You do know michaelangelo purposely rewrote the bible into a bunch of metaphors because he was trying to **** it up right? If it wasn't michaelangelo then it was sown other European dude that's name isn't coming to me at the moment.
But the Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered by a young Bedouin shepherd in 1947 confirm the authenticity of today's Bible because they are dated before A.D. 68
Like a control subject against the experiment of time, these scrolls contain every book of the Old Covenant (except Esther), and parts of Mark and Luke, and a Jewish Temple genealogy linking the "Messiah Jesus who was crucified" to the family line of King David (a prerequisite of the Messiah that, since the Temple was destroyed in 80 AD, is impossible for anyone claiming to be the Messiah to prove).
After carefully comparing the manuscripts with what we have today, they discovered that, aside from a tiny number of spelling variations, not a single word was altered from the original Dead Sea Scrolls. How could the Bible have been copied so accurately and faithfully over the many centuries without human error entering into the text? The answer is found in the overwhelming respect and fear of God that motivated Jewish and Christian scholars whose job was to faithfully copy the text of the Bible.
So what of these challenges to the authenticity of the Bible? They interject doubt. They weaken man's resolve. They're motivated by a spirit of the anti-Christ. To resist this, God gave us a miracle in the Dead Sea Scrolls against all the conspiracy theories about Michelangelo, King James, Cesare Borgia, Emperor Constantine, or some European white guy changing the Bible. Because He knew that the enemy would throw so much muck around that some of it would stick. Muslims today use our history on race and these doubts as a wedge between man and God
The Koran is touted as "the latest" and "most intact." But is it authorized? Muhammad transcribed in one period of time all that he heard from Jibril. Is this the way God starts a new religion?
Did God not establish His covenant with Abraham and write the story of our salvation over the course of thousands of years, etched into the history of the Jewish people?
If prophets cannot be wrong and Jesus said, "the work of salvation is complete. Wait for my second coming. Beware of any bringing you any Gospel other than this. Don't trust the Jinn spirits but test them whether they admit Jesus Christ is from God and has come in the flesh," then on what authority or miracles do we accept Muhammad's testimony?
From the Old Covenant to the New, the price for sins is death. The Hebrews sacrificed lambs and goats. Jesus is the lamb of God. Where is the blood sacrifice in Islam? God does nothing in vain therefore he still requires you to believe on the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Works cannot save you and 1 good deed doesn't cover 10x bad acts, no matter what compromise Muhammad said he worked out.
Abraham had two sons: Ishmael and Issac. Ishmael is the son of compromise born of his servant Hagar because he didn't trust and wait on God's promise. Ishmael is spiritually the counterfeit salvation. But God named Issac as He named Abraham, and chose Issac to be sacrificed. And Issac's sons, from Jacob to David to Solomon represent the true line of salvation.
Ishmael received God's grace in the desert but was destined to "be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers." Gen 16:12
Jesus rides a donkey triumphantly into Jerusalem. BRillyMac - Be the head and not the tail.