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From: ta00est@unccvax.uncc.edu (elizabeth s tallant)
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Subject: The Torah in the Koran
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Date: 29 Nov 90 18:00:23 GMT
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Thank you very much for your replies regarding the Torah and its relation
to the Koran.  To keep from typing the same letter over and over, I have
written the following form letter, which I will alter slightly for each
individual response.

>From what I now understand, Islam teaches that the Torah was altered
some time between the death of Christ and the birth of Mohammed.  This 
answer leaves me with more questions than I had before.  Anyone who
wishes to answer them is quite welcome.   

1)  How does Islam explain the manuscripts dating back to over 1,000
    years before the birth of Christ which say the same thing that the
    Old Testament says today?

2)  If Islam teaches that the Torah has been altered, then why has the
    Koran also not been altered?

3)  Since the Bible (which includes the Torah) was obviously in existence
    at the time of Mohammed, is it not possible that people altered the 
    Bible, changed its style similar to that in the book of Psalms, and
    made it into the Koran?

Thanks,

Elizabeth