The ease of deception varies a lot. Even if one is able to fool many, one cannot fool all, and not forever.
It is difficult to overcome the intelligence and skepticism of others. However, there is one person who can be consistently deceived without any other person being aware of it.
That person is oneself. One can deceive oneself with ease and without much impediment. Nobody is immune to this. It is a matter of free will coupled with the weaknesses of human psychology.
Because we do not have such insight into any other people, we can effectively close our mind to certain aspects of ourselves without anyone ever knowing. We have complete deniability, or so we think.
Psalms 7:10
The wickedness of sinners shall be brought to nought: and thou shalt direct the just: the searcher of hearts and reins is God.
God has complete and perfect knowledge of all.
While we cannot perceive God with our senses, we can rationally know this and it is possible to be closer to God in the soul. However, it is a wonder that we spend so much effort to concern ourselves with how others perceive ourselves, but we do not act like we know that God, the all powerful all knowing creator of all, is watching. That is the source of the deception: we deny God exists.
It is a fool who does something in sight of others, with knowledge that others see, and then denies doing it. The only two recourses are to call the others liars or to accept what one has done. But this is what we do when we deny our sins: we call God, The God of Truth, a liar.
This is why we admission of sins is good. There are some who say "I am a sinner, therefore I sin" as if that removed guilt (it does not). Admission of sins is an admission of one's need of grace and of desire for forgiveness and strength to not to sin again. We must remove our old nature, the nature into which we were born, and put on the new. That is, to put aside the flesh and live in the spirit:
Ephesians 4:24
And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.
Finding perfection in this world cannot be done absolutely, but the striving and the yearning can bring us closer to it. What joy is found at the end for the faithful servants who do the will of God?
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