Could you point out some errors in the Bible? I've heard lots of people reference these "errors" - but never seen one that I couldn't handle. And yes - I have gone to the internet and responded to rationalwiki articles. If you could find an error with the Bible I've never heard before, I'd be interested to hear it. Now, I should mention that it will not change my beliefs even if I can't explain it, but I may be able to help calm your fears of the Bible being untrue.
The Bible says that ALL of it is true. From Genesis's Creation account to the prophecies to come in revelation must be true for God to be who He says He is.
The Papyrus Ipuwer, located in St. Petersburg, contains an Egyptian account which is identical to the Exodus account except for a few small details and one major detail. It describes every event given in Exodus from the Egyptian view (accounting for ALL of the small details) in the same order, including a pursuit of escaping slaves which leads into the depths of the Red Sea that ends with the death of Pharaoh Mernepta when the parted waters crash down upon him and his troops. The major detail, the only significant variation (if you don't count the revelation that the pharaoh of the Exodus was Mernepta) in the two accounts, describes the tenth plague as an earthquake which shook the entire Earth. This has caused historians to dismiss the Papyrus Ipuwer as the Egyptian account of the Exodus.
The Upanishads and the Vedas each contain an account of the the end of the world through a progression of plagues, identical in nature and sequence to those described in the Papyrus Ipuwer and up until the final plague, the account in Exodus. The final plague in the Hindu texts is in each case an earthquake to end all earthquakes.
End of the world accounts in the Popol Vuh, some Buddhist texts in Tibet and one of the oldest Norse stories of Jörmungandr and Ragnarok all describe an identical progression of plagues culminating in a massive earthquake.
At the time of the Exodus the Earth underwent a global cataclysm that was recorded by many ancient societies. No other explanation can reasonably account for the precise correlation between texts from such diverse sources. I would love to hear of another reasonable explanation that doesn't expect me to believe it is all a coincidence. Once or even twice could conceivably be considered coincidental, but there is just too much correlation for that. So why does the Hebrew account of these events differ from the others? The Hebrew description of the tenth plague is a single thirteen letter word which means roughly "All of the best and brightest". When translated into Greek it becomes roughly "those who inherit the bounty of the Earth". When THAT is translated into Latin you get "First born". This thirteen letter word has as its very center letter an "o" type letter which connects to the letters to either side at either the top or bottom. I don't remember which one, only that there are two "o" letters, one that loops up from the bottom and one that loops down from the top. When that word is spelled with that center letter looped one way it corresponds to the current Exodus text. Loop that center letter the other way and you get another meaning entirely. The other way, spelled identically to the current word except for the way that center letter is looped, means "truly epic earthquake".
There, then, is a mistake in the bible. Change one single letter and the Hebrew account of the cataclysm matches every other account of the cataclysm. This is the simplest explanation for the discrepancy.
