That's the rub. Can anyone here, with a straight face, actually believe that rulers and powerful, literate men would not change a few lines here, take out a few lines there to, i don't know, maybe keep peasants in line a little better? Make their lives and their progeny's lives easier down the road? Keep women and slaves in line with Godly mandate? out of all the self serving, backstabbing, lying, cheating, double dealing that all politicians/rulers are into they said "Nah, we better leave these stories untouched before distributing to the masses". Church leaders were like bump that giving to the church line up to a full 10% and we're in. We'll even endorse holy wars, mark your political enemies as heretics and later on charge any especially mouthy bitches as witches for you at no extra charge.
Maybe there was a divine message. But if you think for one minute the original was unsullied by the men disseminating the message, you are a fool. Just look at today's politicians trying to erase that slavery happened or banning children's books about 2 male penguins raising a chick.