Official source
The Qur'an
Quran.com presentation of the Qur'an with English translation support, used for mainstream Islamic source anchors.
The Qur'an, Quran.com, accessed June 16, 2026.
Open sourceObjection
The Bible Is Corrupted
The Bible has been corrupted, so Christians no longer possess the Injil or reliable revelation given to Jesus.
Textual variants are real, but the New Testament message has not disappeared; Christians can distinguish variants from total loss and can ask where, when, and by whom the alleged lost Injil was replaced.
Define tahrif
Muslim arguments may mean that Jews and Christians misread Scripture or that the text itself was altered. Those are different claims and need different evidence.
Concede real textual issues without overstating them
Christian scholarship commonly flags the longer ending of Mark, the woman caught in adultery, and the Comma Johanneum as later textual issues. Core Christian doctrine does not rest on those passages, and the manuscript evidence lets readers identify the issue rather than hide it.
Ask about the Injil claim
If the original Injil was a lost book given to Jesus and replaced by the canonical Gospels, the claim needs public evidence: when it disappeared, who replaced it, and why no trace of that replacement history explains the early Christian proclamation.
Sources
Primary source
al-Fisal
Medieval Muslim polemical source associated with strong textual-corruption arguments.
Ibn Hazm, al-Fisal fi al-milal wa-al-ahwa wa-al-nihal.
Reference
The Text of the New Testament
Reference work on New Testament textual transmission.
Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration, 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 2005.
Secondary context
Misquoting Jesus
Critical popular work on New Testament textual variants.
Bart D. Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, HarperOne, 2005.
Secondary context
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Scholarly work on Gospel testimony and eyewitness memory.
Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, 2nd ed., Eerdmans, 2017.
Reference
BibleRef
Reference pages used for BibleRef-first links to Scripture passages.
BibleRef, accessed June 16, 2026.
Open source