PPete: So there was a rumor, big deal. I would be surprised if there wasn't rumors since Jesus taught that there were just two laws, love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Pretty shocking stuff to a Jewish mind....but to a Gentile , they were diggin' it.
There were plenty of rumors about Jesus too. (about foods and the washing of hands for instance) Jesus fired back when he said that it wasn't what went into a mouth that defiled a man, but what came out of it" - Wow!
I bet a lot of rumors followed that announcement. Paul is no different than Jesus.
Your dust up about Jesus and James and Peter being zealous for the Torah while Paul supposedly wasn't is much ado about nothing.
Again, (even leaving out 2 Peter references), the undisputable facts are :
1. We know Paul spent 15 days in Peter's house. James - Jesus' brother was also there for the discussions as well.
2. 14 years later, Paul comes to Jerusalem where he updates the other apostles on what he has been teaching the Gentiles and they "add nothing to him" and all extend the right hand of fellowship.
3. 1 Peter spoke about the the Substitutionary atonement, same as Paul did:
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed". 1 Peter 2: 24
1 Pet. 3: 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened [made alive] by the Spirit:
There have never been two gospels.... only one.
If your assertions are true, why didn't the other apostles add anything to Paul when he went to Jerusalem to check if the message he had been preaching was the same as the one the other apostles were preaching?