The TV show "The Chosen" is just another example of Jesus myth being created and then warmly accepted by the masses. While I never watched the show, it was clear to me that you could not make a 44-hour movie (and counting) about Jesus' life without inventing stories that did not occur according to the gospels. And since I do not watch the show, I did not want to say anything and instead waited for Christians to complain.
Quote:When Jesus Goes Prime Time: Wrestling With ‘The Chosen’
One consistent concern within some in the Christian community is the way The Chosen “adds to Scripture” by fleshing out stories in the Gospels or just making up things that never happened.
As one blog put it, “Other than potentially breaking the Second Commandment not to make a graven image, the show also presents false teaching about Jesus Christ. The series does not claim to represent an accurate depiction of Jesus Christ and does claim to have artistic liberty. However, to claim this an authentic Jesus, as Dallas Jenkins does, is blasphemy. There is no authentic Jesus outside of the biblical Jesus.”
Among some objections to the first season are “Simon does not go through with being a spy and has to pay his debt. Jesus pays the debt by having the disciples catch a large number of fish. This causes Matthew to believe Jesus is the Messiah. The problem with this is none of it is in the text. It also implies we do not need the Bible to know what happened. This storytelling is a direct attack against Scripture alone for our understanding of God.”
Some are concerned that the portrayal of Jesus and the Gospels is so strong that it will start to replace the Bible for people as the strongest image in their head of who Jesus is.
After all, the Bible does warn about the dangers of depicting God and bowing before idols.
The idea of putting words in Jesus’s mouth is something that — as a writer — would fill me with fear and trembling. I remember when a book came out that was called “Jesus Calling,” which was a series of devotions written as if it was Jesus talking to you. It made me feel sick and concerned. I didn’t want my devotionals to speak as if they were Jesus, even though they were the words of man.
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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"
