When will people get as excited about reading and studying God’s Word as they do about watching a movie or TV show that takes liberties with the word of God? (The chosen, House of David)
Are they curious about the biblical parts they heard or the non-biblical parts they saw and heard? Are they just looking for something that makes them feel good or are they looking for the truth?
Why do we feel the need to add
things that aren’t in Scripture? Is God’s Word not complete enough for us?
Each episode is about 35 minutes
to an hour. Do we spend that much time reading and studying the Bible
ourselves?
Do we truly want to know what God
said—or are we more curious about what He might have said, or what might have
happened?
Do we need the Bible glitzed up and polished just to get us to seek
Him?
Maybe I’m being too critical.
Maybe I’m just a stick in the mud.
But I still think it’s something worth thinking about.
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Here's some stuff I pulled off the web about the chosen.
Jenkins’ stated goal in creating the show was to help people
know Jesus better and love Scripture more. To reach that goal, he and the other
scriptwriters took the gospel accounts and added what are, in their opinion,
plausible details about the lives of the biblical figures found there. They
added backstories to well-known characters and fleshed out other characters who
might receive only a passing mention in Scripture.
The changes are designed to give each episode a feeling of
being grounded in real life. One example of these artistic choices is that the
disciple Matthew is depicted as a young man on the Asperger’s/autism spectrum
Some comments from Reddit?
The Chosen is based, primarily, on the four accounts of the
Gospel. So that each of the many characters feel like real human beings, they
are all given lines (many of Jesus's apostles never speak a word in the Gospel)
and backstories (we know very little about any of Jesus's apostles, save for
Peter and a few details about a couple others).
This requires "adding" material to fill in the
blanks, making for scenes that progress the plot and character growth in ways
not seen in the scriptures.
There are countless creative liberties taken.
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It's based on the Bible, yes. Does everything that happens
on the show happen in the Bible? No. But could it have happened? Yes,
theoretically.
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Something can be non-Biblical without being un-Biblical. That's where much of
The Chosen falls.
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The Chosen added the story. But remember that it is not
scripture and has never claimed to be. So it isn’t violating the scripture.
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Your concerns were my concerns when I first started watching
and, to be honest, I found myself thinking "That is not in the
Bible", However, then I realized that it could very well have happened
that way.
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So, with those comments what are we seeking the Bible
glitzed up and polished just to make us feel good? Are we seeking the truth and
are we wanting others to seek the truth?
This video showed up on my YouTube feed About The Chosen. I do not watch The Chosen So I do not know if this is accurate or not but if it is accurate how can you continue to watch it?
https://youtu.be/JEFqXKcQIKY?si=6c0EFvxK7VYLwS4x
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