Deedat Confuses "Versions" with "Texts"
Ahmed Deedat was a wildly popular Islamic apologist, but his knowledge of the textual critical principles of the New Testament was astoundingly shallow and poor. Here is an example.
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Don't Muslims also have different versions of the Qur 'an for Arabs?
The question was, do Muslims also have different versions of the
Qur 'an? We have no different versions. See, translations, you have a choice of words.
Like, the word I quoted you, from the Gospel of Saint John, chapter 18, verse 9, where it says,
I have, that's one translation. Another one says, not one or none choice of words.
Not a single one. These are what is called choice. But the version is, as the brother was trying to explain, he said that the verse on the
Trinity is an interpolation. He said that. Interpolation.
Interpolation means something that has been pushed into it, which is not supposed to be there. And in the
Bible he presented to me, that verse is a part of the text. In other words, now that's a version.
You open another book, the Roman Catholic version of the
Bible, which is an RSV. They threw it out of the fabrication, that verse.
This RSV is a different version. You remember the verse I quoted you? Jesus telling
Paul, why kick at Christ? That verse, that filthy, dirty verse, is now thrown out of this as an interpolation.
As a fabrication. As an adulteration. You see the version now.