mmmm I had pasta for dinner.
Don't get the idea that I am going to answer every single question you throw at me. Some of these things I can explain off the top of my head, but many of these things take a little bit of time to come with a proper answer.
The way things are going, you're going to come up a list of Bible contradictions and I will respond with an equally long sized list of Bible explanations. You will continue to be skeptics, and I will continue to be a believer.
I do concede to you one point:
The Bible was written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek a long time ago, and whether or not you believe in its diving inspiration, the originals have been lost due to disintegration of the paper of which it was written.
What do we have now? We have copies upon copies upon copies over the generations. How do we know its accuracy? By taking a look at the earliest copies we have and comparing it with the current copies. It turns out that it is mainly intact, with a spelling error here and there (of which they have been documented). And there are some things, like the conclusion or Mark or the beginning of John chapter 8 where its inconclusive as to whether or not those texts are "authentic."
On top of that, we have dozens of translations, whereby many well meaning men have input the "correct" interpretations of Bible passages into the book instead of letting the Bible speak for itself.
What does it all mean?
It means that not all translations are created equal. The King James Bible, for example, is a very old and popular Bible, and if something is around long enough and is popular enough, then it gains sort of an "authority" to it. However, we have so many more bible texts to refer to and we know so much more about bible greek than those scholars in England did 400 years ago.
So what it means is that it takes a very careful study of the Bible and of the context of what is written. Does this mean that we should all get degrees on Koinic Greek and Hebrew? No, but we can study the culture of the people at the time, or look in the dictionary for some of the original Greek definitions (as the Yahoo answers thing answered pretty well).
