Choose This Day
I’m one of the few people who has never watched The Chosen. Not once. Some may assert that, therefore, I am disallowed from criticizing this wildly popular series. To that, I will reply that scripture and logic are the basis of my condemnation of The Chosen as unfit for consumption by believers and seekers alike.
Let’s begin with the claim of the creators of the show and its many defenders.
It makes Jesus so appealing and approachable that it’s causing millions of people to seek Him, some for the first time.
Apparently, the Bible just isn’t enough. We must be spoon-fed from the silver screen but the trouble with that is the devoted audience of The Chosen is being fed a version of Jesus that is wholly man-made. The show’s creators admit that in the first 4 episodes, NONE of it was drawn from the Bible. They claim it’s based on the Bible but the dialogue, characters, backstories and details are all fiction. Once in a while, they quote scripture, but so does Satan.
Presenting the story of Jesus as fiction is a serious mistake. If God’s word is the perfect standard, what could be the motivation for adding so much filler? I mean apart from money and fame. What’s a hallmark of the last days? Deception, not just the disgusting depravity that we see all around us, but wolves inside the church, feeding off of it and drawing people after themselves. Do they look like wolves? Or do they masquerade as angels of light? These are not tough questions.
The American church is being trained to fall head over heels in love with the Anti-Christ. If we look at the known qualities of that person and then check out the actor who portrays Jesus in the show, there are distinct similarities.
- All that dwell on the earth will worship him
- He is outstanding (Who is like unto the beast?)
- He is a successful warrior
- He speaks great things
- He appears to bring peace
Please understand, I’m talking about Jonathan Roumie, the winsome darling of the media. I watched his interview on The View, not typically a bastion of Christian thought, and I almost fell for him! Did you know that the first three seasons of the show captured 600,000,000 views? Six. Hundred. Million.
Now Jonathan has a prayer app where he’ll lead you into praying the Rosary. I’ve read on some comment threads that people now envision his face when they pray. He’s had to make public disclaimers “I’m not the real Jesus” with a charming self-deprecating humbleness that drives his fans to even more delight.
If you’ll fall for Jonathan Roumie in all his skull and bones, grave sucking, Rosary chanting, Pope loving, Knights Templar nonsense, you’ll fall for anything.
Yet he’s just the face of the show. It gets worse. The producer of The Chosen, Dallas Jenkins, describes himself as an evangelical Christian. Ok, let’s take him at his word. Here’s a quote: “I said that many LDS folks and I love the same Jesus. I still believe that. It’s gotten me in a lot of trouble but I still believe that.”
The ‘same Jesus’. Is there more than one?
Is your Jesus a spirit that was produced in heaven? A spirit brother of Lucifer, and his earthly birth was not by a virgin but came about through sexual intercourse with Mary by his father god who resides on a planet near a star called Kolob? Did your Jesus work toward becoming god by taking Mary, her sister Martha and Mary Magdalene as wives, and producing children necessary for him to become a god? And that’s how he became the god of this world, taking his place among the multitude of gods ruling over numerous other worlds?
T.A. McMahon
What do you mean “No”? Because that’s the Jesus that the executive producer, Derral Eves believes in, as do most of the other producers of the series, Ricky Ray Butler, and Jeffrey and Neil Harmon of VidAngel, which is Angel Studios. What communion has light with darkness?
Have you not read that this show is all about ‘helping people get to know Jesus better and to recognize similarities with the “Jesus of different faiths” ‘? That’s why the Mormon backers have no problem with pushing multiple versions of Jesus. Any Jesus will do.
The Bible is the complete, infallible word of God, given to mankind so that we can know God and be saved. We know that faith comes by hearing the word of God.
Show producer Dallas Jenkins stated in an interview, “Our intentions are different from the Bible’s intentions”. The Bible’s intentions are to uplift Christ, so what are his? He states that the show will be, “what the audience wants or needs to see”. This show subtly swaps Scripture for mystical Catholic doctrine and cheap humor. The show’s writer, Tyler Thompson claims the Bible is “good literature” but not infallible.
During a discussion with the Mormon partners, they joke about the book of Revelation and the instruction to not add to the Bible. Dallas Jenkins told them it’s okay to ignore what John said and add to the stories in the Bible (for the series) and later stated with a grin -and please do not miss this – “the people who only want to read the bible won’t be watching this series.“
Randall LaCelle
It’s clear to me that the creators of this show haven’t believed the Bible or they would cease joking about Revelation.
I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. ~ Revelation 22:18-19
So at the very least, Dallas Jenkins may need to reevaluate the faith delineated in the Bible and put his trust in the true Jesus—or risk going through the Tribulation and then quite possibly heading to hell. Either way, he’s hardly the guy you should be trusting to get you closer to Jesus.
In the word of God we are instructed to be about “Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought, to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.” ~ 2nd Corinthians 10:5-6
Not only has the show and the cast become a ‘high thing’, but they’ve also accomplished that by mocking the truth. In the show, when Jesus meets Nicodemus he asks him “what does your heart tell you?” and later says “Soon it’ll all be about the heart.” The word says the heart is deceptively wicked, so maybe the writer of the script has simply seen too many Disney movies. When Nicodemus tries to worship Him, Jesus stops him by saying he doesn’t need to do that. John the Baptist is arrogant and rude at one point saying “You appear to not be ready to get into the specifics on a lot of things.” At another point, John is bragging about how he’s planning on marching into Herod’s palace to tell him off adding “My followers will love it.” Does anyone remember that part in the Bible where Peter called John the Baptist ‘Creepy John’? Yet when John proclaimed “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world” Peter then interjects after “Behold” . . . “I am eating a bug.” Just going for the laughs, I presume? I think what offends me the most is the portrayal of Jesus as someone who had to rehearse his ‘speeches’ and have his notes corrected by his disciples. Jesus is portrayed as needing fashion tips from the women who were with him and most painful of all retorting to his mother when she said she was proud of him “Maybe wait to say that until after I’m done, in case I mess up in front of such a big crowd.”
This pathetic twisted mess is NOT the gospel. It’s NOT Jesus.
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another, but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. ~Galatians 1:6-9
“If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine but the Father’s which sent me.” John 14: 23-24
There’s a great deal of evidence that the writers, directors and producers of The Chosen care nothing for an accurate depiction of scripture. They care about the show. Period. The story of Jesus is merely a vehicle for their ambition, pride and greed. This pretend Jesus serves them so well and they are dishing him up to a worldwide audience.
Do you know who else is a pretend Jesus? That’s right, the Anti-Christ. The way is being paved for his horrifying arrival and acceptance of it is being set in place by men who claim they are followers of Christ.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. ~2nd Corinthians 6:17
