Does the Bible Contain Errors and Contradictions?

It is indisputable that what God inspires cannot be wrong, as He is Perfect. Since God is Perfect and therefore does not make mistakes, any apparent word of God with even one error or contradiction would be proven false--and not the Word of God. The Holy Quran is devoid of mistakes and contradictions and does not contain any information confirmed to be inaccurate.

On the other hand, because human hands have altered the original Revelation sent from God through the Prophet Jesus PBUH, many errors, contractions, absurdities, and immoralities have found their way into the Bible even though the Bible prohibits anyone from adding to it. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. (Deuteronomy 4:2). Anyone honest with themselves would identify and understand them unless they chose to follow their Church blindly, without applying the God-given gift of intellect, logic, and reason.

Many Christian scholars have acknowledged the thousands of contradictions and errors found in the Bible. Many believe there to be as many as 50,000 errors within the text. To combat the errors and contradictions found in the Bible, Biblical scholars either find a bizarre explanation to justify the verse or state that one verse is the correct one while the verse that contradicts it is false and not the Word of God, although it is found in the Bible. The masses seem unaware of this. The average Christian is ignorant that the book he takes as the Word of God contains many errors and contradictions.

How can a reasonable, sincere Christian call the Bible "the inspired Word of God" when the Bible contains errors and contradictions? If one error exists in the Bible (let alone thousands), it is enough to determine that this is not the Word of God but instead the word of man. The Word of God should be perfect, free from errors on any subject, something no man or a number of men could produce!

For the sake of time and the length of this point, I will point out only a few errors in the Bible. One can research the remainder of them online. Here are some undisputable contradictions in the Bible:

How old was Ahaziah when he ruled over Jerusalem; was he twenty-two or forty-two? According to 2 Kings 8:26: Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year

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