Islam has a high regard of their Scripture. In comparison, how high should we think of our Scripture?

This text is from a transcript of a talk by David Gooding, entitled ‘Where Did the New Testament Come From?’ (2006).

That's a very good question. At the philosophical level, Muslims are in a difficult position. They want to say—and I've had them say it to me when I was in Jordan—that the Qur'an is eternal. It existed eternally and it was dictated to Muhammad all at once, but it existed eternally long before Muhammad. Then, of course, philosophically they get themselves in a very difficult position, because now they believe in two eternal things. God and the Qur'an, which contradicts Islamic doctrine that there's only one eternal and that's God.

'What is the difference in Christian thinking?' someone might say. Would you approve of a Christian that put the Bible on a shelf and bowed down and worshipped it? You wouldn't, would you? Of course not! Like creation, the universe didn't always exist; God created it. He himself is eternal, Scripture didn't always exist. God spoke it and had his chosen people record it, but Scripture didn't always exist. We can date the New Testament, for instance, and Old Testament books like Isaiah—it is a record of what God spoke in those times.