Oh goodness gracious me...
Look, one of the great achievements of christian civilisation was the preservation of classical literature after the fall of the Roman Empire. However they were a tad selective in what they chose to hang on to.
The art of writing was preserved, on the whole, by monks and christian scribes in the eastern Roman Empire. So naturally they translated the Bible more often than they translated Caesar's account of the Gallic Wars.
Take Suetonius for example: why did his "lives of the twelve Caesars" survive but not "lives of famous Roman whores" which would have been a great read?
So while I agree with what you say generally, you are stating the obvious a tad. It doesn't make the life of Christ as stated in the bible any more or less factually correct than Herodotus' account of the Persian wars.
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