Now that's a particularly fine gem of scholarship.
Have you read the writings of the early church fathers? You know you can almost completely reconstruct the New Testament from them. Closely guarded secrets.. Sheesh.
Who was responsible for collecting, codifiying, preserving, protecting and copying the Bible - in Greek and Latin. What was the language of literate people then and earlier? And how many translations into the vernacular were in circulation from the seventh century on - during this "closely guarded secret" days?
When was the printing press invented? What was the first book Gutenberg printed in 1454 - which quickly sold out of its first printing.
"Up until Martin Luther, the bible was a closely guarded secret."
"it was an effect of God power, that the Papacy should have remained, in the first place, sacred baptism; secondly, the text of the Holy Gospels which it was custom to read from the pulpit in the vernacular tongue of every nation..." (Martin Luther)Even Martin Luther disagrees with you. Where do you get this stuff?
Ah yes, and all written in a language not legible to the masses.