RE: Noteworthy News
June 10, 2023 at 7:52 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2023 at 7:53 am by Fake Messiah.)
Here is an interesting title for an article
If you noticed they are claiming that the show is historical, along with the creator, but they are obviously making up stories for the episodes. So it seems that Christians have a very low bar of what is historical about Jesus. If someone invents stories about Jesus and they seem "good", they become historical.
Maybe you could say that it is historical because it is set in the past, like the movie Gladiator, but Jesus is not only supposed to be a real person but his life and teachings are also supposed to be very important (the creator even calls it "historically significant story"), so if someone is changing and adding stuff, he is distorting this "important" man's holy mission.
Quote:The CW to Air The Chosen, Historical Drama About Life and Teachings of Jesus
Hailing from creator, director and producer Dallas Jenkins and set against the backdrop of Jewish oppression in first-century Israel, the seven-season event series — which to date has been available through DVD, Angel Studios’ VidAngel subscription service and currently Peacock and Netflix — promises “an authentic and intimate look at Jesus’ revolutionary life and teachings.”
“The Chosen is based on the biggest IP of all time and is truly a one-of-a-kind series that tells this historically significant story in a captivating, dramatic and premium way,”
https://tvline.com/news/the-cw-series-or...234997872/
If you noticed they are claiming that the show is historical, along with the creator, but they are obviously making up stories for the episodes. So it seems that Christians have a very low bar of what is historical about Jesus. If someone invents stories about Jesus and they seem "good", they become historical.
Maybe you could say that it is historical because it is set in the past, like the movie Gladiator, but Jesus is not only supposed to be a real person but his life and teachings are also supposed to be very important (the creator even calls it "historically significant story"), so if someone is changing and adding stuff, he is distorting this "important" man's holy mission.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
