Has the Old Testament Been Fabricated?

[Darryl1958]

Speaking of double standards, I think this is an excellent video posted by ComeHome2Rome in dealing with textual variations.

youtube.com/watch?v=z8RJ…e_gdata_player

This is a link to a short video re: the most ancient Arabic Quran in existence today. It was discovered in the 1970s and has been dated based on the art back to a very small window of time- between 705 & 715 ad. The are varing texts written over texts.

It provides concrete confirmation that the collection and composition of the Koran involved more than the private revelations of one man. The divine origins of the Koran involving angels and caves is a mythological account.
The actual history shows the Koran as a document that emerges over time from multiple sources. Even the official Islamic history suggests as much withthe ‘rea’ Koran being sifted from thousands of inauthentic tract— albeit at a much earlier date than the evidence here now suggests was the case.

 

[Darryl1958]

That the Quran would have textual variants would not immediately denote we don’t know what the Quran said. That’s just a fact with any ancient text of work. The problem is that Muslims today want to act as if there was never any problem with what the manuscripts say, and that there has been a perfect copy of the Quran throughout history.

In another conversation I had with a Muslim here on CAF, he was claiming that the textual variants in the NT manuscripts was a sign you couldn’t follow it. I pointed out that most of those are grammatical, but he maintained it was still proof. When I pointed out there are textual variants seen in the Quran and even cited some Muslim sources to that effect, his immediate response was, “Yeah, but those are grammatical variants.”

I would almost laugh, but willful ignorance is never humorous.

I am dumbfounded as whether he would be stringing you along, or if he was lying to himself too?

Either way, as Pope Benedict once noted, rational discourse between the two religions is really not possible at this time.

 

[Boy_Wonder]

I hear it over and over again “the scriptures have been corrupted” from Muslims.

This argument is the only way the vague nonsense and theological mishmash of Islam can make any sense to its adherents. It’s plain as day that this point of view doesn’t hold water.