Man Only Does Evil Because He is Evil

There is a psychological teaching going around, has been for years, that teaches if someone is mean, someone must have hurt them or they had a bad experience in their life.

Mean people say hurtful things. It is psychology and wrong that people only lash out because they are hurting. God never said we are given a pass for our past or how people treat us. He told us to bless those who curse us.

Evil people should be confronted, the reason we have more evil than ever before in our culture is because we showed grace to the wicked man while badgering the victim to forgive. The wicked man in our culture believes we are obligated to forgive him, that's why he keeps doing the same wicked things over and over again without remorse. Even if he gets worse because he is confronted, it only means that his heart has not been broken over his sinfulness.

Our culture has lied to us, pretending that no one is truly evil and anyone who calls them out on their mean behavior is the evil one. But notice something, they are willing to tolerate the evil in someone who is truly evil, but not willing to tolerate anyone who calls out the evil one.

Isaiah 26:10 "10 Though the wicked is shown favor, He does not learn righteousness; He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness, And does not perceive the majesty of the LORD."

Those who do mean things are showing their heart of contempt and need to be shown that heart. We don' automatically hurt others because we have been hurt. Often a humble loving person are better with others because we don't want to hurt others the way we have been hurt.

How we respond to being hurt reveals our heart, it does not shape it.

A kind and loving person will respond in shame when told they are sinning, or if they have been accused and are not sinning, they will not respond in rage, but rather want to discuss it to clear things up.

An evil heart refuses to discuss anything, they accuse, demean, mock and rage without any concern whatever that anything is cleared up. Being seen as "winning" is more important to the evil heart than truth, in fact these people have an hatred against the truth because it usually exposes their sinfulness.

John 3:20
"Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed."