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Is the Bible corrupted?

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In what sense the earlier scriptures are corrupted: not preserved verbatim

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Yes, if corrupted means not preserved word for word, since they were never meant to be a recitation; but the general message of Jesus was most likely kept.

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Mufti Abu Layth says that whether the other books are corrupted depends on what is meant, because they were never meant to be preserved as a recitation like the Quran; what was meant to be preserved was the overall message. If corrupted means not preserved verbatim, he says, then yes: the words as Jesus spoke them were not kept, and it is not even certain whether he spoke Aramaic or Hebrew, so things may have been lost and wrongly added. He says he is pretty sure that the overall, generic message, such as Jesus speaking of the kingdom of God and parables like the Good Samaritan, would have been kept. Responding to a viewer's comment about translation, he adds that Jesus taught in parables with an overall message, that the Gospel writers came much later and disagree among themselves, and that in that sense the term corrupted can be used.

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Mufti Abu Layth says the earlier scriptures can be called corrupted if that means they were not preserved verbatim.

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“so when we keep saying that the the other messages are corrupted it depends what you mean by that that from yes they weren't preserved verbatim so if that's what we mean by corrupted then yes that is true”

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went before me Wally Hillel accompanied harima aleikum and so I may make halal permissible for you some of those things which you think are impermissible but the good news he gave them were the Gospels as in the message just the good news that he gave them this was the gospel the good news so we think like some Muslims think Oh God gave Jesus a book like the Quran and that caranas lost today no it was that good news that was the injeel the gospel

8:17

so but we are mistaken in thinking it's a book of recitation because we are applying our parameters on to them so when it came to the prophet muhammad sallallaahu listening the revelation was a quran it was something to be recited so i hope that makes make sense all the other books corrupted you see depends what you mean by corrupted because they were never meant to be it was the overall message that was meant to be preserved it wasn't meant to be like a recitation

8:57

book like the Quran so when we keep saying that the the other messages are corrupted it depends what you mean by that that from yes they weren't preserved verbatim so if that's what we mean by corrupted then yes that is true they weren't they were corrupted from that perspective if that's what you mean that the the message the way it came to the way Jesus spoke the message that verbatim word for word or those kind of things haven't been preserved because we're not even sure what languages are

9:35

spoken in did he speak it in the Greek yeah Jesus himself would have spoken Aramaic or did he speak it in the ritual Hebrew what would have or was it in Aramaic we don't know these things so from that aspect one could use the word corrupted if you wanted to use that word that they're not in the original format but the overall mess and truly by them not being in the original format many things would may have been lost and some things may have been wrongly put in there and so that from that perspective you can use the term corrupted but the overall message or some of the the

10:14

generic kind of message I'm pretty sure would have been that so Jesus trying to tell them look he's trying to advise them speaking about the kingdom of God and doing this and you know you have to the the the stories of the Good Samaritan or other thing I think these things would have been generally what Jesus would have told them so I hope that's of some help

10:41

yep of course Claire Jones is saying it's a book of stories so translation change the story of course and not only that it was a had parables I mean so the stories I suppose parables and he had an overall message and then he had detail and the people writing the Gospels came much after Jesus by the time they documented them and they disagree amongst themselves and they've obviously they've version and I'm sure their interpretation so yes I accept you can if that's what you mean by corrupted you can use that term if God knew that the

11:20

previous books would be corrupted or changed why wasn't the Horan sent down and preserved from the beginning you see I think this comes back to our misunderstanding of what was it that God wanted from the people it wasn't first of all you have to remember Jesus came just for the Israelites he didn't come for mankind like as far as Muslims are concerned Jesus himself says that I'm only here for the tribes of Israel he doesn't even when he says he kind of commissions his twelve disciples that they will one day he will set them on a

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  title = {{Is the Bible corrupted?}},
  year = {2019},
  month = {9},
  date = {2019-09-14},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/143df7icoyu/s/2/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
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