That is for sure, Don.

Like you say, the Gospel writers cherry-picked (and edited) what information they were able to acquire in order to serve their own purposes. I think some of them were alive in Jesus' own time, though, and personally witnessed some of the events they report on...still that doesn't mean that what they wrote about it isn't without prejudice or various political agendas.

There were also a number of apocryphal writings from people in the early church which many at the time considered equally valid, but which were edited out of the officially sanctioned documents which became the Christian Bible. And there were power struggles within the Church throughout its history over all kinds of doctrinal issues. What we mostly hear now is the viewpoints of those who won those power struggles.