https://nouthetic.org/the-heart-of-the-matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-heart-of-the-matter Welcome to the Mid-America Institute for Nouthetic Studies, founded by Jay Adams. INS provides training and resources for biblical counseling. Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:13:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://nouthetic.org/the-heart-of-the-matter/#comment-985 Tue, 22 May 2012 14:21:19 +0000 https://www.nouthetic.org/blog/?p=792#comment-985 The ability to (admittedly imperfectly) intuit the intentions of others based on their behavior, demeanor, tone of voice, affect, etc, seems to be a pretty well established feature of normal human perception and cognition and a normal feature of interpersonal communication. We do it all the time, without even consciously trying.
Ought we to consciously avoid doing this? Does the fact that God comprehensively knows the human heart while we do not imply a positive obligation to try to not understand others more deeply than their outward appearance and behavior?

]]> https://nouthetic.org/the-heart-of-the-matter/#comment-984 Tue, 22 May 2012 13:56:23 +0000 https://www.nouthetic.org/blog/?p=792#comment-984 Could you define “heart”?

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