This is just plain incorrect . First , Paul was not an author of one of the gospels . While you are correct that Paul never ' met ' Jesus until after Jesus ' s death , two of the four evangelists those who wrote the four gospels were part of Jesus ' s inner circle the 12 apostles . You are also correct in that the gospels have some inconsistencies , but this is reasonable because they were written afrerwards and largely independent of each other . Also , the Catholic Church I ' m not sure about various Protestant denominations recognizes that despite being divinely inspired , the gospels were written by men who often make mistakes . There are also nonChristian primary sources that mention Jesus . As for attacking historians who investigate the life of Jesus , I find the argument ridiculous . Your point about the biases if historians may have been accurate prior to the 18 th century , but since then thousands of historians , Christian , or other have wrote on the subject . While there are major disagreements over what Jesus did , it has widely been accepted that he existed .