christ booklets, Shall We Dance? And A Teenager’s Answer To “Shall
I Go to The Prom?” show that never does the Bible allow men and women to dance
together or gay men to dance together. The Church observes that poise and
fitness are no excuse for dancing and sees that men are more easily and quickly
sexually aroused than women. The Bible mentions people dancing without making a
judgement. David and the prodigal son danced by themselves. The New Testament
condemns something called aselgia which means lasciviousness or causing lust in
others (Galatians 5:19-21; Jude 4). By implication it bans dances and discos for
there bodies are close together and the interaction between the sexes leads to
arousal. The Bible cannot put and does not need to put a “Thou shalt not” before
us on every sin.
1 Timothy 2:9 states that women must be modest and shameful. A woman that is
caressed by a man for dancing is hardly shameful.
It is important too that in Galatians 5 and 1 Corinthians 6 that sexual sin is
put at the head of the lists of sins as if it is the worst. In the latter, Paul
says that unlike all other sins the person who has sex outside marriage sins
against his own body which is so terrible for the body is a temple of the Holy
Spirit. This plainly infers that other sins such as being mean are not as bad
though they endanger the body by making enemies and destroying mental and
physical health through stress. This plainly infers that fairly harmless and
responsible sex is a worse sin though it does less damage than many of the sins
that are supposedly outside the body and which do not desecrate the temple of
the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit detests sexual sin above all sin. He would
rather see you committing a sin that brings destruction on you by making enemies
who set out to kill you. This then forbids sexy clothes and dancing and anything
that might lead to the sin of masturbation for the worst sin is the sin you have
to take the most precautions against.
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How to Fight the Religious Right, Brian Elroy McKinley
http://elroy.net/ehr/fighttheright.html
BIBLE VERSION USED
The Amplified Bible