That's the thing with translation-- there's no exact translation of anything, because it's impossible to say something exactly the same way. My personal pet peeve is the use of Paul's letter to the Corinthians at weddings- you know, the love is patient, love is kind, etc. etc. The kind of love he was referring to (he wrote in Greek, I believe) is not romantic love; it's charitable love. In fact, the King James version of the Bible translates it as "Charity." ("Faith, hope and charity, but the greatest of these is charity.") A lovely sentiment, yes. Not right for a wedding. Though I heard it read at a funeral once and it made me bawl.
Anyone who thinks love is patient has never heard my husband fussing at me to hurry up and get my coat on...
I think the Bible is a pretty decent attempt by men of faith to explain their world as they understood it at the time they wrote all the individual books (plus that Jesus guy said some pretty smart stuff). But I don't think it's inerrant or infallible.
And I really wish the major religions would just get off the whole sex thing. Did you hear about that major evangelist and anti-gay crusader, Ted Haggard, who has just been found out for paying for a male escort, and has been accused of using crystal meth? I have little sympathy for him in light of the hatred he has helped spread over the years, but I have enormous sympathy for a man who must have grown up feeling such a depth of self-hatred because narrow-minded bigots hid behind the Bible and told him people who felt the way he did were evil and God hated them.
Not to mention, no one is going to stop pre-marital sex, and I think getting married solely because you are desperate to sleep with someone is about the worst possible reason. Marry someone because you're pretty sure when you're old and wrinkly, you're still going to like talking to them, not because you want to get into their pants. And I think you need to get past the whole hot and bothered period to even know that. Hot and bothered burns itself out after a while and then you have to decide if you really like the person.
Of course, in a perfect world, you'll get past the whole hot and bothered period, and still enjoy getting into their pants enough to keep doing so. Can't talk ALL the time.