Let's see. Could it be the folks who compiled the Bible, and had preserved it intact since that time?? That would be the Catholic Church.
As far as the New Testament goes, the VERY early Christians had begun using what today is considered the New Testament. Then in 393 a group got together and canonized it. They also ADDED books into the Tanakh...the Hebrew Bible. Books the Jews NEVER considered scripture. Took Luther to undo that mistake. You have to ask yourself:
1.) At what point between approx 100 AD and 400 AD did the group that later became the rcc hijack Christianity onto a road that led to corruption, greed, heresy, debauchery, murder, intimidation, power hunger, and brain washing (the effects of the last can still be seen as evidenced on this thread)?
2.) Why did the rcc organization decide to overrule the Jews on their own Bible and inject uninspired works into it for us to digest?
REFERENCE:
“The term Hebrew Bible is a generic reference to books of the Bible, originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, and of uncontroversial canonicity. The term closely corresponds to contents of the Jewish Tanakh and the Protestant Old Testament, but does not include the deuterocanonical portions of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Christian Old Testament.”
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible
“The writings attributed to the apostles circulated amongst the earliest Christian communities. The Pauline epistles were circulating in collected form by the end of the first century AD. Justin Martyr, in the early second century, mentions the “memoirs of the apostles,” which Christians called “gospels” and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament.
A four gospel canon (the Tetramorph) was in place by the time of Irenaeus, c. 160, who refers to it directly.[14] By the early 200’s, Origen may have been using the same 27 books as in the modern New Testament, though there were still disputes over the canonicity of Hebrews, James, II Peter, II and III John, and Revelation (see also Antilegomena).[15]
Likewise by 200 the Muratorian fragment shows that there existed a set of Christian writings somewhat similar to what is now the New Testament, which included the four gospels and argued against objections to them.[16] Thus, while there was a good measure of debate in the Early Church over the New Testament canon, the major writings were accepted by almost all Christians by the middle of the second century.”