I know there are fake Qurans (e.g Furqan) but I was wondering if there are fake bibles as well?

Question

This question has nothing to do with either religion. It's just a question to know whether there are any...
And I am sorry if this will offend anyone in any way.

Please understand the question...
I just heard and received e-mails about Furqan which this is said to be a fake Al-Quran.
I didn't mean to say the holy Al-Quran is fake...

Plus... this question is also a part of researching...
Just wanted to know from other people's answers...

Answer 1

Never any offense to question the Bible...God Himself invites us to challenge preconcieved notions and ask questions. Thank you for asking!

There are many "translations" of the Bible which are incorrect, or that use questionable methods of translation, mostly to change passages to agree with their particular faith.

The most notorious of these is the New World Translation, used by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (the JW's.) Another is Joseph Smith's translation of the KJV, used by the RLDS church.

Many others are out there, but these two stand out in my mind.

Answer 2

All Bibles contain the same 'essense', so to speak. Whereas one might say (picking a verse at random here, Mark 1:3):

"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." - King James Version

Another would write it:
"The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;" - Bible in Basic English

While yet another:
""THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS: 'PREPARE THE WAY OF ADONAI, MAKE HIS PATHS STRAIGHT.'" - Messianic Renewed Covenant

And one more:
"Thunder in the desert! Prepare for God's arrival! Make the road smooth and straight!" - The Message

Yet, they all proclaim the same concept no matter how it is written.

There are, however, not exactly 'fake' Bibles, but rather, Bibles that have been reworded incorrectly, so they reflect the belief of the denomination that published them. The most notorious of them are the Jehovah's Witness Bible. While, in a time of need, it would still serve to 'get the point across' to someone who already knows the Bible, it is reworded to deny the basic fundaments of the Christian faith: it does not acknowledge Christ as being God on earth, nor does it acknowledge that He is worthy of prayer.

Best example is of John 1:1
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." - KJV

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god." - New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness Bible)

There is also the Deuterocanon and the Apocrypha. We Protestants feel that, although there is much wisdom in there, they are not inspired or completely accurate, and hence, are to be taken with a grain of salt when read. These, however, are not Bibles in of themselves, but rather, extra-Biblical writings that occur during the events in the Bible.

There are also the Gnostic Gospels. These are books written well over 200 years after the last Apostle, John, had died, and tell a different story of Jesus, one that is completely contrary to the Biblical and Historical Jesus, and has more mystic and cryptic undertones, promoting the concept that Jesus said that: man is saved by realizing everything he sees is fake, all things that are natural and tangible are evil, that God is really Satan, and the serpent in Eden is really the Holy Spirit. The only copies that remain of the Gnostic writings are highly fragmented, and in the blanks, people have vivid imaginations as to what belongs in there (consider one example: Jesus *blank* Mary on the *blank* - this is usually interpreted by Gnostics as "Jesus kissed Mary on the lips", though the surrounding text does not imply such. It would be equally valid to assume it says, "Jesus touched Mary on the shoulder" or somesuch). These also, are not Bibles, but a collected work of 'gospels' ("good news" ie books that proclaim the life of Jesus). These are completely rejected by all groups of Christianity except the Gnostics.

There are also other 'testaments' ("promise/covenant"), and these include the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint's "The Book of Mormon" and the Unification Church's "Divine Principles". These two proclaim Jesus came and spoke to their church founders, giving them a new understanding of what was already in the Bible, and gave them new ideas to follow... a sort of, "explaining what God really meant to say way back in the beginning". These are rejected by the whole of Christianity, except by their respective denominations.

If it's a Christian Bible, it will be, at its most simplistic level, the same as any other Christian Bible. Anything outside of it is to be questioned and discerned, accepted or rejected, on a case-by-case level.

Answer 3

The books that currently make up the Bible were all decided by a council of the whole church of the time, under Constantine, the Emperor who made Christianity the official religion of Rome. But there were many other books that were already in circulation which were not included in the final text. Things like the Gospel of Thomas which are readily available on the net. Some of them were rejected because they were heretical and some because they were obviously later accretions, not recorded from witnesses. Thomas is an interesting document of the Wisdom tradition written in the style of, say the Book of Proverbs. It's not a story like the Gospels we know today, just a string of sayings or notes, like a Powerpoint presentation. Many of them are familiar and include saying of Jesus found in the surviving Gospels.

Answer 4

I hope u'll not be offended when I say it's better if u verified first .....if u did , u would know that furqan is a synonym of Kuran , e.g. Furqan = Kuran . Kuran didn't be faked and proof is clear : there's only one Kuran , all over the world , u can't find any difference , even a vowel . what's funny is that we , muslims , considering that Old and New Testament , unluckily , were faked ( Luke , John , ....) , but I didn't see any muslim here , ask or doubt about this ...... why ?

Answer 5

The holy book 4 Islam is AL-QURAN n there is no other fake qurans! 4 sure the bible facts has been changing n changing as it has more than 50 authors! Think 4 urself

Answer 6

well brother u are so ignorant that u post a question even without researching something.

quran and furqan mean the same thing - 'critereon to judge betwen right and wrong'

may Allah forgive u for lying in broad daylight.

Answer 7

Correction...Qur'aan doesn't have a fake copy it's the only book that hasn't been faked or touched in any word.
our prophet & the old muslims protected it so well.
go & do some researches & if u need more links just let me know.
may allah forgive u for what u said.
but it was a good question.

Answer 8

Ace please mail me on what bases is the quran fake?

Quran is the Truth and if you can prove it that it is fake then prove it mail me i will prove to you it isnt

Answer 9

The Book of Mormon...

Answer 10

The fake bible is called....the Qur'an