From accounts of attitudes of Christ's followers in Judea, and later Manichaean sources we know that early true followers of Yeshu did not accept the Pauline School's New Testament as authentic. The Gnostic Manichaean's said:

"We have proved again and again, the writings are not the production of Christ or of His apostles, but a compilation of rumors and beliefs, made, long after their departure, by some obscure semi-Jews, not in harmony even with one another, and published by them under the name of the apostles, or of those considered the followers of the apostles, so as to give the appearance of apostolic authority to all these blunders and falsehoods."[1]

These writings of Paul's do not mention much of Jesus or of James and Peter except in a negative light. Paul tells us a few things about Yeshu, but not much. The Acts and Gospels produced later by his school mention Peter and James only in negative condescending terms, and present a made-up miracle Christ whose words are distorted and his acts fantasized. Paul openly opposed all the original followers of Yeshu, especially Peter, as he says in Galatians:

 
"But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed" [2]

Paul's New Scripture

During the first few years, the Pauline Christianity School just used the epistles of Paul. After having their request to get the Nazorean scriptures rejected, they were forced to produce their own. They eventually made up the New Testament:

“As for those who had given a favorable answer to the Romans they came together and took counsel as to how to replace the Gospel, seeing that it was lost to them. Thus the opinion that a Gospel should be composed was established among them. They said: "the Torah consists only of narratives concerning the births of the prophets and of the histories of their lives. We are going to construct a Gospel according to this pattern. Everyone among us is going to call to mind that which he remembers of the words of the Gospel and of the things about which the Christians talked among themselves when speaking of Christ."