Welcome to Real Christianity, a weekly show designed to help Christians know their Bible,

defend their faith, and truly understand what it means to follow Jesus.

The premise is simple. The culture is getting louder. The church is getting flashier,

but few pastors are teaching on how to live a biblical life. My name is Dale Partridge,

along with my incredible wife, Veronica. Join us as we start an important conversation

about what it really means to be a Christian.

Welcome to Real Christianity. Today we are talking about Bible translations.

Yeah. Is the Bible translation that you read accurate and reliable?

This is a common question we get, and I think it's a really important question. This is actually

Veronica's show idea. She's like, man, we get this all the time. Yeah, especially like after

last podcast on head coverings, how do a lot of people reaching out, asking questions about that,

and then several people asking what versions of the Bible I read or what translation do I

think is best, because their translation, their reading, that passage out of just seemed a little

bit different. Yeah. I was like, we really, I think we really should do a podcast episode on it.

So here we are. Yeah. And so Veronica and I, we read the New King James version. We'll explain

why we also read ESV. But there's going to be a huge backstory that, to be honest, we both

never knew about a couple of years ago. So we're excited to share that journey with you. I think

this is a really important episode for anybody who's serious about scripture. Before we get started,

again, would you guys, if you haven't already, and I know thousands of you have, would you leave

a review on iTunes because it really does help the exposure of the show. Our show made it down to

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