To muslims: on what historical basis do they believe the Christian Bible was changed?

Answer 1

It is an article of belief along which the Islamic faith is founded. The argument goes like this:
The quran is the final and uncorrupted word of god. If there are discrepancies between the bible and the quran then the bible has been changed.

It is interesting to note that the muslims accept the "original" bible and the Torah as the books of God.

Answer 2

Well, we'd be able to settle this argument completely if there were an original text in the original language that the prophets spoke at that time. Since there isn't, we have to look at the current situation. How many versions of the Bible are there in English? If you need help counting, this website will give you an idea (21 versions): http://www.biblegateway.com/

Now that's only in English! So you may say, well they're different translations of the Hebrew Bible. But even Hebrew is a new language, Biblically speaking; Jesus spoke Aramaic, not Hebrew. Now, when you translate something from one language to another, you lose a lot from the true meaning of the original text. When you translate from a translation, you lose even MORE of the true meaning of the text. How many people do you know that can read and comprehend Shakespearean English or Old English? Not very many I'd bet. So even when we translate from an older style English to a newer one, we lose yet more of what the original once said. Because of all this loss of words and meanings, there is bound to be confusion, contradictions, and people will try to compensate for that by editing to make it a little more understandable and in more agreement with the rest of the text. So with all of that loss and change, how can you know for sure which words are the Words of God, and which came from someone trying to make it seem like the Words of God?

Then let's look at the history of the Bible and the church. One fair example is that (as even monst Christians know), during the reign of King James, he had the Bible edited and cropped. There is dispute over a few chapters of the Bible, that Catholics say belong, and Protestants say do not. If the Bible is 100% God's original word, why would there be any dispute over its contents?

You have to understand something from our side. We do not say that the Bible has been changed to make ourselves look better, more original, or closer to God. We know that God delivered messages to many people before in what was the Torah and the Gospel and the Scrolls and whatnot. The reason we focus on this is for preservation of our own Holy Quran. We see what it has done to the Christians and the Jews and we're putting in alot of effort to make sure that we don't make the same mistake. For this reason, we have the Quran, and then we have translations of the Quran. We know that the translations are not the Word of God, they are the Word of God translated into another language by a man who does his best, but is still prone to mistakes as all humans are. We still have the Quran in its original language from 1400 years ago. If you look to one of the three origninal manuscripts (one in Turkey, one in Egypt, and the third I'm not sure), the only difference you will find is that today's printed Quran has vowel and pronunciation accents that help to properly pronounce the words. Not a word is changed, and we intend to keep it that way. You will also find that all Muslims memorize some part of the Quran, and many memorize the whole Quran. So even without the text, the Quran will still survive.

Answer 3

As a Jew, I can ask Christians the same question.

hayaa_bi_taqwa - I can't speak for the new testament, but the old testament was written originally in Hebrew. In fact if you compare the versions of the jewish bible in hebrew among ashkenazi (easter European Jews) to the version the Teimani (Yemenite Jews), who were isolated from the rest of the Jewish world for over 2,000 years, there are is no difference larger than the SPELLING of a few words.

Answer 4

from islamic view ,bec qur`an say so ,from historical view read
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

http://rapidshare.com/files/19895985/MJ_TSBB.rar

Answer 5

Um. A translation is a change, hun.

Answer 6

Why do you have multiple versions then?
If they were all the same, then there should be only one version.