“The Church is full of hypocrites.”
You will never meet a person, Christian or otherwise, who lives fully consistent with what they say they believe. Everybody is in some part of his life a hypocrite. If you believe that isn’t the case about a person you know, either you aren’t thinking deeply enough about the matter, or he’s got you fooled.
But there are Christians who largely live consistent with what Scripture teaches, while they occasionally sin. Unbelief might want to believe otherwise, but unbelief begins from a position of falsehood, and wants to see what it wants to see, no matter the truth. A wicked person naturally wants to drag everybody else into sin and misery with him, because otherwise he has to face up to God and his sin on his own.
Beyond this, there can never be such a thing as a “consistent unbeliever”. By virtue of living in a universe created by the one true God, any position of sin and unbelief creates contradiction and conflict, which can only be reconciled by faith.
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