Biblical profundity

Subject: Biblical profundity 

Listening to biblical academics argue and disagree about the meaning of newly discovered scrolls purporting to reveal fresh aspects of the society who lived in the lands within the state of what we know as Israel and bound up in the teachings of the Old Testament, the arrival of Jesus and his influence on the local society one is struck by the Biblical conflation of all matters we call religious.

The descriptions taken from new discoveries paint a very different picture of the boy and the man Jesus. The surety of believers rests on the image of a son of god come down to mend our ways and give us new hope in following the diktat laid down in the Old Testament rule book. "Thou shalt not" is the guiding mantra for good social practice and in this guise there has been no better parenting of humankind. The rules with the caveat that to fail to follow has some very bad outcomes has created an alternative to the barbarism which was as prevalent then as it is now.
This is all well and good but the issue of the authenticity of these rules which is based on the reading of the bible, is continually challenged by further discovery. 
Does this matter. Are the teachings more important than their authenticity. Apart from the stick which lies behind the teachings, that of eternal damnation in hell, it also carries the carrot of heaven and a god who loves us. If as seems possible that the writings were fables which had conflicting stories to tell but, in the assembly of a book of faith, the censor already had his pen redacting the parts which went 'off piste' it all rather blurs the dynamic of God.
Was there a god or was there a philosophical movement which prescribed the ingenuity of man's wisdom, much as in Ancient Greece. 
Did the gods of 'fire' and 'earth' which define superstition not simply go through a reasoned metamorphosis which, due to its social practicality, caught on and further, through the art of books and publication found a niche in men's hearts.