Atheists & Agnostics

The Greeks didn't get circumcised. It's possible those gospels were authored in Greek by a Jew, but at the very least it shows they were trying to appeal to a Greek audience. Paul was recruiting almost exclusively gentiles which consisted of the Greeks and the Romans. The Jews were a conquered people and didn't have much money compared to those two groups. So Paul was no doubt bringing in large sums of cash compared to other 1st century church leaders. This gave him far more influence over the direction of early church dogma and policy which was moving from a sect of Judaism to something completely different. It's just another nugget that shows Paul had a huge influence on the development of the early church and he took it in a radically different direction. Paul never met Jesus. He claimed he had a hotline to the holy ghost. There's lots of evidence that there were serious divisions between Paul and the real apostles. At best Paul was a huckster and an opportunist. At worst he was a Roman agent sent to take what was seen as a seditious movement in a direction that favored the Romans.