"Do you think things such as pas de deux in ballet or wrong or not, especially between unmarried partners?"
This is a good question.
In ballet, a 'pas de deux' (means dance for two) is a dance duet in which two dancers, typically a male and a female, perform ballet steps together. The pas de deux is characteristic of classical ballet and can be found in many well-known ballets, including Sleeping Beauty & Swan Lake.
It becomes wrong if we think it wrong.
Romans 14:22-24 Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. But if you have doubts about whether or not you should eat something, you are sinning if you go ahead & do it. For you are not following your convictions. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.
Titus 1:15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled & unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds & their consciences are defiled.
I Corinthians 10:23-33 All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful, but not all things edify.
24Let no one seek his own
good, but that of his neighbor.
25Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without asking questions for conscience’ sake;
26FOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S, AND ALL IT CONTAINS.
27If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake.
28But if anyone says to you, “This is meat sacrificed to idols,” do not eat
it, for the sake of the one who informed
you, and for conscience’ sake;
29I mean not your own conscience, but the other
man’s; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?
30If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks?
31Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;
33just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit but the
profit of the many, so that they may be saved.
I Cor 6:12-20 Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything.
13“Food for the stomach & the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
14By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.
15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”
a 17But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
The Temple of the Holy Spirit
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Romans 12:1-8;
1 Corinthians 3:16-18)
18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body & your spirit.
"What do you think about this Bible verse:
1 Corinthians 7:1: "Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman?"
This is a good question.
The word touch in this context of sex & marriage & singleness means:
Greek word 'haptomai' properly, to fasten to, make adhere to, lay hold of someone; hence, specifically to fasten fire to a thing, to kindle, set on fire; of carnal intercourse with a woman, or cohabitation,
1 Corinthians 7:1.
It is good for a man NOT to touch a woman in such a way as to touch & lay hold of & adhere to one another to such an extent that sexual desires are enflamed or set on fire to the point where sexual intercourse occurs between the two that are now adhered to one another sexually.
That is why the next several verses clear up misconceptions of the Corinthian believers in their past sexual behavior. It is good to read the whole context of this starting back in I Corinthans chapter 5 and read all the way to the end of I Corinthians chapter 7.
Because of the temptation to touch a woman in such a way that it enflames sexual desire to the point of having sex, it is best to marry. God designed sex to be protected by the marriage covenant & then in marriage it is good to touch your wife in that way & the wife her husband. In marriage it is a good thing. (7:2-5).
One can touch a woman without it enflaming sexual desire. Jesus touched women in healing them & they touched Jesus. It had nothing to do with sexual desire. So back to your thoughts on dancing partners of male and female, being unmarried.
If if doesn't cause sexual desires to be set on fire but is appropriate between the two, then each conscience is clear as to intent.
What does the Bible say about dancing? Should Christians dance?
God’s High Call for Women
