Oldest Christian Bible matches todays?

Question

The oldest known copy of the Bibles New Testament as well as parts of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, known as the Codex Sinaiticus and dating from the 4th century (300 A.D. to 399 A.D....that is before Muhommad b.570-d.632), has been deciphered and it matches todays Bible. Considering that Muhommad said that the Bible was valid...and considering that Muslims have believed that the modern Bible is corrupted...what does this mean? Should Muslims begin to study the Bible now?

It was released online today so you can check it out for yourself. I did.

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/07/24/online-codex-sinaiticus.html?ref=rss

Answer 1

Actually I'm not sure on what grounds you're saying its the exact same.  In the Codex, there is no mention of Jesus ascending to heaven in the Book of Luke.

Obviously there is now.

If it wasn't in the Bible 300-400 years after Christ, when and how and why did it find its way in now?

And if something that major could be added, what else could have been added?

So yes, I agree, Muslims should study the bible, always.

EDIT:

@Asker - That website may have been released today.  But the Codex Sinaticus was discovered, as you well know, many many years ago.  Just because it wasn't scanned doesn't mean it wasn't there my good friend.  That's how I would know.

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Answer 2

Salam for you my dear aladin. In the Qur'an Allah spoke that the original Zabur,Torakh and Bible are valid and in line with Qur'an although those old holy books were not as complete as the newest one Qur'an.The taukhid religion(only one God that is Allah without ally) is consistent since Adam and all other prophets upto the last prophet Muhammad pbuh.Those holy books were given by Allah through each prophet in his related era But now the todays Bible was corrupted so is not genuine anymore. This means that we could not believe in the todays Bible.It is no use for muslims to study Bible because the new and most complete and genuine one has been given by Allah that is the holy Qur'an.

Answer 3

I don't know about whether Muslims should read the Bible but I do know about three years of studying at university books and the making thereof that early copies of the bible and present day bibles are very similiar to one another. There are no glaring errors or differences in the text unless they are made by the scholar ie the so called dirty bible where it was copied in the 10 commandments that thou shalt commit adultery!

Answer 4

Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. told us to believe in the original bible, not the current one, he was the one who informed us of the corruption in the bible.

Answer 5

I believe this find is no different than the 'Piltdown Man' find. If you read up on 'Piltdown Man' It was when evolutionists were unable to find even a single fossil to verify their theory, they took recourse to fraud. The "Piltdown Man" fossil, which was produced by mounting a human skull onto an orangutan jaw and deceived the world of science for 40 years, was the most notorious of these frauds.

The Qur’an is the only religious scripture on the face of the earth which has been maintained in its original form. All the other religious scriptures, of all the other religions have interpolations, additions, deletions or revisions. The Qur’an has been in the memory of a multitude of people, intact in its original form ever since its revelation, and now there are hundreds of thousands of people who have preserved it in their memory. Moreover, if you compare the copies made by Caliph Uthman (r.a) from the original Qur’an which is yet present in the museum in Tashkent and in Koptaki museum in Turkey, they are the same as the ones we possess today.

The bible has been proven scientifically incorrect, the Qur'an has not. I can give you 1001 contradictions in the Bible. Find me one in the Qur'an?

Answer 6

I think ppl should beleive whatever teh h**l they want... I think everyone should study all religions and respect them and respect the ppl we come into contact with. Everyone deserves a chance first. The bible has condradictions and so does the quran... I mean these religions are based on peoples opinions on god. whether they were sent or not. Who suffers if Jesus and Mohammed didnt exist, or were mental patients? We do. Just because we are born and given a book to follow, doesnt mean that any of those books are correct. Most of you ppl would get a new microwave if a study showed that old ones give more radiation, however books like the bible and quran are thousands year old and we believe them and some even kill for it. No matter how much they may make our brain impure. There is a god out there and i am sure he made it like this, all different nationalities, different religions, different skin, different eyes, different cultures to see how we would all treat each other. Ur bible is inside you everyday. Your emotions are ur bible, when you do bad, you feel it, when you do good , you feel it. God is in you already, no religion needs a book to know that, just some ppl cant see that bcos they are blinded by what a book says of an author they never knew or met.

Answer 7

I personally think Muslims as well as everyone else whether they are religious or not should study other religions and holy books.

Now the corruption of the bible is open to debate, as is the authenticity of the Qu'ran--that is just something we all must accept. Some people think one way, others think another.

But what I think the problem people have with calling the bible corrupt is that a lot of translations are dubbed as "versions." This makes people think there are numerous versions as in revisions. The Qu'ran has all kinds of translations, but as far as I know, and I could be wrong, no council of Islam has ever chosen one 'official' translation, while some churches have chosen one 'official' version.

To get really technical, the ONLY authentic bible is the one written in hebrew/aramaic/greek. And the ONLY authentic Qu'ran is written in Qu'ranical arabic.

Anyway, because Muslims are supposed to accept the books that came before them as well, it is only fair to at least READ the Injil and understand it.

Today, the bible in its 'original' form containing all of the books it contained when the first book was produced, is the Catholic bible. In the Catholic bible, the Old Testament contains the books Martin Luther removed.

Answer 8

We want the bible that was sent as revelation to jesus by Allah and not written by others through "inspiration" or what not.

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