Reddit reply in r/AcademicQuran: khalil andanis position on the injīl — August 14, 2025 | Ali Shukri Amin

I think there's an implicit distinction between what God Revealed as the Torah & Injīl and what the Torah & Injīl are perceived as currently in the Quranic milleu.

The Quran describes God as Revealing the Torah & Injīl but then also extensively describes how Ahl al-Kitab "threw the Book behind them as if they did not know," "altering the words from their places", "from them are unlearned who do not know the Book except for fantasies and they are guessing", "write the book with their hands and claim this is from God for a paltry price" etc.

It seems that the Quran refers to the Torah & the Injil as perfect Revelations at the time of their Revelation in some places and then in other places is referring to what it perceives as a corruption of the original Torah/Injil (and the traditions around them) which the Jews/Christians of Arabia refer to.

If that's the case then the Quran is claiming that the Injil which was given to Isa is not the four gospels or the NT (although snippets of that oral Revelation may be there) but rather something that no longer exists in whole, yet since the Christians call their book Jesus' Revelation it also refers to what they have as the "Injil."

I personally think the Quran is suggesting that the Injil is analogous to the concept of a "Sunnah", which is a lived implementation of a written Scripture. That lived implementation can be documented accurately or inaccurately, unlike a Revealed Scripture which must be more or less exact. I don't think the Quran is saying Jesus had a book like the Torah or the Quran, and I think when it says Injil it's sometimes referring to that oral Revelation of Jesus at different stages of historicity.