What are the Chances?

Question

Of The following Book which might have lost its original concept or chances of alteration in the long run for centuries.

1. Bhagwad Gita
2. The Bible
3. The Koran

Answer 1

I do agree with Aradhana. The bible has definitely been manipulated many times over & there's enough proof of it, if you want to search for it. The Quran too has been edited by many irresponsible & fraudulent Maulvi's & Imam's.

Here, when I say manipulated/edited means the translation/transliteration which has been done as per one's whims & fancies at different ages of time. Common man's undersrtanding of the essence has been governed by the dictates of the so called supreme religious authorities.

Srimad Bhagvad Gita however has been preserved on a as is basis since 3200 BC. The reason being -
First, the language of the 18000 verses in 15 chapters is in sanskrit which could not be manipulated by the invaders in the recent times.
Second, these verses have been preserved through the guru-shishya tradition of our country irrespectiveof the time & ages.
Third, there's no controversy about these verses since, it's the undisputable ultimate truth emanating from Sri Krishna's words. Even, so called intelligent minds & philosophers cannot challenge it's contents.

Answer 2

What about the Torah?

Bhagwad Gita - unfortunately didn't even hear about until now.

Torah and Bible - not sure to be honest

Koran - this one can easily be stated it has not been messed with since many scholars at the time verified each and every word, letter with one another before it was written down and teaching it to one another not allowing any errors to intecept as it was kept in the language it began (Arabic) so no lost it translation as usually happenes to many texts, teh texts is still kept in this fashion so still teh same as it was.

Answer 3

I'd say the Bible would be the highest, since it's been translated quite a bit. The Koran is newer and not often translated, so it would be the least altered. The Bhagavad Gita would be somewhere in the middle. Not translated that often, but it is very very old and thus could have been altered.

Answer 4

All or none because the basic theme of all of these great books is the same and it is the uphill or downhill course of man spiritually that will determine alteration of either of them.

Answer 5

when ever anything is passed from one person to another, the chance of the contents being altered is pretty high. i have a problem believing everything out of the bible because i don't know if it is truly Gods word.

Answer 6

I have got plenty of accounts given by Christian scholars which suggets that it is Bible which has been corrupted, added, deleted and some of it parts concealed since it came into being.



" We do not know of any book in the whole world less authenticated as to date, authers' names or tradition than our own christian Bible "--[ Isis Unveiled by Blavatsky, vol. II, p-277 ]



Carl Sagan (Scientist; Author)

"My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts--the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas Jefferson attempted to excise the Pauline parts of the New Testament. There wasn't much left when he was done, but it was an inspiring document." (Letter to Ken Schei [author of Christianity Betrayed])


Thomas Jefferson

"Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus." (All references not listed here, can be found in Christianity Betrayed)


Albert Schweitzer

"Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we should not know that Jesus taught in parables, had delivered the sermon on the mount, and had taught His disciples the 'Our Father.' Even where they are specially relevant, Paul passes over the words of the Lord."


Wil Durant (Philosopher)

"Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ."
"Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ."


Walter Kaufmann (Professor of Philosophy, Princeton)

"Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life."


George Bernard Shaw

"No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its
legs again in the name of Jesus."


Thomas Hardy
"The new testament was less a Christiad than a Pauliad."

Hyam Maccoby (Talmudic Scholar)

"As we have seen, the purposes of the book of Acts is to minimize the conflict between Paul and the leaders of the Jerusalem Church, James and Peter. Peter and Paul, in later Christian tradition, became twin saints, brothers in faith, and the idea that they were historically bitter opponents standing for irreconcilable religious standpoints would have been repudiated with horror. The work of the author of Acts was well done; he rescued Christianity from the imputation of being the individual creation of Paul, and instead gave it a respectable pedigree, as a doctrine with the authority of the so-called Jerusalem Church, conceived as continuous in
spirit with the Pauline Gentile Church of Rome. Yet, for all his efforts, the truth of the matter is not hard to recover, if we examine the New Testament evidence with an eye to tell-tale
inconsistencies and confusions, rather than with the determination to gloss over and harmonize all difficulties in the interests of an orthodox interpretation." (The Mythmaker, p. 139,Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1986)


Jeremy Bentham (English Philosopher)

"If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul." (Paraphrased. Looking for a copy of "Not Paul, but Jesus" in order to retrieve the exact quote.)

Carl Jung (Psychologist)

"Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in." (U.S. News and World Report, April 22, 1991, p.55)


Bishop John S. Spong (Episcopal Bishop of Newark)

"Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference." (Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, p. 104, Harper San Francisco, 1991)

Answer 7

The Bible has the highest chance of alteration or flat out fabrication, heck half the people that wrote it weren't even from the same centuries.

Answer 8

NONE of the three. The message is ONE in all 3s Universal brotherhood & one god to know is what they teach.
2.In translation from one language to another correect word may not be found. 3. There is no superiority in one over the other's teachings.

Answer 9

Both the Bible and Koran.

Answer 10

I am sure there have been no alterations in Gita
About Quaran I dont know but there have been a lot of controversies related to it regarding the Bible