My wife had started watching this series. One night I decide to take a look sand it happened to be just when Jesus was all anxious preparing the Sermon On The Mount. I immediately said: “this is trash”.
Thank you for putting into words what is troubling about the portrayal of Scripture put forward in The Chosen. The problems with it as I watched it were almost subtle enough to ignore, but consistent enough as to make that impossible, despite my efforts to give the effort a pass on using some creative license to embellish and round out the narrative. And enough to cause concern about being misleading to those with no familiarity with the actual words in the biblical account.
Firstly, I would declare: "I will not serve!". And then take as many as I could with me to the consequence of that declaration.
I would attempt to distance you from God. No, I wouldn't try and catapult you away; that would be too obvious. Instead, I would lead you away inch by inch.
How? I would hide God from you. I would make you believe you are just a product of a huge number of random events over billions of years (you got lucky). I would diminish God's Law in your conscience ("love is love" remember). I would lead you to think God makes the occasional mistake. I would downplay that Holy Woman (who punishes me during exorcisms). I would converse with a wayward 16th century priest in his dreams, and tell him that the Church that Christ built needs to be "reformed" (deformed). I would sow tare seeds (weeds) amongst all of God's Son's wheat. I would infect/warp/debase EVERYTHING - scripture, morals, science, history, everything - that tends towards God. Nothing would be untouched. I would whisper in lots of pride-filled ears. Yes, that is what I would do.
Actually, I started ~6,500 years ago. I told a woman, "You certainly will not die (if you eat of the fruit)". So small a lie, but oh so effective. I won't stop until the end.
In light of the above role-play, one can therefore question: Has someone been whispering in Dallas' unknowing ears, planting little bits of tare here and there in what should be the greatest story ever?
The Protestants took many books, such as the book of James, out of the Bible for the same reason. My beloved Catholic Church has such serious problems that I no longer attend mass, but I could never call myself anything but Catholic. Thank you for this well though out article.
Don't ever let the Judases in the Church keep you from Jesus. No matter how bad things get, stay close to the sacraments. Go back to Mass and focus everything on Christ in the Eucharist and ignore the Judases around you.
There is a decent Catholic commentary on the Formed app, as well as Dallas' The Chosen Bible Roundtables on the Chosen App that are worth watching. I will continue to watch this as a creative TV show, as it is intended and has been explained multiple times.
Mar 11, 2023·edited Mar 11, 2023Liked by Habitual Linestepper
Being a "creative tv show" does not excuse someone of the appropriate boundaries of what is and is not acceptable to portray, unless their goal is something entirely different than that of truth of Christ
You are a caricature of the Pharisees. So distracted by your orthodoxy, so confident in the infallibility of your beliefs, that you miss the entire point.
I don’t think Jesus criticized the Jewish belief of the Pharisees. He criticized their practice of it. What they wrongfully added and took away. And their hypocrisy, for they did not love God but themselves.
Exactly. And their twisting of Jewish law - which told them to give freely to God, but also to care for their parents. Jesus condemned them for donating their homes to the synagogue, when they had parents living on the streets.
Ridiculous. You should be happy that The Chosen has people looking to Jesus instead of some pedo priest. We have no time for this. There is a war against evil to win.
The problem is that they are looking at a false Christ.
It's amazing that people don't realize that pointing people to a Christ who is not divine and not the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity, is a bad thing.
My wife had started watching this series. One night I decide to take a look sand it happened to be just when Jesus was all anxious preparing the Sermon On The Mount. I immediately said: “this is trash”.
Thank you for putting into words what is troubling about the portrayal of Scripture put forward in The Chosen. The problems with it as I watched it were almost subtle enough to ignore, but consistent enough as to make that impossible, despite my efforts to give the effort a pass on using some creative license to embellish and round out the narrative. And enough to cause concern about being misleading to those with no familiarity with the actual words in the biblical account.
What would I do if I were truly diabolic?
Firstly, I would declare: "I will not serve!". And then take as many as I could with me to the consequence of that declaration.
I would attempt to distance you from God. No, I wouldn't try and catapult you away; that would be too obvious. Instead, I would lead you away inch by inch.
How? I would hide God from you. I would make you believe you are just a product of a huge number of random events over billions of years (you got lucky). I would diminish God's Law in your conscience ("love is love" remember). I would lead you to think God makes the occasional mistake. I would downplay that Holy Woman (who punishes me during exorcisms). I would converse with a wayward 16th century priest in his dreams, and tell him that the Church that Christ built needs to be "reformed" (deformed). I would sow tare seeds (weeds) amongst all of God's Son's wheat. I would infect/warp/debase EVERYTHING - scripture, morals, science, history, everything - that tends towards God. Nothing would be untouched. I would whisper in lots of pride-filled ears. Yes, that is what I would do.
Actually, I started ~6,500 years ago. I told a woman, "You certainly will not die (if you eat of the fruit)". So small a lie, but oh so effective. I won't stop until the end.
In light of the above role-play, one can therefore question: Has someone been whispering in Dallas' unknowing ears, planting little bits of tare here and there in what should be the greatest story ever?
The Protestants took many books, such as the book of James, out of the Bible for the same reason. My beloved Catholic Church has such serious problems that I no longer attend mass, but I could never call myself anything but Catholic. Thank you for this well though out article.
Don't ever let the Judases in the Church keep you from Jesus. No matter how bad things get, stay close to the sacraments. Go back to Mass and focus everything on Christ in the Eucharist and ignore the Judases around you.
This is next level cringe. 😬 I'll pray for you 📿✝️🙏🏽
Feel free to point out any errors in the post.
There is a decent Catholic commentary on the Formed app, as well as Dallas' The Chosen Bible Roundtables on the Chosen App that are worth watching. I will continue to watch this as a creative TV show, as it is intended and has been explained multiple times.
Being a "creative tv show" does not excuse someone of the appropriate boundaries of what is and is not acceptable to portray, unless their goal is something entirely different than that of truth of Christ
You are a caricature of the Pharisees. So distracted by your orthodoxy, so confident in the infallibility of your beliefs, that you miss the entire point.
I don’t think Jesus criticized the Jewish belief of the Pharisees. He criticized their practice of it. What they wrongfully added and took away. And their hypocrisy, for they did not love God but themselves.
Exactly. And their twisting of Jewish law - which told them to give freely to God, but also to care for their parents. Jesus condemned them for donating their homes to the synagogue, when they had parents living on the streets.
What's the point he's missing?
Ridiculous. You should be happy that The Chosen has people looking to Jesus instead of some pedo priest. We have no time for this. There is a war against evil to win.
The problem is that they are looking at a false Christ.
It's amazing that people don't realize that pointing people to a Christ who is not divine and not the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity, is a bad thing.
What about scripture? Can they look to that?