How is the Bible more accurate than the Quran?

Question

They both have some historocity about them. What makes one more "real" than the other?

Answer 1

Nothing. Both rest entirely on assertions that are unprovable.

Answer 2

Today, there are thousands of different versions of the Bible in circulation and the transcript has been freely translated from one language to another numerous times. According to Bible scholars themselves, the original scripture is no longer extant. It is nowhere to be found. We have no idea if what we are reading and implementing into our lives and belief system is, indeed, God's teaching.
The word "Bible" comes from the Koine Greek word "biblios" and it simply means the same as the word "book" in English. Nowhere in the Bible do we find the word "Bible." However, it is interesting to note the word "kitab" (Bible in Arabic) appears many times in the Quran, referring to the Bible and the People of the Book (Jews and Christians).
the King James "version" of the Bible is in English. There was no English language until the year 1066 AD when the Normans invaded the Saxxons. Therefore the English Bible cannot be anything like what any of the prophets spoke or understood, as it did not exist in their times.
For the New Testament we have a large number of Greek manuscripts, preserving many variant forms of the text. Some of them were made only two or three centuries later than the original composition of the books The King James Version of the New Testament was based upon a Greek text that was marred by mistakes, containing the accumulated errors of fourteen centuries of manuscript copying."
Just to offer a few of the many contradictions and errors of that which is being presented as the "Word of God" in the Bible I would like to quote the research of scholars of the Bible..
VERSES THAT CONTRADICT THEMSELVES

Genesis 6:3 and Genesis 11:11 - Life limited to 120 years?
Genesis 32:30 and Exodus 33:20 - Jacob's life was preserved?
Exodus 4:22 and Jeremiah 31:9 - Who was God's firstborn?
Numbers 23:19 and Genesis 6:6-7 - Does God repent or not?
2 Samuel 6:23 and 2 Samuel 21:8 - Did Michael have children?
2 Samuel 8:4 and 1 Chronicles 18:4 - 700 or 7000 horsemen?
2 Samuel 8:9-10 and 1 Chronicles 18:9-10 - Toi or Tou? Hadadezer or Hadarezer? Joram or Hadoram?
2 Samuel 10:18 and 1 Chronicles 19:18 - 700 or 7000 charioteers? 40,000 horsemen or footmen? Captain's name?
2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1 - Who provoked David?
2 Samuel 24:9 and 1 Chronicles 21:5 - 800,000 or 100,000?
2 Samuel 24:13 and 1 Chronicles 21:11-12 - 7 or 3 years?
1 Kings 4:26 and 2 Chronicles 9:25 - 40,000 or 4,000 stalls?
1 Kings 5:15-16 and 2 Chronicles 2:2 - 3300 or 3600?
1 Kings 7:26 and 2 Chronicles 4:5 - 2000 or 3000 baths?
2 Kings 8:26 and 2 Chronicles 22:2 - 22 or 42 years old?
2 Kings 24:8 and 2 Chronicles 36:9 - 18 or 8 years old? 3 months or 3 months and 10 days?
Ezra 2:65 and Nehemiah 7:67 - 200 or 245 singers?
Matthew 1:12 and Luke 3:27 - Who was Salathiel's father?
Matthew 1:16 and Luke 3:23 - Who was Joseph's father?
Matthew 9:18 and Mark 5:22-23 - Dead or not?
Matthew 10:5-10 and Mark 6:7-8 - Bring a staff or not?
Matthew 15:21-22 and Mark 7:24-26 - The woman was of Canaan or Greece?
Matthew 20:29-30 and Mark 10:46-47 - One or two beggars?
Matthew 21:1-2 and Mark 11:1-2 - What happened to the ***?
Matthew 26:74-75 and Mark 14:72 - Before the cock crow once or twice?
Matthew 27:5 and Acts 1:18 - How did Judas die?
John 3:16 and Psalms 2:7 - Only begotten son?
John 5:31 and John 8:14 - Was Jesus' record true or not?

VERSES THAT CONTRADICT THE TRINITARIAN DOCTRINE AND/OR THE DIVINITY OF JESUS

Exodus 33:20, John 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:16 - No one saw God.
Isaiah 42:8 - Do not praise and worship images.
Isaiah 45:1 - "Anointed" does not mean "God".
Matthew 14:23, 19:13, 26:39, 27:46, 26:42-44 - Jesus prayed.
Matthew 24:36 - Jesus was not all-knowing.
Matthew 26:39 - Jesus and God had different wills.
Matthew 28:18 - All power was given to Jesus.
Mark 1:35, 6:46, 14:35-36 - Jesus prayed.
Mark 10:17-18 and Luke 18:18-19 - Jesus denied divinity.
Mark 12:28-29 - God is one.
Mark 13:32 - Jesus was not all-knowing.
Mark 16:19 and Luke 22:69 - Jesus at the right hand of God.
Luke 3:21, 5:16, 6:12, 9:18, 9:28, 11:1-4, 22:41 - Jesus prayed.
Luke 4:18, 9:48, 10:16 - Jesus was from God.
Luke 7:16, 13:33, 24:18-19 - Jesus was a prophet.
Luke 10:21 - Jesus gave thanks.
Luke 23:46 - The spirit of Jesus was commended to God.
John 4:19 - Jesus was a prophet.
John 4:23-24 - Worship in spirit and truth.
John 14:28 - One was greater than the other.
John 5:19, 5:30, 7:28, 8:28 - Jesus was helpless.
John 5:20 - The Father showed the son.
John 5:30 and 6:38 - Jesus and God had different wills.
John 5:31-32 - Jesus' witness was not true.
John 6:11 and 11:41-42 - Jesus gave thanks.
John 6:32 - The Father was the provider, not the son.
John 7:29, 16:5, 16:28 - Jesus was from God.
John 7:16, 12:49, 14:24, 17:14 - Jesus' words were not his.
John 8:42 - Jesus did not come of himself.
John 10:29 - "My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all."
John 14:1 - Jesus said, "...believe also in me."
John 14:16, 17:1, 17:9, 17:11, 17:15 - Jesus prayed.
John 14:31 and 15:10 - Jesus followed commands.
John 17:6-8 - "I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me."
John 20:17 - Jesus had a god.
Acts 2:22 - Jesus was "a man approved of God."
Romans 8:34 - Jesus was an intercessor.
1 Timothy 2:5 - Jesus was the mediator between God and humans.
It is not at all logical to simply accept a belief system because it was passed down to you by your parents. After all, what if it is not correct? A system for belief should be based upon sound principles of reasoning and understanding, rather than feelings and emotions.
Therefore, it must be established that Muslims do accept that Almighty Allah did send down many Holy Books and he did allow the people to alter, change, delete and make additions to these Books, and as such, they can not longer be considered as the "Word of God" in their present condition. This is something immediately agreed upon by all qualifiedthe Bible, both the Old and New Testaments have been lost and are no longer extant in any language. What has remained and been referred to for translations, is in fact nothing more than old copies that do not necessarily agree with each other and there does exist in them obvious corruption in additions and deletions. Additionally, they are not complete and do not have full agreement of the scholars of the Bible as to their meanings.
Now comming to quran..the words in quran are actual words of God...people who say that Mohammed (saw) write the quran...or someone else in a cave wrote quran...PLEASE GET SOME KNOWLEDGE Before u make an attempt to answer.It would help YOU in return.I am a person who believes in facts..i research something if i want to know about it..i wouldnt just say it to bash a religion just for heck of it..that is exactly what those people have done..who have said that quran was written by a man...anyways i m not bothered ..as it is God's promise to his people that Quran shall not be tampered with or altered in any way..and it has not..even the BIG SCholars of different religion will agree to this..that quran is one book word to word letter to letter...the same...never been altered..and for muslims its the word of God!..it would only take an open heart n mind to study it..and make their own judgement..for me..quran is the ultimate truth since it has not been altered..in any way...and is the direct word of God to his people.

Edit= for MArtin S...when i raed your answer i was compelled to do a research on it..about your claim on Dhul-qurnyan being Alexander...and Thank God i did that.!! for your information you were wrong dhul-qurnyan is not aleaxander ..dhul qurnayan's full name was dhul-qurnayan haider..and he was a power ful king and a prophet of God..he built a great wall to keep (Gog and Magog are [great] corrupters in the land. So may we assign for you an expenditure that you might make between us and them a barrier?") at bay..hope now u will do a full research before u claim to know anything...

Answer 3

The Bible has been under attack for centuries but it has withstood every test. Nothing in the Bible has ever been proved to be false. Archaeologists say there's no proof that a civilization ever existed. Some decades later an archaeologist is digging somewhere an up pops the proof. No scientific fact has ever contradicted anything found in the Bible. Theories may disagree with it but not any facts. The Bible is packed full of fulfilled prophecies. It is supernatural in origin. As it is written:

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Here's just one of the many errors in the Quaran.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/SKM/qurandivinity.htm

Dhul-qarnayn: This is historical past happened not far from Arab and again this historical statement is seriously erroneous. This Dhul-Qarnayn history (Quran:18:83-98) is said to be about Alexander the Great who came from the north (Macedonia). Quran amazingly claims that Alexander the Great was a righteous man (Muslim), even though, history tells us that, Alexander was a licentious, belligerent, idolatrous and claimed to be the son of Amun, the God of Egypt. And Quran amazingly stated that, the Alexander was the one who reached the west point of flat earth where sun set down in a well of muddy water, and also he reached the point of east end of the earth where he saw sun was rising.

Answer 4

The Bible is prophetic in nature and the prophecies have been fulfilled!

In the Old Testament, there are more than 100 prophecies about the coming of Jesus the Messiah to the earth.

The second coming is mentioned 329 times! Of the 27 books in the New Testament, 23 have a reference to Christ's second coming.

Jesus gave His discipiles a stunning prophecy in Matthew 24:2, when he spoke of the coming destruction of the Jewish temple. In A.D. 70, 40 years later, Titus and the 10th Roman Legion destroyed the Temple just as Jesus had predicted.

In the second chapter of Daniel, he accurately tells King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon , of the world empires that will follow : Medo-Persia in 539 B.C., Greece in 330 B.C., Rome in 63 B.C., and lastly a revived version of the Roman empire, which has not yet come to pass.

In Ezekiel chapter 37, the rebirth of the nation of Israel is described, which happened, 5-14-1948, more than 2,000 years after it was written.

David describes the crucifixtion of Christ in Psalm 22, 1,000 years before it happened, when crucifixtion as a means of capital punishment did not exist.

Isaiah, does the same in Isaiah 53, 700 hundred years before it happened.

In the late 19th century, Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens if you prefer, visited Palestine, and said it was (paraphrasing) desolute and empty. In Isaiah 27:6 it says: "He shall cause them of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. First, Israel as a nation, did not exist for almost 2,000 years. Second, as late as the 1880s, it was mostly desert. Today, it is the largest supplier of produce for Europe. Not bad for someone who wrote this circa 700 B.C.

There are many more fulfilled prophecies in the Bible. It is the inerrant word of God.

Grace and Peace

Answer 5

There are more than five versions of Bible in fact. They were written hundred years later after Jesus. They contain lots of comment in them. And beginning of Christianity was very complex because it was hard to make people to accept a new religion. So there was some negotiations going on at that time. And we are talking about 2000 years ago. It is like a myth. (I don't say it is a myth.)
But Quran keeps it's reliability perfectly. Every Quran in the world- the oldest one to the one you can find- are exactly the same to its letters. They have been memorizing it for 1400 years also.
If we accept a religion we have to accept everything about it. Quran tells Moses, Abraham, Jesus and more. Do you know in Quran Jesus is not the one crucified but Allah rescued him.

I am sorry if I sounded subjective.

Answer 6

The Qur'an borrows many stories from the Bible, but many discrepencies between the events of the common storylines exist.

Muslims explain the descrepenices as "Gabriel making corrections" to a Bible which was "altered" by corrupt Jews and Christians.

Mohammad "recited" a story in which God floods the Earth at Noah's request. It talks about Noah's frustration with the "infidels". In response, God offers to kill them all for Noah's sake.

That's QUITE A BIT DIFFERENT than the ORIGINAL STORY.

Many stories in the Bible were inspired some 2500 years before Mohammad's human mother and father concieved him. Ancient scripts verify that the written word of thousands of years ago IS THE SAME as what is seen today.

The Qur'an is a real plagiarism of the Bible. The Bible is a really old book. This is a case of the "realness" of one or the other relies on which story the beholder heard first.

Answer 7

Accuracy? Jehovah raised up 44 bible writers, some of which, knew each other. A thread of continuity runs throughout the bible. written by more than one man, the bible is by far the most accurate........Ask Alex Tribeck: Which he prefers.
As to the other book, from what I have heard , it was penned by someone who had no fear of God. Of course that is just my opinion. (If I may be allowed an opinion....)

Answer 8

God His Son Jesus who Died & was Resurrected & Ascended to heaven & sits at the right hand of the Father. Allah is demonic & Mohammad is dead. Jesus reigns on His Fathers Throne.This is just one mere example....Qur'an 47:4 So, when you clash with "unbelieving Infidels" (this applies to people who dont believe in Islam) in battle...either non-muslim " must " be
"forced" to "become " muslim or they "must" be put to death!!! (Hello) can anyone see the problem here? )

This sounds like violence & coercion...and it is, but too many Westerners are putting their head in the sand out of "tolerance & ridiculous political correctness. Ultimately this will be our nations downfall. Their movement will be far greater than all the fascists & communists, combined, who ever lived. Radical Islam is based on the Quran which promotes violence. Anyone with common sense can read that. Except those who are in denial........

As churches have turned progressively away from the word of God, people have left seeking "alternative religions".

THE SOLUTION? NATIONAL REPENTANCE, A TURNING BACK TO THE TRUE GOD & HIS SON, JESUS THE CHRIST...............<><

Answer 9

The Quran has never been changed.

Yet the bible has been changed, altered, added on
and even christians admit that.
Purgatory was never something believed during Jesus' time
it was adopted into the bible,
and they have no idea if it is true because a man though of the idea.
and man is not perfect...he is not God.

END OF STORY

Answer 10

The existence of God as well as the Bible being the Word of God can be proved through the vehicle of prophecy. To see the evidence of this, we must first establish the fact that God is a spirit who dwells outside of our physical time domain--that is, in eternity. In the Bible, God describes Himself in Isaiah 57:15,

"For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 'I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit.'"

If God dwells in the realm of eternity as the Bible states, then He must be able to declare future events as if they had happened in the past. We who live in the physical restraints of time and space have the disadvantage of seeing the world according to a timeline. But God sees the past and the future as one complete picture.

"Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,'" Isaiah 46:9-10

So through the vehicle of prophecy, God throws down the gauntlet to all the other "holy books" and all the other "gods" that dare to claim the title. The God of the Bible challenged in Isaiah 41:22-23,

"Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; let them show the former things, what they were, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare to us things to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; yes, do good or do evil, that we may be dismayed and see it together."

OK, there is the challenge from the God of the Bible. No other book contains prophecy that has been fulfilled with accuracy. Some would say that others twist scripture interpretation to make prophecy "appear" to be fulfilled. A silly notion, seeing that so many of these prophecies (that were fulfilled to the letter) were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls--written many years before fulfillment. I have written one study based on one chapter in Daniel. In it can be found 16 in-depth prophecies regarding the rise of Alexander the Great and the subsequent rule of his generals afterward. I have paralleled the prophecy with the fulfillment from historic literature. You can find the study here http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/literal_fulfillment.pdf
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The Quranic Revelation was made by Archangel Gabriel to Muhammad. It took place over a period of more than twenty years of the Prophet's life, beginning with the first verses of Sura 96, then resuming after a three-year break for a long period of twenty years up to the death of the Prophet in 632 A.D., i.e. ten years before Hegira and ten years after Hegira.

The Qu'ran states repeatedly that Jesus (Isa) was a human prophet sent by God, not part of God Himself. "Christ, the son of Mary, was no more than a messenger; many were the messengers that passed away before him." (5:75)
However, the gospels clearly state that Jesus claimed to be God incarnate, for which He was condemned by the Jews to death.

The authority and person of Jesus is the heart of the Gospel. If Jesus is not God in the flesh, then He is not a perfect sacrifice, and not the Lamb without spot, for only God alone is perfect.

As a result of the above, Paul's rare double anathema pronounces a curse upon "another gospel given by angels".

Galatians 1:8-9
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.

Answer 11

The Bible was written by a dozen different Authors over many years. (ie Mathew Mark Luke John ) and it was published at a time when many people were still alive to verify the stories. The Quran was written by one guy in a cave.