The Bible is Truth?

Sunday seems like the perfect day to discuss the problem(s) with believing that every word in the Bible is true:

...Notably, the Bible contains all sorts of inconsistencies. Folks who've tried to add up the lifespans to date the age of the earth come up with different answers, and there's other piddling things like this. But beyond the obscure stuff, right up-front-and-center there in Genesis you get two rather different accounts of the origin of humanity. The Gospels, too, are telling different stories of the life of Christ. The business about what to do with your brother's wife in case your brother dies flips around at some point.

Moreover, the Bible is a translation -- or rather, several different translations -- of texts coming to us in different languages, so it's not particularly clear what is supposed to be literally true in the Bibles folks read...

If you want a more comprehensive list of obvious contradictions in the Bible, I refer you to the Contradictions page at Skeptics' Annotated Bible. However, that page is a bit of overkill, as you only need one direct contradiction within the Bible to prove that belief in the entire Bible is impossible, via reductio ad absurdum.

The truly sad thing is, the people who truly believe the Bible and truly believe that Jesus has saved them will never perform this kind of critical analysis. (And often, as Matthew points out in the linked article, most of them never really read the Bible.)