Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt | thebereancall.org

Hunt, Dave

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Muhammad's early "revelations" in the Qur'an called Jews and Christians the "people of the book" and honored the Books of Moses as inspired of the true God. But when Christians and Jews refused to accept him as a prophet of God, Muhammad turned against them and the tone of the Qur'an changed. Muslims  claim that between the  early parts of the Qur'an, which honored the Bible, and later parts that contradict it, the Bible was perverted in order to make it seem that the Jews were the rightful heirs to the Promised Land.

However, there are manuscripts of the Old Testament dating back nearly nine hundred years before the Qur'an, and they are identical to the Bible we have today. The Bible wasn't "changed"! The Greek Septuagint of the Old Testament, for example, was translated in about 275 BC from even earlier Hebrew manuscripts and is identical to today's text. Furthermore, the Qur'an itself agrees with the Bible that the Jews are the rightful heirs to the land:

"We made a covenant with the Children of Israel (Surah 5:70); We brought the Children of Israel across the [Red] Sea, and Pharaoh with his hosts pursued them...and we verily did allot unto the Children of Israel a fixed abode (10:91; 94); [Pharaoh] wished to scare them from the land, but we drowned him and those with him [in the Red Sea] all together. And we said unto the children of Israel...dwell in the land..." (17:103-104); we delivered the children of Israel...from Pharaoh.... We chose them, purposely, above all creatures (44:30-32); we favored them above all peoples (45:16); Remember Allah's favor to you.... He...gave you what he gave no other of his creatures. O my people, go into the Holy Land which Allah hath ordained for you (95:20-21), etc."