How Does Dancing Violate God’s Instructions Concerning Purity?

Immodesty: God’s Word teaches that women are to dress in modest clothing which become women professing godliness – 1 Timothy 2:9-10. Describing his dancing establishment the General Manager of the “Amnesia” stated, “People have been known to get, shall we say, rather uninhibited at these parties. Not that that’s necessarily bad or anything. Here, partial or full nudity is a plus – this is South Beach, after all.” (The Columbus Dispatch, October 14, 1995, Columbus Ohio)

While all dances may not go to this extreme, immodesty is a characteristic of the modern dance.

Drugs: The same General Manager had this to say about drugs, “And as far as booze, absolutely. But only in plastic cups, and no beer bottles. You want drugs? Okey-Dokey. But if you get busted, baby, you’re on your own.” (The Columbus Dispatch, quoted above).

Dancing is sexually oriented: Ellen Switzer in the Ladies Home Journal, November 1981 states, “Sex does not have to conclude with orgasm to be satisfying. Sex therapist report that touch is often an end in itself. So too, is kissing, even dancing. These sexual activities can be—”

The Latin dance “Lambada” is described as, “It is a close dance, with male and female partners entwined around each other, grinding their hips together— This is about the closest you can get to having sex without actually doing it.” (The Herald-Citizen, Cookeville, TN, March 15, 1990)

The modern dance violates God’s will for man. In Galatians 5:19-21 Paul identifies the works of the flesh which can keep man out of the kingdom of God. One of these works is lasciviousness. This term is defined by Thayer in his Greek lexicon as, “Wanton (acts, or) manners, as filthy works, indecent bodily movements, unchaste handling of males and females.” The lexicon of Arndt and Gingrich defines lasciviousness as: licentiousness, which is defined as, “Lacking legal or moral restraint, disregarding sexual restraints.” There is no doubt that the modern dance which is engaged in today fits the definition of lasciviousness and is condemned as a work of the flesh. To substantiate the lascivious nature of the modern dance monitor the dance programs on television.