Muslim scholars, who claim that the Bible is corrupted, nevertheless take great pains to quote all the bible passages about the Paraclete as proof of prophecy of Prophet Muhammed’s coming after Jesus.
V S, corruption of the holy scripture is of two types. 1. The corruption in the original words, by adding and altering the original words. 2. The corruption in the meaning of the original words by bad translation.
Bible has gone through both types of corruption. It happens like that to all scripture over a long period. If there was never any kind of corruption then why it was necessary to send new messengers?? If the message of Moses was intact in words and deeds then what was the need of the coming of Jesus?? People do forget and go astray and they are destroyed and punished. That is a part of the world history of nations.
The Quran is intact in its words, the original words given by Allah to Muhammad through the angel gabriel. There is no corruption of any word. But surely, there has been some corruption in he meaning of words. That has been going on for a long time.
Since there was to be no prophet and no new knowledge to be disclosed after Muhammad, Allah made the last message (Quran) safe and secure against any corruption of the words. Allah also made another arrangement to secure the correct meaning of the text of the Quran also. But that is beyond the scope of this post.
So here we are, with plenty of alterations in the text and meanings of the bible. Yet not all is altered or spoiled. The message of the bible remains clear if some one wants to interpret things justly, with love and wisdom,
Here I have to mention two important things.
- Moses did not take mankind to full salvation. He had come only for the Jews and to deliver them from the terrible life under the Egyptian kings. That he did very well. Al hamdu Lillah. But he left his people midway with a message for some one to come after him. See Deut 18:18. It is telling about a prophet to come after Moses, from their brethren (Not from his brethren), the like of Moses himself who was given a sacred law.
That makes it clear that some one ( a prophet) was to come after Moses Not a God to come after Moses. So the mission of Moses was not the ultimate message for mankind. There was more to follow.
- Then we come to Jesus. He was a prophet and messenger of God. Some Catholics deny that he was a prophet. The others need to keep Jesus as a prophet of God and a God as well. Anyhow, whatever he was, he also went away leaving his people midway by saying “I have many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when the comforter (parcalete) comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak. And he shall show you thigs to come…” John chapter 16.
That clearly means that Jesus did not complete his mission in this world. He gave a message for some one to come after him. So who is that person who will hear and speak and say things??? We have to understand that. Whether it is parkeletos or perkilatos, it does not matter much. It has been mentioned as a comforter, as another comforter. So if Jesus was the first comforter himself (as he was), we have to look for some one who was a man, not just a spirit.
I have no problem with bibleNT as it is. We have to put up with what is left of the bible and make good use of it as much as we can. No bad feelings. When the Muslims say that bible is corrupted, they do not mean entirely corrupted. There are few changes in words and meanings.
I hope that would answer few things submitted by sedonaman too. Good luck and happy posting. Next I may prove that Muslims believe in the Holy Spirit, not as a God. Jesus was aided (helped and supported) by the Holy spirit (2:253). We have many references about Holy Spirit in the Quran.
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