More on Ibn-Khazem - Part 3

Corruption of the holy books

Main article: Tahrif

Thorough comparison of the Qur'an with the modern texts of the other holy books shows obvious disagreements: The Torah disagrees in the narratives of Creation, Adam, Ishmael, and many others. The Gospel (the Injil) disagrees on whether Jesus is the Son of God and God incarnate, whether he died, and whether he is the way to salvation of the soul. All three books are written from a human perspective while the Qur'an says they were revealed from God's perspective. Example given by Jesus himself in the book of Luke Chapter 6:1-11

The first known Muslim to recognize this was Ibn Hazm, vizier of Spain and writer against Christians. He concluded that because they were in disagreement, the Bible (containing the Torah, Zabur, and Injil) must be wrong. However, knowing that the Qur'an states "believe in what hath been revealed to thee and what (scripture) was revealed before thee (the Torah and the Injil)." Qur'an Surah 4.162, he concluded, "Therefore, the present text must have been falsified by the Christians after the time of Muhammad."

Some scholars, such as Al Ghazzali (?-1111 CE), disagreed. Ibn Kathir (1301-1372) wrote that the Jews did not alter the Torah, only their interpretation of the Torah:

The phrase "[they] displace words from (their) right places" means that they misinterpret them and understand them in a way that God did not intend, doing this deliberately and inventing lies against God.

In Deuteronomy 31:24-30 Moses himself predicted the corruption of the commandments by his own people after his death labelling them as stiff-necked and rebellious due to the horrible acts they committed during Moses absence to meet God on Mount Sinai. In other places Jesus himself condemned the act of the scribes and the Pharisees and accusing them with hypocricy and moral illnesses (see Luke 12:52, Luke 21:46-47)

However, in the following two hundred years, most scholars came to agree with Ibn Khazem, but they pushed the date of change earlier, previous to the time of Muhammad. Paul and Constantine were often blamed. In more modern times, the belief of such conspiracy has been downplayed and replaced with the idea that corruption came through many small changes by many copyists in the second and third centuries CE for the Injil. The corruption of the Torah and Zabur was moved back to before the Common Era, before the earliest manuscripts known today. Today, the corruption of the holy books is a virtually undisputed belief.

Source: http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Islamic_Holy_Books

AGAIN, THERE IS NO CHARGE OF THE BIBLE BEING CORRUPTED IN ISLAM PRIOR TO THE 11TH CENTURY AD AND IBN KHAZEM (HAZM)!!!!