Is the Eastern Orthodox Church Really the Church Founded by Jesus and his Apostles? | Pastor Samuel Farag | Ep. 279
Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly
Haley Williams
4.5 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Eastern Orthodoxy considers itself the true church founded by Jesus Chris and his apostles in 33 A.D.. It holds that it has maintained the unbroken, apostolic faith for over 2,000 years, tracing its roots to the early Church mentioned in the New Testament. But is this true? And what differences does Eastern Orthodoxy teach compared to protestant Christianity?
Is our faith really "brand new" and only a Western, "post-reformation" interpretation of scripture?
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello and welcome back to Kindled podcast. Today I have a conversation for you with Pastor Samuel Farag, who was saved out of the |
| 0:24.5 | Eastern Orthodox Church to Christianity. This is a fascinating conversation, and I learned so much from him. |
| 0:31.3 | I also have another episode on this topic that I will be airing next week with another person who is an expert on |
| 0:40.3 | Eastern Orthodoxy. So there's going to be a couple episodes on this, and I'm diving deep into it |
| 0:44.5 | because there's a trend happening right now of Christians, moving out of Protestant or |
| 0:51.6 | non-denominational kind of evangelical churches to more traditional |
| 0:57.3 | churches like the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, meaning the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 1:03.2 | So that's something that we've been talking about on Instagram. |
| 1:06.5 | It's something that a lot of you are dealing with in your real life. |
| 1:09.6 | You have friends, you have family, |
| 1:11.5 | loved ones who are converting, who are learning, considering converting. I've talked with people |
| 1:16.8 | whose husbands are exploring and they are trying to learn what are these beliefs. Is this |
| 1:22.7 | actually biblically true? Are these interpretations right? And so as you are searching, I hope that these |
| 1:30.6 | conversations can be a springboard for you to kind of get a mile wide and an inch deep, |
| 1:37.2 | hopefully maybe a little more than an inch deep on these teachings and these religions, |
| 1:42.1 | so that you can really grasp and understand what they are. |
| 1:45.6 | So if that's you and if you are seeking to learn more and want to hear a pastor's take on |
| 1:51.5 | all of this, someone who actually lived the first 32 years of his life in the Eastern Orthodox |
| 1:57.7 | Church, you will want to listen in to this. |
| 2:05.8 | Besides that, I want to remind you to leave a rating and review on the show. |
| 2:09.8 | If you have not done so, you can actually just scroll down on this episode, |
| 2:13.1 | and you should see a place to leave a star rating and some words. |
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