02-09-2011, 11:21 PM
judge Wrote:What is the basis for saying this?
anthea26 Wrote:They claim that Christians "changed and corrupted the gospels" and the person who had the original version was a monk named Bahira who also 'foretold' Muhammad's prophethood according to Islamic tradition.
Sounds like a case of the "lost original." It's an easy way to support a corruption of the text: by claiming a hypothetical ancestor document with a certain reading. Who needs textual evidence when we have hearsay?
Didn't the scribes of Hebrew Matthew also claim that they were copying old texts... ones that are now "lost?"