07-14-2006, 08:57 PM
Bismillah:
Assalamo ALikum brother,
Quote:the english Gospel does not have the exact words spoken by Jesus so such a reveiw cannot be done. That is where the difference lies. This seems to me to be the point that wel mel is trying to show.
Not only that brother, am also talking about <b>missing books and verses </b> when you compare between each VERSION of today's Bibles. I’ve asked Christians many times, which version do you consider to be the Word of God, and believe me no one was able to answer this simple question. Because they are not sure what was the original text all about.
Now Alhamdulelah, since the Original Arabic text of the Qur’an is available in our hands, we do not care much about the English translations, because we could get back to the source at anytime for better understanding, which is not the case with the Bible simply because the Christians themselves do not have access to the original as we do. Alhamdulelah.
Even hostile critics of Islam have grudgingly vouched for the purity of the Holy Qur'an:
Quote:"THERE IS PROBABLY IN THE WORLD <b>NO OTHER BOOK WHICH HAS REMAINED TWELVE CENTURIES (now fourteen) WITH SO PURE A TEXT."</b> — (Sir William Muir)
Christians honestly need to admit that it is a fact that today’s Bible is full of interpolation, fabrications and man-made stories that has nothing to do with God.
Mrs. <b>Ellen G. White, a "prophetess" of the Seventh Day Adventist Church</b>, in her Bible Commentary Vol. 1, page 14, has this confession to make about the fallibility of the "Holy Bible."
Quote:"THE BIBLE WE READ TODAY <b>IS THE WORK OF MANY COPYISTS </b> WHO HAVE IN MOST INSTANCES DONE THEIR WORK WITH MARVELLOUS ACCURACY. BUT <b>COPYISTS HAVE NOT BEEN INFALLIBLE</b>, AND GOD MOST EVIDENTLY HAS NOT SEEN <b>FIT TO PRESERVE THEM ALTOGETHER FROM ERROR IN TRANSCRIBING." </b>
She further says:
Quote:"I SAW THAT GOD HAD ESPECIALLY GUARDED THE BIBLE" YET WHEN COPIES OF IT WERE FEW, LEARNED MEN HAD IN SOME INSTANCES <b>CHANGED THE WORDS</b>, THINKING THAT THEY WERE MAKING IT PLAIN, WHEN <b>IN REALITY THEY WERE MYSTIFYING THAT WHICH WAS PLAIN</b>, BY CAUSING IT TO <b>LEAN TO THEIR ESTABLISHED VIEWS, WHICH WERE GOVERNED BY TRADITION."</b>
The mental malady is a cultivated one. This authoress and her followers can still trumpet from roof tops that <b>"Truly, the Bible is the infallible Word of God." "Yes, it is adulterated, but pure" "It is human, yet divine." </b>
Do words have any meaning in their language?
Salam
Wael.