The Romanized testaments that survive to the modern era are designed to present a liberal version of theology, then.

The goal of the Catholic Church and subsequent Protestant movements was to reform the Ancient World into one accepting of aristocratic governments. And the modern Bible exists as a tool to reinforced social norms consistent with that way of life. You can put certain spins or emphases on particular verses or parables in order to extract alternative messages, but at the end of the day this book has been curated to reinforce a liberal reformist self-deterministic social philosophy. And that’s exactly what church organizations have pursued for the last five centuries, at the very least.