If this post is a little long bare with me.
I am a Fundamentalist too, guilty as charged. I actually hail from an Independent Baptist, KJV-Onlyist crowd that sings traditional hymns from the Hymn Books. We use every instrument but the drums (refraining from all percussion and hard-sounding beaty-type instruments), and my Pastor holds this point of view that the drums directly affect a person's emotions to causes them to have thoughts and feelings that are not pleasing to the Lord (in effect, the exaltation of one's self or getting excited for the wrong reasons and he said we do not need to encourage ungodly thoughts wherever possible). So we use the milder instruments in worship services, the more peaceful-and-gentle-sounding ones: Piano, Guitar, Organ...we do actually allow all kinds of flutes and trumpets but sadly, no one in our congregation knows how to play any kind of flute or trumpet so any flutes and trumpets that enter in come from the outsiders, from people visiting our church. The flute and trumpet is usually brought in by travelling temporary-stay guest singers, choirs, and groups -- if we ever see any of those!
Looks like there was more of my kind of breed on here than I thought. I mean Fundamentalist when I say that, oh yeah, and Conservative too. I'm Conservative as well.
But I am going to have to agree with one of our previous posters, in that the Bible is not all fundamentalist, not all conservative, and not all liberal. The Bible is all three, like a prism of color or a rainbow. By studying it I have found that pattern to be true:
1. God makes war in HIS righteousness and HE judges sin (conservative).
Revelation 19:11 -- And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
2. God also sends rain on the just and on the unjust and pardons us when we don't deserve it (liberal).
Matthew 5:45 -- That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Romans 9:15 -- For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
3. GOD's Word is Absolute (fundamentalist).
John 1:1 -- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Matthew 24:35 -- Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
His words not passing away is sound proof He is ABSOLUTE, they being always established so no one has the power to move them or affect them in any manner.
If all of this may seem like a contradiction then...
Ecclesiatses 3:1 -- To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
1 Corinthians 14:40 -- Let all things be done decently and in order.
A lot of fundamentalists believe that it is wrong to dance, period. In any form, anywhere. Perhaps some of you reading this do as well.
I have since then, thankfully, renounced the belief that all dancing is ungodliness because it is good to dance to the Lord. And perhaps only in that context is dancing ok. I say this due to my studies on King David and his warfare, how he danced before the Lord and how the Lord punished Michal Saul's daughter when she thought it was lewd and wrong and she despised him for that reason and told him to stop...the Lord shut her womb up really fast and she was not able to have children as a consequence (obviously the dancing pleased HIM and was right in HIS eyes).
As an Onlyist I am using the King James Version. Please follow along in these verses with me...
2 Samuel 6:14-23 -- 14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. 16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. 17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. 18 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts. 19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house. 20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself! 21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD. 22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour. 23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
When I say dance, I mean to the LORD, not in a worldly way. Not in a Satanic way. Not in a self-pleasing way or for one's own glory. And as for the kind/type of dance that was undergone, the Scriptures tell us so. King David "leaped" and there was "shouting" so it was a lively and a loud kind of dance. Then the King gives the context of the dance: "It was before the LORD." As for David being almost naked as he was (he was only wearing a linen ephod, the rest of his skin was all bare and exposed, which was why Michal was appalled -- if we saw someone walking the streets in broad daylight only wearing a pair of underwear it would definitely strike a controversy, media coverage, and perhaps even the attention of the police), the mystery of why GOD allowed David to dance almost nude is beyond me, but not wrong if GOD so allows. Perhaps it was the underlying motive, and David's praise genuine from the heart. So I will not question the LORD my GOD in HIS wisdom.