Islam says that the Christian Bible, especially the new testament, can't be true because:
1) there are so many different Bible translations, and
2) some translations leave out verses that others retain.
Yet, the dilemma lies in the fact that the Quran itself has many English translations that differ from one another, and in the fact that there are several versions of the Quran, each differing from what is written in each other (in Arabic), some adding more chapters and verses than the others. Some sentences are not even the same, with the subject being changed.
So, if the Muslim invalidates the Bible, for the reasons given, then he must also invalidate his own Quran.
The third Caliph Uthman (who reigned from AD 644-656) even ordered the burning of copies of the Quran he thought were not accurate. He did this because the various copies of the Quran existing in his time had differences in the manuscripts and discrepancies. How do we know that Uthman didn't burn the true Quran? However, even today we still have many differing versions of the Quran.
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