My 2 cents worth: first of Genesis starts with garden story and "being like God knowing good and evil" in English version. After that, they were to "be like God" working 6 days and taking a day off. Eventually, it evolved into the laws of Moses that the people were to follow and be like "God". Then because the were Gods Children, they grew up in 'law", teachings or Torah knowledge to be Gods. John 10:34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are "gods"'?

So, like having laws and following the laws makes people into God-people rather than jungle monkey-people

In the only historically recorded census around that time, that of Claudius. People were actually asked to say put and not to travel on the census day. But then the census of Claudius can not be made to fit the time of the nativity, neither can the reign of Herod or any of the Roman governors. Plus not only does the history not match that given in the new testaments, but they do not even get the geography of the holy land correct. So that you can only conclude that they were written by people who were not there at the time, and had never been there at any time.