Lead Tidbit
What's Wrong with this Picture?
There must have been many young boys executed as "rebellious sons". (Not so. There might never have been even one. The details of Ben Sorer U'Moreh are so exclusive and specific that it is hard to imagine a situation with all conditions present.) It's okay to take a mother bird from her nest, as long as you don't take her with the fledglings or eggs. (Wrong. One may not take the mother with or without her fledglings or eggs. The fledglings or eggs may be taken only after sending away the mother bird.) One may tie a cow's leader to the back of a wagon which is being pulled by a horse. (No, again. Although the Torah speaks of plowing with an ox and a donkey, the prohibition - on a Torah level - includes the situation in the previous sentence.) One may not wear garments of cotton and wool. (Not true. Only wool and linen makes the prohibited shaatnez.) If a man finds that his betrothed wife is not a virgin then she shall be stoned to death. (No way! If a betrothed woman committed adultery, and there are witnesses who warned her that it is a capital offense but she did it anyway, then she can be brought to court and if found guilty can be executed.) If a woman attempts to save her husband in a fight with another, and she grabs the other's private parts, her hand shall be cut off. (No. No. No. The pasuk means that we have to save someone from a "pursuer". It also might mean that one pays a monetary penalty for causing embarrassment to another person.)

The above has been a tiny sample of distorted, incorrect, inaccurate, even absurd statements that can be made from the Written Torah, especially from standard translations of the Bible.

As the title asks: What's wrong with this picture? The answer is: No Oral Torah.

That's what the parenthetical remarks were meant to supply. Every sentence not in parentheses could be made from reading the KJV of the Bible, or just translating literally. Our Torah has two inseparable parts: Written and Oral.