A Muslim Questions and a Christian answers in the street HD
WHAT DOES QURAN SAY ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE? WAS THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE CHANGED ACCORDING TO QURAN? 1. Christians had their Scripture in their possession at the time of Muhammad (Surah 2:89, 2:41, 2:101, 4:47 and 7:157) 2. Christian Scripture is the word of God along with Quran and no distinction be made among them (Surah 2:136, 3:84, 4:136) Application of this truth in the Quran is seen in the following instances. 3. If Mohammad was in doubt he suppose to ask the Christians/Jews who are reading their own Scripture (Surah 10:94) 4. Christians should judge by what is in their own Scripture (Surah 5:47) If the Christian Scripture was corrupted points 2-4 does not make sense. In addition, 5. No one can change God’s word (reminder) (Surah 15:9, 18:27) and Christian Scripture is word of God (reminder) (Surah 16:43, 21:7, 21:48, 21:105, 40:53-54) The above 5 points indicate the authority, inspiration and preservation of the Christian Scripture. There is no mention in the Quran that the Christian Scripture is corrupted or not trust worthy, but affirms its authority. If I was in your shoes believing that Quran is God’s word as Muslim, I would accept what Quran says about the Christian Scripture than any other testimony. IS THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE CORRUPTED? Manuscript of the New Testament (from late 1st Century or early 2nd Century until the printing was invented) confirms that we have the same message in our Bible that we posses now. We have over 5,780 Greek manuscripts (Averaging 200 pages per manuscript, 1.3 million pages of hand written copies), over 10,000 Latin manuscripts, and 5-10,000 manuscripts in other languages for the New Testament! No ancient literature has this many manuscripts. We also have over one Million quotations from early Christian writings and commentaries, which could produce multiple New Testaments from this alone even if no Biblical manuscripts could exist now. Islamic Scholar Abdullah Saeed wrote “Since the “authorized” Scriptures of Jews and Christians remain very much today as they existed at the time of the Prophet, it is difficult to argue that the Quranic references to Tawrat and Injil were only to the “pure” Tawrat and Injil as existed at the time of Moses and Jesus, respectively. If the texts have remained more or less as they were in the seventh century CE, the reverence the Quran has shown them at the time should be retained even today. Many interpreters of the Quran, from Tabari to Razi to Ibn Taymiyya and even Qutb, appear to be inclined to share this view. -“The charge of Distortion of Jewish and Christian Scriptures”, Muslim World; Fall 2002, vol. 92, Issue 3/4, p.419) If you say that our Christian Scripture is changed, I would like you to produce me at least one manuscript evidence from among these thousands of manuscripts which say, for example, that Jesus did not die or He is not the Son of God or He did not rise from dead or He is not the only way to God or God is not called ‘Father.’
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