text: do muslims actually believe this? "god explained by his words that "you wouldn't be able to do it" & "you will never do it". means you will not be able to corrupt my book. the same mistake of the bible will not occur again to my book (quran). " quoted from a muslim answerer.  do you not understand what that means? the whole concept of a monotheistic deity has to be based on him being omniscient. by admiting allah made a mistake you are in effect admitting islam is wrong.. if you insist, i will answer. i will give now a short answer , but later on i want to give a real long answer. i have final exams; therefore, i have hurry. remind me , again! anyway, first of all i wonna know the exact part of quran from which this muslim has quoted these words. i didn't memorized the whole book . and i want to read this part , again because i want to read the whole paragraph.  here is my answer. you are right. god is omniscient and not only omniscient. time has no meaning for him. he is not time dependent. there is no before or after for him. so, we cant talk about "he made a mistake (past) but will(future) not do again." . quran speaks clearly about the perfection of quran and its invulnurability. you know my answer about the bible's corruption . so, there is no god's mistake , ther is only choice, order and creation of the god, which is mistakeless. what happened to bible was not a mistake, but may be a sign of it completed its duty and an other one will come. the deaths of the prophets was the same thing, their duty was over. they completed it. so, there is no mistake about it. this person has given to you a wrong answer or couldn't explain his thought clearly and made a mistake.  besides that! these two sentences from quran (but i want to see the whole paragraph, i hope they are really quotes.) means that:  second one (you will never do it) is pretty clear.  first one (you wouldn't be able to do it) is telling about the mistake of people. it is a sentece like : if you are really true believers, you wouldn't be able to do it" because true believers respect the god and this respect contains also a fear! fear of doing such a great mistakes which will corrupt the book of god. people who corrupted the bible and old tastament will pay for it! they were just liers , who seemed some times as good people or real priests or what ever. this is underlined with these words of quran. i am not adding to these group every one. there were great christian saints even after corruption. god bless them! but esspecially in the times of old testament , man of religion changed it a lot for their own good and won more power over people! i think that is enough for now! funny thing is this sentence doesn't mean your comment. your answer is manipulating the meaning. ok, may be you really understand it  that way and that's why you asked it. i hope it was a misunderstanding  or questioning not a manipulation.  bye for now!  when you can find me the correct numbers of the quote, i will read the whole paragraph. i also will try to find it. it is my responsibility and i will keep it!