Over time and millennia, scholars and have had to deal with problems and challenges in recreating a portrait of Jesus from a historical viewpoint. There are many varying writings, disputed sources and versions, not to mention the fact that the majority if not all of the narratives are second party accounts and subject to textual criticisms of the New Testament, which invariably causes finding a complete and unexpurgated text about a historical Jesus a difficult task for non Christian scholars.
The R. Bultmann statement found in Survey of the New Testament, pg. 122 which reads “a characteristic line of reasoning is that since Christians believed in the deity of Jesus, they justified their belief by concocting stories…” shows how some who study