Chopping off the Branch

Every time a Muslim tells us that the Christian Scriptures are corrupted, they are indeed chopping off the same branch on which they are sitting. They cannot bring about to say this absurdity without ignoring their own holy books and the power of their god Allah. As a Christian, I do not even have a reason to believe in Qurán or any of their Hadiths. However, I am appealing to their books for the sake of their belief in them. Let me cite some references before I make a case for the preservation of the Christian Scriptures.

Narrated Abu Huraira: The people of the Book used to read the Torah in Hebrew and then explain it in Arabic to the Muslims. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said (to the Muslims). “Do not believe the people of the Book, nor disbelieve them, but say, ‘We believe in Allah and whatever is revealed to us, and whatever is revealed to you.’ “

Sahih Bukhari 7362

If the Muslims really believe in Muhammad, they will also have to eat up this portion of the Hadith like the sheep of Aisha, to hide it. There is no escape from this evidence.

Islam’s copycat prophet Muhammad used the authenticity of the Christian and Jewish scriptures to build his own revelations. As he did not know either Hebrew or Greek, he had to rely on certain explanations and make his own assumptions based on what the Christians and Jews (People of the Book) told his followers. Notice the below verse from the Qurán.

Believe in My revelations which confirm your Scriptures.¹ Do not be the first to deny them or trade them for a fleeting gain.² And be mindful of Me.

Sura 4:41

He is in fact pleading to the people of the book to accept his revelations because he is basing it on their scriptures.

This is a prophet who is trying hard to be accepted by the people of the book. So every time, Muslims claim that the Christian and Jewish scriptures are tampered with, they have a problem with their own so-called prophet who is begging at the feet of Christians and Jews and requesting them to accommodate him.

Most Muslims are clueless when it comes to the Bible. Therefore most of their argument comes from a place of Ignorance. This series will help you understand how the HOLY BIBLE became the Christain scriptures. If our Muslim brothers would spend some time understanding this, they would not be venturing to ask questions that we consider stupid.

What is the Bible

The Holy Bible is a collection of 66 books and is divided into two portions. The Word BIBLE means THE BOOK in Greek. The original word in Greek is τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía. It is a collection of books.

• The Old Testament (Jewish Scriptures)
• New Testament (Christian Scriptures)

The Entire Bible was written over a period of 1600 years by 40 different authors contributing to it. The below diagram should be able to give you a comprehensive understanding of the scripture we call the BIBLE.

The Old Testament

The Old Testament is a collection of 39 books. This collection is also called TANAKH. TANAKH(תַּנַ״ךְ) is short for the sections within the Old Testament. T(orah) N(evi’im) K(etuvim)

• Torah (5 Books of Law of Moses)
• Navim (19 Books of the Prophets)
• Ketuvim (Other Writings)

The Jewish Bible starts with the Book of Genesis and Ends with the Prophetic book of Malachi. The Language of the Old Testament was in HEBREW.

After the time of Malachi, there was a gap of 400 years before the coming of Jesus Christ. This period of 400 years is called the SILENT PERIOD, also called the INTERTESTAMENTAL PERIOD.

Introducing the Septuagint

During the 3rd Century BC, the Greek empire spread throughout the known world. That is when the Hebrew Bible was translated into GREEK as initiated by King Ptolemy. The Purpose of the translation was to store these scriptures in the Library of Alexandria. It was translated by 72 elders. Six from each of the 12 tribes. Hence the word Septuagint ( ‘seventy’; often abbreviated 70; in Roman numerals, LXX)

The scholars worked in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-247 B.C.), according to the Letter of Aristeas to his brother Philocrates. They assembled to translate the Hebrew Old Testament into the Greek language because Koine Greek began to supplant Hebrew as the language most commonly spoken by the Jewish people during the Hellenistic Period.

The Initial translation started with Torah and after the Torah, other books were translated over the next two to three centuries. It is unclear which was translated when, or where.

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Evidence of the Lie of Quranic Memorization

According to Islamic Traditions, the Quran was never completed as a book till the death of Muhammad. He used to receive verses from Jibreel in a piecemeal way. So when Muhammad died, the full Quran were NOT in the memory of his companions. At most, it was few verses that they had memorised, unlike what the Muslims think. Nobody had it fully memorized. Let us read a portion from Bukhari and notice the points he has made.

The Story from Syed Bukhari

Narrated Zaid bin Thabit:

Abu Bakr As-Siddiq sent for me when the people of Yamama had been killed (i.e., a number of the Prophet’s Companions who fought against Musailima). (I went to him) and found `Umar bin Al- Khattab sitting with him. Abu Bakr then said (to me), “`Umar has come to me and said: “Casualties were heavy among the Qurra’ of the Qur’an (i.e. those who knew the Qur’an by heart) on the day of the Battle of Yamama, and I am afraid that more heavy casualties may take place among the Qurra’ on other battlefields, whereby a large part of the Qur’an may be lost.

Therefore I suggest, you (Abu Bakr) order that the Qur’an be collected.” I said to `Umar, “HOW CAN YOU DO SOMETHING WHICH ALLAH’S APOSTLE DID NOT DO?” `Umar said, “By Allah, that is a good project.” `Umar kept on urging me to accept his proposal till Allah opened my chest for it and I began to realize the good in the idea which `Umar had realized.” Then Abu Bakr said (to me). ‘You are a wise young man and we do not have any suspicion about you, and you used to write the Divine Inspiration for Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). So you should search for (the fragmentary scripts of) the Qur’an and collect it in one book.”

By Allah If they had ordered me to shift one of the mountains, it would not have been heavier for me than this ordering me to collect the Qur’an. Then I said to Abu Bakr, “How will you do something which Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) did not do?” Abu Bakr replied, “By Allah, it is a good project.” Abu Bakr kept on urging me to accept his idea until Allah opened my chest for what He had opened the chests of Abu Bakr and `Umar.

So I started looking for the Qur’an and collecting it from (what was written on) Palme stalks, thin white stones and also from the men who knew it by heart, till I found the last Verse of Surat at-Tauba (Repentance) with Abi Khuzaima Al-Ansari, and I did not find it with anybody other than him.

The Verse is: ‘Verily there has come unto you an Apostle (Muhammad) from amongst yourselves. It grieves him that you should receive any injury or difficulty..(till the end of Surat-Baraa’ (at-Tauba) (9.128-129). Then the complete manuscripts (copy) of the Qur’an remained with Abu Bakr till he died, then with `Umar till the end of his life, and then with Hafsa, the daughter of `Umar.

Syed Bukhari 4986

Inference of the above story

Zaid Ibn Thabit thought that Shifting a Mountain was easier than collecting the Quran. If it was in the memory of the companions of Muhammad, people like Abu Bakr, Umar and Zaid could have easily recited it and got the Quran collected from their own memory. Clearly, the hadith is exposing the deception of the Islamic leaders in lying to their gullible folks.

The Verses of Stoning and Breastfeeding

Interestingly, the all-powerful Allah could not preserve his own words from being destroyed by a Sheep. Aisha the Favourite wife of Muhammad confessed the story that the verses of stoning and breastfeeding was eaten by a sheep.

It was narrated that ‘Aishah said:“The Verse of stoning and of breastfeeding an adult ten times was revealed¹, and the paper was with me under my pillow. When the Messenger of Allah died, we were preoccupied with his death, and a tame sheep came in and ate it.”

Sunan Ibn Majah 1944

After the sheep ate it, Zaid bin Thabit could not retrieve it and also none of the companions could get it from their memory. This again proves that the Memorization story of the Quran is a LIE.

Conclusion

Dear Reader, do you want to trust in an Allah who died along with Muhammad? The Allah who could not even preserve his own words from a sheep? Moreover, Zaid kept reminding Umar that the collecting of the Quran was not right as Muhammad did not do that. Zaid understood clearly that Allah is the puppet of Muhammad and if Muhammad did not do that, they should also not be doing it either. Would you still continue to believe the Lie of Quranic Memorization?

The End of “Exposing the Impressive LIE of Quran Memorization”

The Gospels during the time of Muhammad

Muhammad exhorted the Christians to read and judge by the Gospels. That is proof of the authenticity of the Gospels during the time of Muhammad.

So let the people of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed in it. And those who do not judge by what Allah has revealed are ˹truly˺ rebellious.

Sura 5:47

Surely if the Gospel was corrupted during those days, he would not have exhorted them to read it and judge by it. It is a different story that he thought that the Gospel is a book written by Jesus. Similarly, Muhammad confirmed the Torah with the Jews as authentic in Sura 5:43. He exhorts them to follow the same. If that is the case, How the Bible got Corrupted?

The Inspiration

Because of this lingering thought of the Book written by Moses and another one by Jesus, he too started the mission of writing his own book. He might have been in some delusion that PROPHETS have to Write a Book to convey the message.

Had he read the Torah or the Injeel for himself, he would not have ventured out for this disaster. Moreover, as the Jews and the Christians did not give heed to his words, he got into a fog of writing his own book to COMPETE with them. The next verse confirms this illusion.

We have revealed to you ˹O Prophet˺ this Book with the truth, as a confirmation of previous Scriptures and a supreme authority on them. So judge between them by what Allah has revealed, and do not follow their desires over the truth that has come to you. To each of you, We have ordained a code of law and a way of life. If Allah had willed, He would have made you one community, but His Will is to test you with what He has given ˹each of˺ you. So COMPETE WITH ONE ANOTHER in doing good. To Allah you will all return, then He will inform you ˹of the TRUTH REGARDING YOUR DIFFERENCES.

Sura 5:48

This is one of the most confusing scriptures where Muhammad loses all reasoning.

• If it is coming from the same God whom you also worship, why do you need a new revelation?
• Why Not adopt the same revelation and also join with them?
• Why COMPETE with them with a NEW REVELATION of Muhammad?
• Even though he agrees that his book is a confirmation of the previous revelation, towards the last sentence, he agrees that his revelation has differences from the previous ones.

It’s amusing to note that Muhammad was under some illusion that the Christian and Jewish scriptures confirmed his revelation.

Believe in My revelations which confirm your Scriptures.¹ Do not be the first to deny them or trade them for a fleeting gain.² And be mindful of Me.

Sura 2:41

The Invention of the Corrupted Bible

Lo and Behold, the COMPETITION of Muhammad with Moses and Jesus got him into this quagmire of creating a scripture. His so-called God (Allah) started dropping his verses to make the new Revelation. Surprisingly, all these new revelations are centred around one Man. All these revelations are about ways for circumventing socially acceptable norms and decency. Allah is totally devoted to satisfying his prophet. Ironically, even his little wife notices that. she narrates the following in Sahih Bukhari. Notice the highlighted portion.

Narrated Aisha:

I used to look down upon those ladies who had given themselves to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) and I used to say, “Can a lady give herself (to a man)?” But when Allah revealed: “You (O Muhammad) can postpone (the turn of) whom you will of them (your wives), and you may receive any of them whom you will; and there is no blame on you if you invite one whose turn you have set aside (temporarily).’ (33.51) I said (to the Prophet), “I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires.”

Sahih Bukhari 4788

Result of the competition with Moses and Jesus

Now, all these carnal desires of the prophet are packed into one single book. Do we need to think much as to which is the corrupted copy of the bible? Behold, I introduce to you the CORRUPT BIBLE a.k.a al-Qurʼān. The followers of this corrupt bible insist that the book be read ONLY IN ARABIC.

Conclusion

Now that you are introduced to the Corrupt version of the bible, please make an effort to read it and let all people know that Muslims are correct in telling us that the Bible has been corrupted. Show them the True Copy and the Corrupt Copy of the Bible and let them make a choice. However, if your Muslim friend thinks that the Holy BIBLE in your possession is corrupted, please send him a link to this page.

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The Character of the Islamic Allah

If we read the Qur’an, we would be able to see an Allah who keeps swinging between extreme poles. Ironically, Allah keeps saying exactly as his prophet feels. If the prophet is happy with certain things, Allah is also happy with the same thing. If the Prophet is unhappy with certain things, Allah also switches sides. The Allah of Islam is ever-ready to supply verses that satisfy the prophet.

Notice the below verses in which Allah himself confesses that he can keep supplying newer verses and abrogate the older ones as the situation changes.

If We ever abrogate¹ a verse or cause it to be forgotten, We replace it with a better or similar one. Do you not know that Allah is Most Capable of everything?

Sura 2:106

A Christian need not read the entire Qurán to know the essence of the book. Just this single verse will prove to him that the Allah of Muhammad is NOT the YHWH of the Bible. Reading through the Qurán we will see a totally different Allah in the Meccan Suras than in the Medinan Suras? How come the same Allah behaves diametrically opposite? The World of Unstable and Unpredictable Allah syncs up with the feelings of Muhammad.

The Islamic Dilemma

The earlier Suras of Muhammad were Meccan. He was trying to pally up with the Jews, Christians and Sabeans of the place. We see a struggling Muhammad trying to make inroads into these communities by his soft messages of friendship and harmony. As usual, Allah was giving all the messages as Muhammad desired. Allah wanted Muhammad to be accepted by these communities.

Therefore, it’s natural that Muslims respond with the peaceful Meccan passages as a proof text for their prophet when Christians show the violent Medinan Passages. The abrogation of Islamic scriptures is the cause of the Islamic Dilemma. They somehow forget that the Medinan Suras are the later suras and hence it abrogates the peaceful Meccan Suras as mentioned in Sura 2:106. The presence of Sura 2:106 makes it impossible for Muslims to even practice the peaceful Meccan Suras which contradicts the Medinan Suras.

The Unpredictable Allah

Notice this verse in the Quran which says that the followers of Jesus will be superior to the disbelievers till the day of Judgement. Needless to say, Muhammad was trying to be friendly with the Christians and therefore, Allah was ready with the verse.

˹Remember˺ when Allah said, “O Jesus! I will take you¹ and raise you up to Myself. I will deliver you from those who disbelieve and ELEVATE YOUR[JESUS’s] FOLLOWERS above the disbelievers until the Day of Judgment. Then to Me, you will ˹all˺ return, and I will settle all your disputes.

Sura 3:55

In a later instance when Muhammad was upset with the Christians and the Jews, Allah was ready with the verse to subjugate the very same Christians whom he said will be elevated till the day of Judgement.

Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, nor comply with what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the Scripture,¹ until they pay the tax,² willingly submitting, fully humbled.

Sura 9:29

Wondering how could Allah say such opposing statements? That is called the Islamic Dilemma. When you have an unpredictable Allah, you should expect constant abrogation of Islamic Scriptures.

Conclusion

What we have displayed here is the tip of the iceberg. Read through the Quran and you will see this same unstable Allah switching statements. Contrast this Allah with Jesus and you will come out with the inference that Jesus and Allah are diametrically opposite.

Notice what Jesus said about his own words.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Matt 24:35