By John Washahi
One of the long term accusations of Muslims about Christianity is that they always said the Bible is a corrupted book. By that they mean the Bible has been altered from what God said to Jesus or what Jesus originally wrote. The same accusation has been made of the Jews that they have altered what God said to Jews, Muslims accusing Jews of changing the truth. The accusation is made of both Jews and Christian, for example they have deleted the name of Mohammad from the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Torah and Torah.
Firstly. We should notice that Jesus did not write any book. What we have got as the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were written by his followers, disciples, Arabic Hawariuon (people who shout), then the Bible was not written by Jesus at all.
Secondly, let us accept for the moment that that Bible, both Toraht and Injill, according to Muslims, has been corrupted. The logical question is where are the remaining copies of the Torah and Injil that survived the corruption process? In other words, according to Muslims if Jews or Christians at one stage started corrupting the Torah or Injil, there should be in existence some copies of unaltered Bibles before that stage. Muslims should produce those original uncorrupted copies or stop making these accusations. Why is it that until now all the archaeological copies of the Bible that we Christians have are the same as today’s version of the Bible? Surely if Christians and Jews started to alter the Bible, they could not have collected all of them and have destroyed the entire old versions. The result of this argument is that the Bible is true and has never been altered.
Thirdly, the Quran itself has been altered. According to many well-known Hadith, the Quran was altered. When Abu Baker, the first caliphate, gathered all the material which the Quran verses had been written on and made them one compilation from them, he then set fire to all that material. This means the Quran is hand-made and it could be full of alterations, for we can never have access to the original Quran to examine these changes.
Fourthly. This was one of the reasons that I converted to Christianity. I went to the British Library and I saw that the oldest manuscripts are the same as today’s version. I could not cheat myself. I accepted the truth without any agony. Without letting the fact that one of my ancestors was one of the well known 50 persons who wrote the original material or memorised it during Mohammad’s time, the Kutab al Wahi, be a barrier between me and the truth. And the Truth is Jesus.
The conclusion is that Muslim accusations are not supported with any evidence. It is clear that the Bible has been kept safe through the ages. I believe this book can only have been kept safe from changes by the hand of God.
One of the long term accusations of Muslims about Christianity is that they always said the Bible is a corrupted book. By that they mean the Bible has been altered from what God said to Jesus or what Jesus originally wrote. The same accusation has been made of the Jews that they have altered what God said to Jews, Muslims accusing Jews of changing the truth. The accusation is made of both Jews and Christian, for example they have deleted the name of Mohammad from the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Torah and Torah.
Firstly. We should notice that Jesus did not write any book. What we have got as the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were written by his followers, disciples, Arabic Hawariuon (people who shout), then the Bible was not written by Jesus at all.
Secondly, let us accept for the moment that that Bible, both Toraht and Injill, according to Muslims, has been corrupted. The logical question is where are the remaining copies of the Torah and Injil that survived the corruption process? In other words, according to Muslims if Jews or Christians at one stage started corrupting the Torah or Injil, there should be in existence some copies of unaltered Bibles before that stage. Muslims should produce those original uncorrupted copies or stop making these accusations. Why is it that until now all the archaeological copies of the Bible that we Christians have are the same as today’s version of the Bible? Surely if Christians and Jews started to alter the Bible, they could not have collected all of them and have destroyed the entire old versions. The result of this argument is that the Bible is true and has never been altered.
Thirdly, the Quran itself has been altered. According to many well-known Hadith, the Quran was altered. When Abu Baker, the first caliphate, gathered all the material which the Quran verses had been written on and made them one compilation from them, he then set fire to all that material. This means the Quran is hand-made and it could be full of alterations, for we can never have access to the original Quran to examine these changes.
Fourthly. This was one of the reasons that I converted to Christianity. I went to the British Library and I saw that the oldest manuscripts are the same as today’s version. I could not cheat myself. I accepted the truth without any agony. Without letting the fact that one of my ancestors was one of the well known 50 persons who wrote the original material or memorised it during Mohammad’s time, the Kutab al Wahi, be a barrier between me and the truth. And the Truth is Jesus.
The conclusion is that Muslim accusations are not supported with any evidence. It is clear that the Bible has been kept safe through the ages. I believe this book can only have been kept safe from changes by the hand of God.
