It looks like God could have used any method He saw fit to preserve his word.
Dead Sea Scrolls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scrolls
Besides, the Jews had preserved Scripture for far longer than anybody else with no *help* from The Catholic church.
The Catholic church taking credit for the preservation of Scripture is disingenuous at best. People are not as ignorant as the RCC would like to believe and see through the falsified history and blatant attempts at power grabs in claims like this.
the Jews did a wonderful job with old testament scriptures...However, the Catholic church took their scriptures, added the books of the new testament, combined them into what you now call the bible.....they have been the protector of our bible for about 2,000 years....thanks Catholics, without you all we'd have would be the torah and such....no Paul, James, Peter, Christ....just Moses and the boys....oh well