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When sharing the gospel with atheists, Darwinists and other unbelievers, we hear this line all the time. After all, it’s probably one of the most common reasons non-Christians give as to why they won’t put their faith in Christ. But who is the real hypocrite here?

• These people still go to work, though their workplace is filled with hypocrites.
• They still go to the movies, though Hollywood is filled with hypocrites.
• They still go to restaurants, though they’re filled with hypocrites.
• They still shop, though manufacturers and retail stores are filled with hypocrites.

Such people are hypocrites themselves because this issue of “hypocrites in the church” is nothing but a smokescreen to cover the real issue they don’t want to become Christians. They love their sin and don’t want to give it up. They also don’t want any deity watching them and telling them what to do. Instead of admitting these things, however, they hypocritically hide behind such statements as: “The church is filled with hypocrites” and “If there’s a God, I can worship Him just as easily on the golf course.”

In reality, these people are the biggest hypocrites of all because they think they are good enough to merit eternal life in heaven. Christians, on the other hand, readily admit that they sin and that their only hope of heaven is the imputed righteousness of Christ.

So the next time someone gives you the famous “hypocrites in church” objection, let them know that only one Person in history was not a hypocrite and that this Person suffered and died on the cross so they might be forgiven of their sins … including their wretched sin of hypocrisy.

In this age of the Internet, most people turn to Wikipedia for information. We use it ourselves from time to time. However, we’d like to emphasize that this online encyclopedia should be used with extreme caution, especially when looking up any topic touching on politics, religion or worldviews. Take, for instance, its article about “creationism”:

“Creationism is the religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in some form by a supernatural being or beings. However the term is more commonly used to refer to religiously motivated rejection of certain biological processes, in particular evolution, in favour of an interpretation of a creation myth as an explanation accounting for the history, diversity, and complexity of life on earth (the creation-evolution controversy).  In Christian sects such creationism is usually based on a literal reading of the creation myth found in the book of Genesis. Other religions have deity-led creation myths which are quite different.”

We’ve italicized certain phrases above to emphasize Wikipedia’s liberal, anti-biblical stance … and this is just in the first paragraph of a very long article. In contrast to what it calls the “creation myth,” Wikipedia describes evolution in a quite different way: “This powerful explanatory and predictive theory has become the central organizing principle of modern biology, directing research and providing a unifying explanation for the diversity of life on Earth.” In other words, biblical creation is a myth and evolution is true.

As the Conservapedia website quite correctly points out, Wikipedia “was initiated by two atheists: entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosophy professor Larry Sanger on January 15, 2001. Despite its official ‘neutrality policy,’ Wikipedia has a strong liberal bias.”

And that liberal bias, as you can well imagine, turns into a bias against a biblical understanding of history and the world around us. For a shocking account of nearly 200 instances of Wikipedia’s liberal and anti-Christian bias, check out this well-footnoted article at Conservapedia: http://www.conservapedia.com/Examples_of_Bias_in_Wikipedia.