Paul and his Traducers 
'Christ or Paul?'

        The opposition and misrepresentation which marked the 
course of the apostle Paul's ministry have never died down, and 
today among Christian people many hard, biassed and untrue 
things are said against this servant of Christ.

        Our sub-title 'Christ or Paul?' is the quintessence of 
prejudice and ignorance; we only use it in order to show its 
untruth.  The words 'Christ OR Paul?' imply that Paul set 
himself up in opposition to Christ and that his doctrine is a 
substitute for the doctrine of Christ.  Let the apostle speak for 
himself, and upon the testimony of his own words let both the 
apostle and his traducers be judged:

'Was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of 
Paul?  I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and 
Gaius; lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name' 
(1 Cor. 1:13-15).

'But we preach Christ crucified' (1 Cor. 1:23). 'Who then is 
Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed?' 
(1 Cor. 3:5).

'I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase.  So 
then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; 
but God that giveth the increase' (1 Cor. 3:6,7).

'Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and 
stewards of the mysteries of God' (1 Cor. 4:1).

'Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ' (1 Cor. 11:1).

'The Head of every man is Christ' (1 Cor. 11:3).

'We preach NOT OURSELVES, but Christ Jesus the Lord' (2 Cor. 
4:5).

'We have this treasure in earthen vessels' (2 Cor. 4:7).

'Now then we are ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor. 5:20).

'Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the 
power of Christ may rest upon me' (2 Cor. 12:9).

'Since ye seek a proof of CHRIST speaking in me' (2 Cor. 13:3).

        We have limited ourselves for the time being to a few 
passages in 1 and 2 Corinthians.  If we quoted nothing further, 
these statements of the apostle in his letters to one church only 
would be sufficient to set aside as biassed and untruthful the 
insinuation contained in the words 'Christ or Paul?'  In the 
epistles Christ speaks through Paul, the latter being His 
ambassador, His minister.

C.H.WELCH