Is there any proof that the Torah is a corrupted text?

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All religious knowledge through scripture is seen through a glass darkly. If the Torah is "corrupt" then I am afraid so is the Koran. When you hear how the Koran was first put together: disparate oral histories cobbled together in a panic some generations after its founder's death, its representation as perfect becomes highly questionable. If you believe the Koran has survived such a journey untouched by time and man, then I wish you well on your trip to Syria.

Penn and Teller have an amusing example about Elvis in this regard, people dispute his favourite meal, his drug taking, things he said, even whether he actually died. This man was arguably more widely known during his lifetime than any of the prophets, lived in an age of widespread literacy and photography. Yet only decades after his death people already dispute "facts" about him and his life. What are the chances of finding unaltered truth about a man who lived a thousand or two or three thousand years ago?

Corruption and and the wear of time has never been much of an issue for Christians, the Bible is not the equivalent of the Koran, it has never claimed to be absolute history or perfect revelation. I mean just look at the layout of the book. There are 4 Gospels, 4 different versions of the same story. To be a Christian fundamentalist requires mental acrobatics only an idiot savant can perform, most are and should be ignored. The only sane interpretation, shared by most of our Christian ancestors, is that all 4 stories are true where it matters they be true. This attitude allows Christians to blatantly ignore some behaviour rather specifically endorsed in the Bible by writing them off as a cultural artefacts rather than something to be emulated. Muslims unfortunately seem to struggle with this to this day, even in the secular west they seem to living Arab culture writ large.

Others have noted your young age, I understand the need for certainty and answers to all questions, Islam will offer them gladly, right or wrong. Some advice from a slightly older man: always retain doubts, always be prepared to change your mind if a convincing argument is presented. If you do not, you will always be a slave to other men, even if they claim you are a slave of Allah.

Wow! You come in here looking for ammunition to attack other peoples religions, but then get offended when someone eludes too yours might not be true? What a great showing of the hypocrisy that is religion.

All of them are corrupted and are the word of men not god, of course stuff has been added and taken out over the centuries. Organized religion is all bogus.