Christians, who is superior, Christ or Paul?

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Christ came to retrieve the lost sheep of children of Israel.
And he confirmed the Commandments of Judaism, emphasizing
the first Commandment.

But Paul changed all that and declared Christ as son of God which
is totally against the ten commandments. Do you think Paul is
more reliable as an apostle than Christ was?

M J Iqbal
 
The teaching that Jesus is the SON of God in no way violates the first (You shall have no other gods before Me) or any other of the ten commandments.

Paul made it clear in his writings that he was a servant of Christ.
 
Paul also demonized the Jews and hated women. I'll take Jesus over Paul any day.
 
Jesus was know as "The Word" at creation. God spoke The Word and the world came into order.
After He became Jesus in the flesh, He was known as " The Living Word". He is also know in Christianity as Jesus, God the Son, too. Paul preached Christ crucified because Jesus saw Him on the road to Damascus and told him to do it.
 
I disagree with your first paragraph. As such, I think you have presented a false dichotomy.
 
Paul was a servant of Jesus Christ and as such, only spoke what the Holy Spirit told him to speak. Paul didn't change anything! That's just an excuse people use to mock God and reject Jesus!
 
Colossians 1:16-17 stresses Christ's role as creator; 'For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities - all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.' Everything was created by Christ, and not only that, but everything was created for Christ. This is God's perfect plan in action. Christ created the world as Deity, and then came to live in it as a man. He is the God-man, Messiah of Israel, and Savior to all who trust in His person and work.

John 1:1-3 quells the notion of some that Jesus Christ was used by the Father to accomplish His purposes, therefore He is inferior to the Father. John says, 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.' This statement makes it very clear that Jesus Christ is Deity. Some people (like the Jehovah Witnesses) try to argue that in the Greek, the emphasis is on Christ as a god, rather than GOD. But the truth is, the only way that Christ could be referred to in this context (in the Greek), is as GOD.

Jesus is Deity in His being. The verse can be literally translated, 'In the beginning, the Word already was... .' Jesus Christ already existed because He is God. He has a face to face, or equal relationship with the Father.

John says, '...All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being' (John 13). Everything that has existence came into existence through Jesus Christ. Again, God, the Father, was the source, God, the Son, was the agent through whom it was accomplished, and God, the Holy Spirit, was the one through whom the details were worked out. There is a relationship of equality that exists between the three agents of the Trinity, each carrying out different functions and responsibilities in perfect cohesiveness with one another. Creation is an act of Deity, and the very fact that Christ is the one who created indicates His prior existence and superiority.

This is the point of Hebrews 1:2. It is through Christ that God made the world. This proves that Jesus is superior to the prophets because they never created anything. Therefore, Christ's revelation is also superior to that of the prophets.

Jesus Himself testified to the fact that He shares equally in the glory of God; 'I glorified Thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which Thou hast given Me to do. And now, glorify Thou Me together with Thyself, ' Father, with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was' (John 17:4-5). Again, Jesus shares equally in the glory of God with the rest of the Trinity. However, when He came to earth, that glory was tabernacled within a human body, and veiled to an extent. But when He returned to the Father, He returned to the full display of glory that was His with the Father for all eternity.

We have only had glimpses of the glory of God in Christ in Scripture. One glimpse of this was when Paul was on the road to Damascus, and he was confronted by the resurrected Christ. Paul is blinded by the awesome display of glory. Another important aspect concerning the translation of Hebrews 1:3 is this: we have the first sentence translated, 'And He is the radiance of His glory... .' However, the original translation was 'And He is the radiance of the glory... .' Our translators have taken the word 'the' to mean 'His,' which is a possibility. But the reason it was written as it was is because 'the glory' applies not only to the Father, but to the Son as well.
 
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