Is the Bible Still the Word of God?

006.034 وَلَقَدْ كُذِّبَتْ رُسُلٌ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ فَصَبَرُوا عَلَى

مَا كُذِّبُوا وَأُوذُوا حَتَّى أَتَاهُمْ نَصْرُنَا وَلا مُبَدِّلَ لِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ وَلَقَدْ جَاءَكَ مِنْ نَبَإِ الْمُرْسَلِينَ
006.034 Rejected were the messengers before thee: with patience and constancy they bore their rejection and their wrongs,

Here Allah says that it has happened before. Prophets have been derided and 

they exhibited patience in the face of rejection.

 until Our aid did reach them: 

Now God says that He always helps His messengers. Then He says:

there is none that can alter the words (and decrees) of Allah. Already hast

 thou received some account of those messengers.

As you can see from the context, the word of Allah here does not mean Torah

, Gospel etc. It simply means that no one can change the law of God regarding 

the clash of truth and falsehood. The Explanation given by Maududi is 

The point emphasized here is that no one has the power to 

change God's Law regarding the conflict between Truth and 

falsehood. Lovers of Truth must of necessity pass through 

trials and persecution so as to be gradually tempered. 

Their endurance, their honastyy of conviction, their 

readiness to sacrifice and to undertake all risk for their

 cause, the strength of their faith and the extent of 

their trust in God must be tested. They must pass through

 this phase of persecution to develop in thenselves those

 qualities which can be developed nowhere else but on 

earth. They are also required to defeat the forces of 

ignorance by virtue of their moral excellence and the 

nobility of their character. Only after they have 

established their moral superiority over their adversaries

 will God's help arrive. No one can secure that help before

 hand.(www.tafheem.net)

010.034 قُلْ هَلْ مِنْ شُرَكَائِكُمْ مَنْ يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ قُلِ اللَّهُ يَبْدَأُ الْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُ فَأَنَّى تُؤْفَكُونَ

010.034 Say: "Of your 'partners', can any originate creation and repeat it?" 

Say:  "It is Allah Who originates creation and repeats it: then how are ye 

deluded away (from the truth)?"

Allah is telling prophet Muhammad to ask the pagans of Makkah whether their 

gods had the capability to create something from nothing and then reproduce 

it? Polytheists generally consider even their gods to be limited in power. 

This verse underlines that fact. No reference to the gospel/torah here. 

I think you are referring to 10:94, not 10:34. But before discussing that, let me give you the Muslim perspective of the Bible. We believe that those parts of the Bible which match with the Quran may be God�s word e.g prophecies regarding prophet Muhammad. Those parts which conflict Quran are certainly not God�s word e.g God resting on the seventh day (in Islam God does not require rest). Those portions which neither conflict with Quran nor agree with it may or may not be God�s word. But as a whole, Muslims do not require the Bible since we have the Quran which is complete guidance to us. Now as for the context of Chapter 10 of Quran, it tells us the story of  prophet Moses in the context. It was impossible for an illiterate man in the middle of the desert to be aware of that story. So after the narration, Allah tells us that prophet Muhammad is not making this story up. You can go and ask the Jews about prophet Moses. They will tell you pretty much the same story.

010.094 فَإِنْ كُنْتَ فِي شَكٍّ مِمَّا أَنْزَلْنَا إِلَيْكَ فَاسْأَلِ الَّذِينَ يَقْرَءُونَ الْكِتَابَ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ لَقَدْ جَاءَكَ الْحَقُّ مِنْ رَبِّكَ فَلا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمُمْتَرِينَ

010.094 If thou wert in doubt as to what We have revealed unto thee, then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee:  the Truth hath indeed come to thee from thy Lord: so be in no wise of those in doubt.

Al-Qur'an, 010.094 (Yunus [Jonah])

Text Copied from DivineIslam's Qur'an Viewer software v2.910

This verse does not say that no one can change God�s word. I have no idea how you came up with that.

A true Muslim is obliged to believe in all the revelations of God. Sura 2:136; 4:136; 29:46

Completely agree here. We should believe in all previous revelations of God and not their corrupted and unauthentic forms.

The Quran makes no distinction between God's revelations

Sura 2:136 

Let me take a stab in the dark. You have never read Quran in context. You have never read these verses carefully or in context. Am I right?

002.136 قُولُوا آمَنَّا بِاللَّهِ وَمَا أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَمَا أُنْزِلَ إِلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَإِسْمَاعِيلَ وَإِسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ وَالأسْبَاطِ وَمَا أُوتِيَ مُوسَى وَعِيسَى وَمَا أُوتِيَ النَّبِيُّونَ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ لا نُفَرِّقُ بَيْنَ أَحَدٍ مِنْهُمْ وَنَحْنُ لَهُ مُسْلِمُونَ

002.136 Say ye: "We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to Allah (in Islam)."

Al-Qur'an, 002.136 (Al-Baqara [The Cow])

Text Copied from DivineIslam's Qur'an Viewer software v2.910

Here Allah is telling us not to distinguish between messengers, meaning I cannot say that I believe in Muhammad but I don�t believe in Jesus. Where did you get the idea that Quran makes no distinctions between God�s revelations?

1. Ali al Tabari (d 855) who accepted the Gospel texts

2. Al Bukhari (810-870)

3. Al Mas'udi (956)

4. Abu Ali husain bin Sina (1037)

5. Al Ghazali (1111) who did not accept his teachings

6. Ibn Khaldun (1406) ditto

Even I will accept the �Gospel text� if the gospel here is the gospel of Jesus revealed by God. But by gospel if you mean gospels of Mark, Luke, John, Mathew then all Muslims along with many historians agree that these scriptures have been corrupted and we don�t even know who their true authors are.

In reality it is not up to the People of the Book to 

prove their Book is uncorrupted 

I agree. Why should you be given a task which is 

impossible?

but up to the Muhammadans to do so based on any 'original'

 book that would show these corruptions.

I�m not sure what you mean by �Muhammadans�. But anyway, Muslims don�t

 need to disprove the Bible by presenting another original book which has been

 lost by Christians. They can simply do that by pointing out scientific and

 mathematical errors, internal contradictions

(http://www.answering-christianity.com/bassam_zawadi/contradictions_in_nt.htm) , and verses which implicate prophets committing adultery (Gen 19:33-36 here prophet lot drank wine and slept with his daughter, twice. How can prophets, best of human beings commit incest? This clearly proves that this account of Lot along with many other verses of the Bible is forgery).

I'll wait for you or anyone to produce that book with the 

corruptions, 

You are waiting for us to produce a book with corruptions? Well there is the 

Bible�..

 or does it just sound nice to repeat what you heard over 

and over again without even asking or showing a shred of 

evidence to support your argument.

I agree that it wouldn�t be okay if a Muslim says Bible is corrupt over and over

 again without any shred of evidence. But the problem for us is that there is 

just so much evidence that it would be difficult to give it all. So I�ll just give 

some proof that Bible is corrupted. 

http://www.answering-christianity.com/contra.htm

http://www.jamaat.net/bible/BibleIntro.html

I hope that�s more than a �shred� of evidence

Peace