Bible and Qur'an

A basic teaching of Islam is that the Christian scriptures have been corrupted by the Christian church, and so Christians ought to embrace the Qur'an as the final and authoritative revelation from Allah. It's interesting that Muslims, who pride themselves on their faith in the powers of reason, have been so misled by this doctrine about the corruption of Christian scriptures. This is something Muslims believe as an article of faith, and not as something that is reasonable or that can be proven. There are no pre-biblical Christian texts against which you can place the accepted texts and demonstrate that they have been corrupted. There has been a lot of hoopala about so called Christian 'gospels' that were never recognized as being divinely inspired that differ in many ways from the canonical scriptures, but those 'gospels' were written long after the biblical books and so nothing can be proven by them. The fact of the matter is that it is the biblical texts which are authoritative, and when you put the texts of the Qur'an up against them you begin to see where the corruption actually exists. 

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