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Let's try it again.
First of all we aren't talking about a "private act," like theft. We are talking about changing a scripture that, presumably, has been well known to a number of people for some time. Generally speaking the only way you get such a change is for someone to claim a new revelation and have people believe him.
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That's not the argument I'm making, this way we can go around in circles, and on and on. I don't want to use any source other than the scripture in question itself.
I'm making a very simple and logical argument that if God didn't promise to protect a scripture in question then there is basically 50% probability that a scripture is (or can get) corrupted, because God may or may not protect scripture - any position in this regard would be an assumption based on the scripture itself. In other words, the scripture, in such case, itself doesn't support 100% guarantee against corruption.
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"Generally speaking the only way you get such a change [in scripture] is for someone to claim a new revelation and have people believe him."
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Not necessarily, history of Bible changes proves other wise.
It is not Al-Birr (piety, righteousness, and obedience to Allāh, etc.) that you turn your faces towards east and (or) west (in prayers); but Al-Birr is (the quality of) the one who believes in Allāh, the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, the Prophets and gives his wealth, in spite of love for it, to the kinsfolk, to the orphans, and to Al-Masākīn (the poor), and to the wayfarer, and to those who ask, and to set slaves free, performs As-Salāt, and gives the Zakāt, and keep their word whenever they make a promise, and who are patient in extreme poverty and ailment (disease) and at the time of persecution, hardship, and war. Such are the people of the truth and they are Al-Muttaqūn (the pious).