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Rather than playing word games, wouldn't it be easier to ask Muslims whether their god is the god of the Judeo-Christian Bible? Isn't that what matters?If that's what Muslims believe, that's the end of the story. Muslims would be the final authority on their own beliefs, yes? Unless you think they're all lying.[This message has been edited by Zhimbo, 10-06-2003]

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When copying scripture, the scribes were required to copy a letter at a time, looking at the text and copying by the letter, not the whole word. This is how careful they were to get it right.

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This is contradicted by

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Then, it is obvious by the time of the Qumram colony that things were not copied exactly-- there were multiple variants. All the texts we have are after this period, so we can't really know what is a exact copy or not.

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Surely you see that both your assertion and John's can't BOTH be right...or, at least, that if you're right it didn't stop variants from emerging and thus is irrelevant as a reply. Or is John wrong?[This message has been edited by Zhimbo, 10-15-2003]