It’s SHOCKINGLY common for the majority of Muslims to BELIEVE what dishonest Sheiks, Imams and scholars have INVENTED (such as the lie that the Torah and Gospel became CHANGED BEFORE the 7th century so that Allah sent the Qur’an to REPLACE them) rather than going with what the Qur’an ACTUALLY SAYS about the PRESERVATION of the Torah and Gospel at the time of Muhammad IN THE 7TH CENTURY.
The Muslim is left with no choice but to believe in (conspiracy theories) the myth of a book called the “Gospel of Jesus Christ” which either disappeared or got corrupted/changed or partly changed (by the Romans, Greek philosophers, Paul, the Church or Nicea) before the Qur’an came as a final revelation to “replace”, “restore” or “correct” what had been corrupted!
But in the following FOUR POINTS and self explanatory verses with little or no CONTEXT required, what does the Qur’an ACTUALLY SAY?
1. If the Qur’an intended to say that the Torah and Gospel are disappeared, then the Qur’an should instead have written “that the Torah and Gospel are NO LONGER WITH THEM”!
BUT THE QUR’AN STATES THE OPPOSITE!
Sura 7:156-157: “And I will write down (my mercy) for those who are righteous and give alms and who believe in our signs; who follow the apostle, the unlettered prophet, whom they find written in the Torah and the Gospel THAT IS WITH THEM.” (See QS 2:89 as well).
2. If the Qur’an claims the Torah and Gospel to be corrupt, then it should have appointed Muslims or the Qur’an to be JUDGE OVER the Jews and Christians rather than having Jews and Christians judge by the Torah and Gospel!
Further, If the Qur’an claims the Torah and Gospel to be corrupt, the Qur’an would have PRAISED the Jews and Christians who TURN AWAY from the corrupted Torah and Gospel as TRUE BELIEVERS! It would have commanded the Jews and Christians to ABANDON the Torah and Gospel and instead judge by the QUR’AN!
BUT THE QUR’AN STATES THE OPPOSITE!
5:43. And HOW should they APPOINT YOU THEIR JUDGE whilst they HAVE WITH THEM the Torah which contains the law (and judgment) of Allâh. Yet they turn their backs even after that (you judge between them). And such people ARE NOT TRUE BELIEVERS (neither in the Qur’ân nor in the Torah).
The Qur’an recognizes the three communities made up of Jews, Christians and Muslims according the laws/revelations given to each community. Each community is judged by its law/revelation:
5:48. “… For each one of you did We prescribe a spiritual law and a well-defined way. And if Allâh had so willed He might have made you all ONE COMMUNITY, but He wishes to show your perfection that He has endowed you with. Therefore vie one with another in good deeds… “
5:47. And let the followers of the EVANGEL judge according to what Allâh has revealed therein. And indeed those who DO NOT JUDGE according to what Allâh has revealed it is these who are the real DISOBEDIENT”.
Clearly, Allah repeatedly says the Jews and Christians must judge themselves by the Torah and Gospel, NOT the Qur’an!
3. If the Qur’an claims the Torah and Gospel to be corrupted, then the verse below should have read “Say, O People of the Book! You are not (founded) on anything UNTIL you STOP PERFORMING the Torah and the Gospel, because what was revealed to you from your Lord is now CORRUPTED”!
BUT THE QUR’AN STATES THE OPPOSITE! Sura 5:71:
“Say, O People of the Book! You are not (founded) on anything UNTIL you PERFORM the TORAH and the GOSPEL, and what was revealed to you from your Lord.”
4. If the previous scriptures disappeared or are partly corrupted, Allah should have stated that the previous scriptures NO LONGER REMAIN, or PARTLY REMAIN or are PARTLY CORRUPTED.
BUT THE QUR’AN STATES THE OPPOSITE!
3:3. He has revealed to you gradually this perfect Book (-the Qur’ân) which meets all your requirements, fulfilling that which PRECEDED it AND WHICH STILL REMAIN. He revealed the Torah and the Evangel”
Repeatedly in these verses, Allah’s issue is never with CORRUPTION of the previous scriptures but is about some among the Jews and Christians who fail to OBSERVE the Torah and Gospel or try to distort the MEANINGS of what is in their scriptures.
Historically and archeologically there are thousands of manuscripts of the Torah and Gospel which the Jews and Christians had with them before and during the 7th century which are exactly the same as the Torah and Gospels Jews and Christians have with them today.
It would require someone with a serious cognitive dissonance to ACCEPT what the Qur’an ACTUALLY SAYS about the preservation of Gospel and yet REJECT the Gospel as corrupted or disappeared!
This is the dilemma Allah places Muslims in: if you go to the preserved Gospel which Christians had with them in the 7th century, then you easily find that the Qur’an foolishly CONTRADICTS itself by confirming the Gospel which preaches the crucifixion of the Son of God, rejects Allah as a false god, identifies Muhammad as a false prophet and Jibreel of Islam a satanic imitation of the true Gabriel of the Gospel.