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Herman Ridderbos

The liberty given in Christ therefore is mirrored in the conscience not as liberty from moral decision, but as freedom from guilt before God. That which is characteristic of Christian liberty of conscience does not lie in the sphere of the forming of moral judgments, but in that of the religious relationship to God.
Herman Ridderbos, Paul: an outline of his theology [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982], 293