I just want to know what u think?

Question

is it wrong for a person who believes in GOD, and has accepted JESUS has their LORD AND SAVIOR, to go out dancing and drinking? is it wrong to go out with friends who do not serve GOD?

Answer 1

Be clear at your heart. Even if you do prostitution besides being a drunkard and a dancer and all that, so long as you do not think of harming others you have a place near God. No one can deny that to you. God prefers purity of heart to any of the human conducts.

Answer 2

If you are a Christian, then you are called to be a light. Jesus prayed for us in the Gospel of John and said that we are "in the world, but not OF it." If you participate in the works of darkness, you not only prove that it is more important to you than being a witness, but also you are excusing those around you that such behavior is OK. That is not being a light.

On the other hand, if you go to these parties and share the Good News of salvation with those who God leads you to, this is being a light in a dark place. But you need to do this with two or more strong Christians. If you are too weak for such a ministry, don't go. God will provide other avenues.

The only reason why people drink and dance and such is because they are empty inside. If Christ abides in you, there is no need for anything else to fill the loneliness and emptiness. Seek to fill voids, not pretend to be something you are not. Show them that Christ has filled you with joy overflowing. Go out with your friends and let the love of God spill over onto them.

Answer 3

Only if you're a life-hating cultist.

Read the Psalms: 104:15, God makes "wine which makes glad the heart of man."

God made the world good. It's good to be alive, it's good to be happy.

And BTW, the lovers in the Song of Songs weren't married.

Answer 4

According to the Bible, its not wrong to drink alcohol, but like everything else, it should be done in moderation. You shouldn't get drunk...scriptures say drunkards will not inherit God's kingdom.

Dance isn't wrong either. King David danced as did others in the Bible. But dancing provacatively or suggestively isn't a good idea.

Going out with friends who don't serve God is more of a conscience decision. It'll be more likely for their "worldly" views to rub off on you than it will be for your "Godly" views to rub off on them...especially if you're in a setting known to be conducive of drunkenness and loose conduct (such as a bar). For example, Dinah's friends may have been nice girls...fun to hang out with. But ultimately her friendship with those girls put her a setting where she met up with a man who violated her. It was an all around bad outcome because he ended up dead, her brothers ended up bringing shame upon their father's name because they killed him, and Dinah, even if she was madly in love with the guy, ended up without a husband and without her virginity.

Answer 5

God says nothing opposing dancing nor against drinking. He is opposed to drunkedness even though He is not against drinking.

Things that do harm to us, or others, are what God is against. Measure thngs in that way. If God has said something is a sin, then avoid it. If there is no sin attached, then use your Christian freedom.

Answer 6

2 Corinthians 6:14: " Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what fellowship do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what sharing does light have with darkness?"

Ephesians 5:15-20: " So keep strict watch that how YOU walk is not as unwise but as wise [persons], 16 buying out the opportune time for yourselves, because the days are wicked. 17 On this account cease becoming unreasonable, but go on perceiving what the will of Jehovah is. 18 Also, do not be getting drunk with wine, in which there is debauchery, but keep getting filled with spirit, 19 speaking to yourselves with psalms and praises to God and spiritual songs, singing and accompanying yourselves with music in YOUR hearts to Jehovah, 20 in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ giving thanks always for all things to our God and Father."

Proverbs 4:23: "More than all else that is to be guarded, safeguard your heart, for out of it are the sources of life"

King Solomon said eat, drink and be merry, but he was not talking about drinking parties as we know them today, for he also said...
Proverbes 21:17: "He that is loving merriment will be an individual in want; he that is loving wine and oil will not gain riches."

Ecclesiastes 3:10-14: "I have seen the occupation that God has given to the sons of mankind in which to be occupied. 11 Everything he has made pretty in its time. Even time indefinite he has put in their heart, that mankind may never find out the work that the [true] God has made from the start to the finish. 12 I have come to know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good during one’s life; 13 and also that every man should eat and indeed drink and see good for all his hard work. It is the gift of God.
14 I have come to know that everything that the [true] God makes, it will prove to be to time indefinite. To it there is nothing to add and from it there is nothing to subtract; but the [true] God himself has made it, that people may be afraid on account of him."

Answer 7

Hey, big- J died for your sins right? Don't make His sacrifice worthless. Go out and have a blast- don't worry about it. As long as you still have your Christianity club card, you're going to heaven. Isn't that the point?

Answer 8

Yes, nowhere does it say to be a Prude. If you shelter yourself in the name of God, where's your name? Know your boundries. Trust yourself. And always, never heed the words of others over your own. Yet, God will lead you places - sort of like realizing deja vu. One thing is for sure, God is always with us.

Answer 9

The dude said it right, first Baptists think dancing is evil for example, so it depends on your specific religion.

Answer 10

I think that depends on your denomination. I was raised Seventh Day Adventist, which frowned on all of the above.