Christians 'pretend' to be better than everyone else
All of us get turned off when we see hypocrisy. But first, let's define the term. A hypocrite is someone who lives inconsistently with the standard he holds up as the way he and others ought to live.

If that is what hypocrisy is, then wouldn't everyone be a hypocrite? Because none of us measures up to the way we know we ought to live. The word for that kind of routine failure is the word "sin." We all sin, but that doesn't make us all hypocrites---all hypocrisy is sin, but not all sin is hypocrisy. So, maybe hypocrisy isn't so much a failure to measure up to a standard, but, pretending to measure up to a standard, when you know well and good you don't.

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