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Is everything fun sinful?

Claim:  Everything that is fun is sinful! Possible response: If we are willing to be honest, we might agree that there are a lot of things that might be fun "at first" but ultimately lead to a sense of shallowness, emptiness, depression, and even misery.  If we are even more honest, we may have gotten a lot of our ideas of fun, such as drinking, partying, and sex from media and what others have done before us. We simply haven't tried any "other ways" and assume this is the only way to have fun.  To be in friendship with God doesn't exclude fun, but might suggest that there are other ways of enjoying these gifts. There are other beverages, there are other ways of celebrating, and there are proper ways of using God's designs like sex that may lead to greater fulfillment.  In these cases, I tend to think we are a lot more like one who has always lived in the dark claiming there is no such thing as light, rather than one who is tryin