Immoral Worldliness: Dancing
By Jesse Jenkins
September 7, 2008
- Dancing has always excited lust between men and women.
- Dances in the Bible:
- Religious enthusiam - II Samuel 6:14; Jeremiah 31:4; II Samuel 18:6; Exodus 15:20
- This kind of dancing is not condemned.
- Idol worship - Exodus 32:19
- This kind of dancing is condemned.
- To appease fleshly appetites - Matthew 14:6-7
- This kind of dancing is condemned.
- Religious enthusiam - II Samuel 6:14; Jeremiah 31:4; II Samuel 18:6; Exodus 15:20
- Passages that prove this kind of dancing is sinful:
- Galatians 5:19-21 - lasciviousness is talking about the kind of dancing under consideration here.
- Matthew 6:13 - dancing is not fleeing temptation
- I Corinthians 10:32
- I Peter 4:3
- Ephesians 4:19
- Romans 13:13
- II timothy 2:22
- I Thessalonians 5:22
- Philippians 2:15; Matthew 5:16
- I Peter 3:15 - how can you give a defense from the dance floor?
- What others say
- “Most juvenile crime has its inception in the dance hall either private or public.” - J. Edgar Hoover
- What Paul said again: Galatians 5:19-21