The more liberal, less literal churches (Episcopal, Methodist) believe that the Bible was inspired by God but written by man, limited in places by cultural influences and prejudices. It would apply to say that these churches follow the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law. Just so you don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, they also believe that God gave us an intellectual brain precisely so we COULD and SHOULD spend our lives trying to determine, each one of us, what the spirit of the law is. Rather than have it all spelled out and fed to us as established doctrine. Well, there's a balance between the two. ++++

Errors in scientific or historical facts, sure. Errors in religious truth, no. There is a fundamental difference between truth and fact. It is true that God exists but I cannot prove it. It is a fact that President Bush said he invaded Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction but it is not true. Catholics believe that the Bible teaches truth about God but it is not historically factual at all times. The Bible's primary purpose is to teach us the truth about God and His (or Her) love for us and how we should love each other, not to teach facts about history or science. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) Here is a statements on the Bible by Evangelical and Catholic Christians together, "Your Word is Truth" (2002) http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=2058 For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 105 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect1chpt2.shtml With love in Christ.

In their original manuscripts there were no errors in the letters and books that make up both the Old and New Testaments in the Original Hebrew and Greek. Saddly none of these originals are known to exist. Because we have copies of copies of copies and they have been translated from the original languages there have been words added,deleted or changed by those doing the translating. In some cases there was no word in Latin that was translateable especially from the Greek; the transcriber mearly joined several words to make a word that was somewhat close. A perfect example of this is the word "fornication". When you break the word down into its parts you find it has nothing to do with premarital sex but with the buying and selling of slaves used in the temples of fertility as temple prostitutes. Then when the Bibles were translated from Latin into English and other languages there were further mistakes made. The Bible that is supposed to be the closest to the original is the King James Version of the 1611 Cambridge edition. So yes there are many errors in the Bibles used today but you will probably never see them corrected because they are accepted as is.

What does it say that you want to be "errors"? At any rate, the Bible is about God and God's relationship with us, and in that sense, it is a history of the people of God. It is not a natural history or a book on paleontology. As such, it is as pointless to say that it is in error on matters of geology and paleontology as it would be to say "Hamlet is in error on the matter of astronomy and astrology." Also, the Bible is a book about how to get to heaven, not about how to get to the Moon, or to New York from Paris. Also, certain miracles have to be absolutely historical or the entire book is blasphemous: the parting of the Red Sea, the giving of the Law at Sinai, the incarnation, the resurrection, and the ascension. This is because both Judaism and Christianity are based on a contract (a covenant) made by God and these events are where and how He makes those covenant. If God did not make those covenants, then the contracts are frauds, and so are the religions on which they are based.