Oh man.......that opens a can of worms that probably shouldn't be opened......
OSAS.....that allows you to have a "good time" without feeling guilty.....I'm beginning to like protestantism more and more as these pposts go on!!!!!
Now all I have to do is completely deny my accusative conscience....that inner voice that says "you are married, don't even think about it"...or perhaps that nagging voice which says "I know that you'd like to have that.....no one would ever find out about it, but it belongs to someone else....
If I knew that I could pull all the shenanigans that I wanted to, and have no guilt at all....WOW....that staid, old, Catholic church....what do they know?????
So you equate the phrase *good time* with sinful behavior?
A person with a regenerate spirit and a renewed mind of Christ would not automatically equate the two.
Projection sure is an interesting thing....
What is meant here is evicting false guilt based on superstition and replacing it with a realistic assessment, based on God's word, of how we should live. People who have lived under systems where man-made rules have trumped core principles such as love and truth often have substantial issues with false guilt. One of my Catholic relatives in the Chicago area has evolved an elaborate system of good luck practices that closely resembles voodoo. I wish I were making this up. She threw water at my children when they were young, hoping that would count as baptism, didn't trust the whole Baptist "trust God" approach. We love this person, but would never want to live in that kind of spiritual darkness. God doesn't want any believer to miss out on the myriad gifts of His joy and blessing that belong to us through our redemption in Christ, over false guilt. There's enough real guilt to deal with as it is, and by God's grace we can account for those things in our life that need to be fixed. We work at that. But we do not surrender to imagining ourselves to be better than God at finding sin. There is liberty in Christ. That's just good doctrine.
Peace,
SR