5. THE BIBLE HAS NOT BEEN CHANGEDThe only changes made in the bible are in it’s translation into over 2400 languages but this has never changed the clear message of God’s word that salvation is in Christ alone. Original manuscripts don’t exist but scholars acknowledge copies are 99% accurate. To change the bible would mean changing every one of thousands of manuscripts. If you don’t have a ‘manuscript that wasn’t changed’ what are you comparing the present bible to? Evidence is needed to prove changes. The Dead Sea Scrolls in fact provide indisputable evidence of manuscript preservation. Discovered in 1947 they are among the oldest bible manuscripts in existence, 1000 years older than anything previous but on examination by experts are the same as the Bible we have today! These manuscripts were written down hundreds of years before Islam and it was the bible in existence when the Koran was written. Jesus Christ quoted from the OT scriptures in Luke 24:27. To say the bible is corrupted is to accuse God of being a liar because He promises in the Bible His word will be preserved, Psalm 119:89. If you are going to say the bible has been changed you need to substantiate it with evidence that compares what we have now to what was not changed. This is one of the weakest arguments of Islam and an attempt to discredit the message and the Lord Jesus Christ. To say that Muslims respect the bible is nonsense for what bible are they talking about? If it is the one that wasn't changed where is it and what does it say? If they are saying that what is written in the Koran about the bible shows the bible we have is different then we are saying Allah deceived people for 1000's of years by allowing them a revelation (our bible) that was corrupt. Maybe it is that Muslims are afraid to look for the changes in the bible in case they find that they don't exist and a doubt is placed in their mind.
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