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Most Christians believe The Bible to be absolutely, or at least substantially true. Muslims believe the Bible to be substantially true, while the Qur'an is absolutely true, as they believe it comes from God. However, the question asks us to look beyond mere belief.

Wherever the Qur'an is based on the Bible, then to the extent that the Bible is true or untrue, the Qur'an is also true or untrue. When the Qur'an adds more recent material, such as God's instructions to Muhammad, then it is a matter of faith for Muslims that this is true, while others might believe that this material is not based on fact.

The truth of both can be judged by what they say in common. The Bible can not be literally true when it says that the world was created in just six days, and that the sun was created after grasses, herbs and trees (Genesis 1:12-18), because science says these things are impossible. The Qur'an follows the biblical creation closely and therefore shares the Bible's errors. The Bible can not be right when it says that the world was covered by a great Flood that killed all living things not on Noah's Ark. The Qur'an follows the biblical story closely and therefore shares the Bible's errors.

For true believers, it is not important which book is true or even whether either is true in terms of history and science. For Christians, the Bible is spiritually true. For Muslims, the Qur'an is spiritually true.

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