Is the Bible corrupted or is it the Quran and the Hadith corrupted?

Every time I speak with a muslim they are quick to say that the Bible is corrupted; and if anything they are better followers of Jesus' teachings then the Christians.

Somehow, there's something I do not understand. The bible is made up of 66 books written by many different authors over a period of several hundred years in between each revelation; although the New testament had many books in a shorter period of time. All which are inspired by God and written during the lifetime of the prophets and yet there is no contradiction between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Consider the New Testaments which was written by Eyewitnesses during the same lifetime of Jesus Christ and his disciples thereby qualifying the text as biographies and autobiographies versus the oral tradition of the Quran and Hadith which was only put into paper after for more than 100 years later.

I am sure we all have played this social game "whispering" or telephone game. The oral transmission game where the first person makes a statement to another person and this person then repeats the statement to another and so on; we all know that if I said "Jane had a small zit on her forehead" eventually after the message had passed on to more than 20 to 30 people chaining one after another the message I might most likely get back is that "Jane had a serious case of acne all over her head."

Comparing to a passage I read in "The Case For the Real Jesus" by Lee Strobel, The Telephone Game and Snoopy on a particular simulation of reliability of textual criticism whereby students plays the role of a scribe who attempts to reconstruct ancient text from copies of whereby some of the copies have mistakes copied intentionally or unintentionally. Eventually the result of the experiment most of the students is able to reconstruct the messages to get the core meaning, although it may be paraphrase; but the meaning was unchanged.

It is interesting that both the Torah (Old Testament) and New Testament are recognize by Quran that both books are from God yet it gives an interesting contradiction of Angels having no free will; while in the Genesis we read that the Arch Angel, Lucifer, rebelled against God because he wanted to become like God and be worshiped and that he convinced 1/3 of the Angels in heaven to follow him resulting that the rebelling angels were cast down to earth and became demons.

Well, no prizes to guess which text I rather believe and trust in. No matter how good intentions are on oral transmission, I seriously doubt after 100 years it is the very same context that the original was.

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This article extracted from the Wikipedia:

History of Hadith

Traditions of the life of Muhammad and the early history of Islam were passed down orally for more than a hundred years after Muhammad's death in 632.

Muslim historians say that caliph Uthman (the third caliph, or successor of Muhammad, who had formerly been Muhammad's secretary), was the first to urge Muslims to write the Qur'an in a fixed form, and to record the hadith. Uthman's labors were cut short by his assassination, at the hands of aggrieved soldiers, in 656.

The Muslim community (ummah) then fell into a prolonged civil war, which Muslim historians call the Fitna. After the fourth caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib was assassinated in 661, the Umayyad dynasty seized control of the Islamic empire. Ummayad rule was interrupted by a second civil war (the Second Fitna), re-established, and ended in 758 when the Abbasid dynasty seized the caliphate, and held it, at least in name, until 1258.

Muslim historians say that hadith collection and evaluation continued during the first Fitna and the Umayyad period. However, much of this activity was presumably oral transmission from early Muslims to later collectors, or from teachers to students. If any of these early scholars committed any of these collections to writing, they have not survived. The histories and hadith collections we have today were written down at the start of the Abbasid period, more than a hundred years after Muhammad's death.

Scholars of the Abbasid period were faced with a huge corpus of miscellaneous traditions, some of them flatly contradicting each other. Many of these traditions supported differing views on a variety of controversial matters. Scholars had to decide which hadith were to be trusted as authentic and which had been invented for political or theological purposes. To do this, they used a number of techniques which Muslims now call the science of hadith.

Lets not underestimate the power of media blackout by the ruling coalition

Its just another 4 days to D-Day. Polls day for Malaysia. Interestingly most of the young urban folks that I have spoken to tend to be pro-opposition; on the hand, those that are pro-BN are folks that are not so "urban" those that are not expose to the new internet media.

The Chinese predominant concern continues to be, stable economy, better quality of life, cost of renewing leases on their property, education. They tend to be rather short-sighted going for "development" instead of ensuring their rights do not get railroaded. Much like how Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of soup (Genesis 25:29-34); did not value his birthright. And likewise, the Chinese sell their birthright for short term development, prosperity and stability. Do they not realize that when all their rights have been sold and when they have no more rights; whatever prosperity and development in their community will be taken away. Where can they run? Where can they hide? After all, the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia is already in their third generation or forth generation born in Malaysia, this is their homeland it is not China we can't go back to China even if we wanted to.

Perhaps the rich can immigrate to selected host countries, but where ever they go, they will still be second class citizens - "an new immigrant" to their new host countries; but majority will be left here with nowhere to go, left to rot, as second class "Dhimmis" if we allow the current BN government to quietly amend the constitution as times goes by and before we know it - we are an Islamic state; and if you're a non-Muslim you dont have the same rights. Here in Malaysia, the Chinese was one of the founding fathers of Malaysia; we fought for independence with the Malays, and Indians. We should have equal rights to be citizens of the country.

It saddens me that the Chinese are so short-sighted, and the MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) who is suppose to be the protector of Chinese rights can stand meekly while the UMNO railroad and bullies everyone into submission and taking our rights away all the while being insensitive and arrogant. MCA of today is different from MCA of yesteryear; they have now become just lackeys or pets of the dominant party; their MPs dare not make a stand for justice and righteousness; all they are interested is in lining their pockets with money stolen from the citizens tax money.

As John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902) said, "Power Corrupts; Absolute Power corrupts absolutely."

I hope the people open their eyes and see how corrupt this government has become, we are already seeing our rights being eroded. Politicians in power getting away with murder, ripping off the people's hard earn money by creating obscenely expensive projects that fails to deliver which yet need more money to complete.

And thus this is how effective is media blackout by the ruling coalition government. There is no freedom of press. Can this be changed? I only hope that the "aware" will tell the "unawares" of the sins of the present government. Its time they wakeup, and I hope its not too late.