Islam has a love-hate relationship with the Bible.
1) Love:
The Bible gives Islam the sense that it is an ancient religion. Islam would not have credibility if "Allah", the creator of the universe, just arrived in the seventh century with just one prophet.
Muslims also love that they can try to convert Christians by showing that their simple monotheism appears to be more logical. Islam does not have a lot of evidence in favor of it, so Muslims tend to have a culture of discrediting others' religions instead of supplying positive evidence.
2) Hate:
Contrary to what you would think from reading the Quran, the message of the Bible is a lot different from the Quran. If the Quran is a continuation or correction of the Bible, then why is one so different from the other? Islam claims that the prophets of the Bible were actually Muslim, so they are in the embarrassing situation of having to explain how the Bible got off-track from its "original" Muslim state.
So if you can demonstrate that the Bible has not changed then you can go a long way towards showing that Islam is false. The Bible is very different from the Quran, so Muslims need to show a lot of change.
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