Interfaith Dialogue (Scriptures) - Islam and Christianity

[The_Old_Man]

Re: Interfaith Dialogue (Scriptures) - Islam and Christianity

@picoico

This sounds unwise, at best. Older may not be better…how does one determine the veracity or quality of the older manuscripts? In any case, I wouldn’t make light of manuscripts which indicate differences at all…that does imply a form of corruption.

Older is closer to the original. Presently good translations indicate any differences of other old manuscripts in a footnote. Suppose they will do the same.

Thus far NO major differences (differences that impact on the message of the Bible or will change any doctines) have been found. I doubt any will.

The Quranic manuscripts that were destroyed were not historical artifacts, but proven corrupted variants.

Not true. ALL copies were destroyed, even those by the original writers!

It’s not at all an identical situation, in that Muslims do not need to rely on ‘finds’ to verify their texts.

Christianity also do not depend on “finds” to verify. Sometimes God intends for manuscripts to surface in miraculous ways in order to proof there are no changes/corruption. If one of the Qur’anic manuscripts that was supposed to be destroyed, does turn up today it will be destroyed by Islam if the slightest difference exist to the present canon - even if it was written by one of the original writers that sat at the feet of prophet Muhammad. Now THAT will not happen in Christianity because we feel secure in our scriptures to investigate and incorporate any differences.