Is Paul is a liar?

Re 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

Can we find names of one or more of these false apostles in the Scriptures themselves? Who claimed to be an apostle? Who claimed not to be lying? Four times Paul swore that he was not lying. Is that not, in itself, a characteristic of liars? Paul himself stated in Romans 3:4 "Let God be true, and every man a liar."

The four passages in which Paul claims not to be lying, Romans 9:1-2, 2 Corinthians 11:27-31, Galatians 1:20, and 1 Timothy 2:3-7, are printed out below. I examine these passages to see if perhaps some of Paul's lies may be associated with these statements.

Ro 9:1-2 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

2Co 11:27-31 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

In these two passages Paul boasts of his concern for the church. I wonder if Paul's concern for the church is overrated? Don't those who really care just do the caring instead of talking about it?

Ga 1:20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

This third passage is in context of the Jerusalem Council. This Council directed the Gentile believers to the heart of the Torah with the four requirements repeated in Acts 15:20, 29 and 21:25. Paul said that they asked only that he remember the poor in Galatians 2:10 and went on in Galatians to downplay the Torah and may have actually cursed the Apostles. For a fuller discussion see Scott Nelson's chapter, Paul, a liar?!.

1Ti 2: 3-7 For this [is] good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For [there is] one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, [and] lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

This final statement by Paul that he is not lying comes with Paul's claim to be an apostle. I do not believe that this is a light matter in reference to "thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars" in Revelation 2:2! Again, Scott Nelson has a detailed discussion of Paul's claim versus reality in Paul, the False Apostle.

We must heed the warnings.

Joh 8:44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Re 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.