My children used to roll their eyes at me regularly when instructed. When asked to do a job again came the eye-rolling. Did you know eye-rolling is a show of contempt?
When a person feels they cannot outright mock you they refrain from words and do it with their eyes.
If confronted with the contempt they would deny it, as though they don't know what you are talking about. Now the problem, in their mind, is you being "too sensitive" or "making up things that aren't there."
2 Peter 3:3
"Know this first of all, that in the last days' mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,"
Since it is impossible to prove someone rolled their eyes unless there is a camera that caught it, these manipulators can feel that they were not caught in their contempt by simply denying it.
Mockers and liars roll their eyes to show you how foolish you are with "plausible deniability", "who me? what did I do?"
When we see this it might be good to chuckle a little realizing what they are doing is on the level of a bratty five-year-old.
Mark 7:20-23
"And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Whatever the eyes do on the outside is what is in the heart. Rolling eyes of dismissiveness are contemptuous sin.
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