Kitab Bible Diakui Kitab Karangan Manusia?

Sekiranya anda pernah menonton perdebatan antara Ahmad Deedat dengan seorang Paderi besar Kristian, pasti anda mengetahui bahawa terdapat pelbagai revision kitab Bible berada di pasaran. Dan setiap revision ini berbeza antara satu sama lain. Mungkin anda tertanya-tanya, mengapa terlalu banyak perbezaan antara kitab-kitab yang semuanya diiktiraf sebagai Bible ini?

Buku 'Misquoting Jesus - The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible & Why' sedikit sebanyak mengupas persoalan ini. Buku ini ditulis oleh seorang Kristian yang mengkaji Bible secara mendalam, dan setahu saya, masih kekal seorang Kristian. Beliau mengulas secara panjang lebar daripada pelbagai segi. Menarik sekali untuk dihayati.

Saya tidak bermaksud untuk mempromosikan buku Kristian di sini, tetapi saya cuba mengajak pembaca membuka minda untuk mengetahui ajaran agama lain. Semoga dengan mengetahui apa yang diyakini oleh agama lain, kita mampu menyebarluaskan kebenaran yang dibawa Islam. Tak begitu?

Saya sertakan sinopsis ringkas buku tersebut:

In short, my study of the Greek New Testament, and my investigations into the manuscripts that contain it, led to a radical rethinking of my understanding of what the Bible is. This was a seismic change for me. Before this—starting with my bornagain experience in high school, through my fundamentalist days at Moody, and on through my evangelical days at Wheaton—my faith had been based completely on a certain view of the Bible as the fully inspired, inerrant word of God. Now I no longer saw the Bible that way. The Bible began to appear to me as a very human book. Just as human scribes had copied, and changed, the texts of scripture, so too had human authors originally written the texts of scripture. This was a human book from beginning to end. It was written by different human authors at different times and in different places to address different needs. Many of these authors no doubt felt they were inspired by God to say what they did, but they had their own perspectives, their own beliefs, their own views, their own needs, their own desires, their own understandings, their own theologies; and these perspectives, beliefs, views, needs,desires, understandings, and theologies informed everything they said. In all these ways they differed from one another. Among other things, this meant that Mark did not say the same thing that Luke said because he didn't mean the same thing as Luke. John is different from Matthew—not the same. Paul is different from Acts. And James is different from Paul. Each author is a human author and needs to be read for what he (assuming they were all men) has to say, not assuming that what he says is the same, or conformable to, or consistent with what every other author has to say. The Bible, at the end of the day, is a very human book.

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Hayatilah hakikat disebalik kitab Bible ataupun Injil ini. Namun janganlah pula anda (sekiranya Islam) terpengaruh dengan kefahaman penulis buku tersebut. Umat Islam harus yakin bahawa Al-Quran berbeza dengan kitab-kitab sebelumnya (Zabur, Taurat dan Injil). Al-Quran telah dijamin oleh Allah S.W.T akan kesucian dan ketulenannya. Siapakah yang lebih layak memberi jaminan selain Allah Yang Maha Kuasa?

Akhirul kalam, ini sekadar perkongsian bersama dengan pembaca sekalian. Saya tak bermaksud memainkan isu keagamaan dan memperlekehkan mana-mana agama. Cuma sekadar info untuk tatapan semua pembaca. Andai ada yang tersinggung, maafkan saya.

Bukakan Minda, Lapangkan Hati, Tenangkan Jiwa.

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