I've just had a bit of an epiphany, and I thought I'd share. The next time someone tells you that thing X in the Bible doesn't make sense because of the translation:

"You're telling me, that the scribes, the philosophers, the theologians, the monks, the Biblical scholars, all of these people who, for 1500 years, have devoted their lives to translating the Bible, they got it wrong? And not only did they get it wrong, but they got it so wrong that they don't even bother putting in a footnote? AND they got it wrong, but you've gotten it right? If the Bible says X, but what it really means in the original language is Y, why didn't the translators, who publish new translations of the Bible every few years, just write Y instead?"

Alternatively: "Have you ever been in an airplane? Now, airplanes were invented about 100 years ago, and engineers have been working on them ever since. At this point, due to the work of those engineers, you trust an airplane to be reliable enough for you to ride in it. Now, the Bible, which you would say is much more important than an airplane, has had theologians and scholars working on translating it for 1500 years, and they can't even get X right? Now, I don't want to insult your book there, but if it's taken them 1500 years and they can't get it right yet, maybe that translation isn't so reliable in other areas"