There are three hadiths in Sahih Bukhari, informing us that Angel Gabriel used to recite the Qur'an with the Prophet once a year............
Galatians 1:8-9 >
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
I'm sorry, but God already knew this religion called Islam was going to be formed and have false teachings contrary to the gospel. Therefore this warning was given by the apostle Paul.
It is clear for the above reasons that there is no comparison between the Qur’an and other Holy Scriptures, in the matter of recording and passing on to future generations. While the books of the Old and New Testaments, for example, were written, edited and compiled over long periods, sometimes centuries, the text of the Qur'an, once revelation had ceased, has remained the same, up to this very day.
Actually, because of the abundance of manuscript evidence, one can see if any scribe would make a mistake in translating God's Holy word (the Bible). Yeah there are probably minor scribal errors (no printing press of microsoft word editing in those times), or the decaying of words in a manuscript, but because God has supplied the Holy Bible with so much manuscripts, the mistakes can easily be fixed. So the overall theme of the Bible is kept intact.
When we consider the history of the Bible, we find that the story is entirely different. For one thing, the Bible is not one book; no Christian can claim it to be one book, revealed by God to one Prophet. Rather, according to some Christian scholars, it is “a library of books”. This means that the Bible was composed by many authors at different stages in history. This is a major difference between the Qur’an and the Bible.
This is also why the Bible is more authentic than the Qu'ran. It has more than one witness (authors) to declare its truth. And they all unite for one message, which leads to the coming of the Messiah. Only God could have planned it that perfectly.
‘The original copies of the New Testament books have, of course, long since disappeared. This fact should not cause surprise. In the first place, they were written on papyrus, a very fragile and perishable material. In the second place, and probably of even more importance, the original copies of the NT [new testament] books were not looked upon as scripture by those of the early Christian communities.’ (George
Arthur Buttrick - Ed.: The Interpreter's Dictionary Of The Bible, Volume 1, p. 599 – under: ‘Text, New Testament').
Anyone who reads this and believes it, should redo their research. Besides, there is no proof that you have the originals of the Qu'ran. It all comes down to faith on your end also. But Christianity was not only revealed before Islam, Christianity also affects the conscience by God humbling Himself and coming in human form to die for the sins of man and give eternal life for those who put their faith in Him. Islam does not show such love.
The New Testament consists of 39 books. The first four are known as the Gospels, which narrate the story of Jesus. The remaining books were written by his supposed disciples. The most prominent among them was St. Paul, who wrote some thirteen books. The irony of the matter is that this St. Paul, though a contemporary of Jesus, has never met him, nor was he among the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus himself! And yet, it is his ideas, rather than those of Jesus or any of his disciples, that have given most shape to modern Christianity!
reading the book of Acts and Paul's encounter with Christ shall change your mind.
The four Gospel writers are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Among the disciples of Jesus, we find all these names except that of Luke. The Church fathers have been teaching their followers that the Gospel writers were “eyewitnesses” to the acts of Jesus. But modern research points out that the Gospel writers and the disciples were different persons. For example, there was a disciple called Matthew, but the Gospel of Matthew was not written by this Matthew! The King James Version of the Gospels points to this fact, see the titles of the Gospels: Gospel according to Matthew, Gospel according to Mark… etc., and not Gospel by Matthew, Gospel by Mark etc.
Your just playing with words here. "By" or "Acccording", it does not make a difference. Most Muslims who come on this forum like to "strive at gnats" and "swallow camels."
The Christian teaching is that these Gospels, as well as the rest of the New Testament, were the “word of God”. They contend that the Gospel writers were inspired by God while writing, and so could not go wrong. If this were true, how could they explain the inconsistencies among the various gospels as to many details? For instance Matthew and Luke give two different genealogies for Jesus.
It is quite possible that one of the geneologies expounds into the lineage of Mary while the other goes into Joseph's. But since it was a virgin birth, one can see confusion (not contradiction, but paradox) happening in the geneologies.
There are many more internal evidences in the Biblical books, which prove that these books were not reliably guarded from corruption. But for our purpose, I hope the foregoing will suffice. It is quite evident, from the above facts, that the Holy Qur’an as we have it now, is an authentic text. This is while the claim about the Bible (both the Old and the New Testaments) as authentic, is a spurious one.
There is a response to every alleged "inconsistancy." We can also play the same game with ythe Qu'ran.