There is a common lie that Christians are propagating regularly. It is used to defend someone they like when they choose to believe a person is a good person. That saying is "you do not know His heart", however, they are comfortable defending someone as good while saying no one can know someone's heart. If someone believed we cannot know a person's heart then they had better not declare anyone as good. The truth is that born again believer have Christ living in them Who shows us a person's heart through the scriptures.
God lives in me and has commanded me to evaluate the heart of a man. If you really believed we cannot know a person's heart then you would not be defending someone whose heart you do not know. God tells us in His word what to look for to see if someone is authentic or a deceiver.
Matthew 7:15-20 "15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them."
Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
1 Corinthians 2:14-16 "…14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.…"
The good man with a godly heart will have the fruit God has spoken of in Galatians. This fruit is Spiritually discerned and any born again believer can see it. They can also discern if someone is lying and not at all what they claim. We do not walk around blinded to the character of a man, God shows us.
If one really believes that we cannot see the heart of a man then they would never judge that Hitler was evil. What are they looking at that makes them think he was evil, it was his actions that show us his heart.
When a person lacks the fruit of the Spirit, they will produce actions in concert with the heart. When a man has the fruit their actions will reflect the love of Christ in all the fruit.
Bottom line: God said "you shall KNOW them by their fruit, these things are Spiritually discerned.
If anyone says "you do not know someone's heart" while declaring that person a good person they have just violated their own principle of pretending to know the heart of the person they like to believe is good.
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