THE CHOSEN AND THE BIBLE—20 Questions to Ask Yourself

Serious Considerations That Can't Be Ignored

A Spiritual Research Network Publication

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Editor’s Note

Today, The Chosen TV series has been viewed by millions of people around the world. Its devoted fans have also donated millions of dollars to the series’ record-breaking crowdfunding campaign. Any biblical criticism of The Chosen is usually countered by Dallas Jenkins and Chosen fans with—“Hey, it’s just a TV show!” However, Jenkins seems to already follow William Paul Young’s Shack universalism path as he uses his highly visible Chosen platform to introduce mystical New Age Catholic universalists like Richard Rohr and Brother Lawrence to his ever-growing fan base. The lesson Christians should have learned from The Shack has been lost amidst all The Chosen fanfare. The lesson is that fictional false Christs can be used by our Spiritual Adversary to cleverly condition and deceive people. In short, what seems to be “just a novel” or “just a TV show” can turn out to be something else entirely."

This booklet presents 20 pertinent questions we should ask ourselves about The Chosen and its relation to the Bible. Along with the following 20 questions, the booklet contains author comments, Scripture verses, and supporting document citations that bolster the sound biblical responses to each question.

20 Questions to Ask Yourself

1) Not What It Seems? (What if The Chosen is not what it seems?)

2) Prayed About The Chosen? (Have you ever stopped to pray about The Chosen?)

3) Slips, Snares, Tares, and Leaven? (Have you noticed that what the Bible describes as strange slips, snares, tares, and leaven have been subtly, and not so subtly, inserted into The Chosen’s multi-season episodes?)

4) No Love of the Truth? (Why would The Chosen directly contradict what the Bible so clearly shows to be true?)

5) Get Used to Different? (Are we really supposed to “get used to different?”)

6) What Does Your Heart Tell You? (Why does the “Jesus” of The Chosen teach viewers to listen to their heart when the Bible tells us just the opposite?)

7) “Authentic Jesus?” (Is The Chosen’s “Jesus” really the “authentic Jesus” that Dallas Jenkins says he is?)

8) Changing God’s Word? (Does God give permission to anyone for any reason—much less for the purpose of entertainment—to add, subtract, change, contradict, and corrupt His Word?)

9) No Bible? (Did you know that Dallas Jenkins says to watch The Chosen as though the Bible didn’t exist?)

10) Creative License or Evil Imagination? (Does creative license ever take precedence over God’s Word?)

11) Famine for Hearing the Word of God? (Is The Chosen’s lack of Bible content reflective of the Bible’s warning of the time when there will be a “famine” for hearing the Word of God and that people will not endure sound doctrine as they follow false teachers?)

12) Cunningly Devised Fables? (Are you aware the Bible warns us not to follow cunningly devised fables, (e.g., fictional backstories), that raise questions rather than produce godly edifying?)

13) Edification or Entertainment? (When it comes to anything related to the Bible, are you more interested in being entertained or edified?)

14) Plausible or Evil Surmisings? (Are you aware that many of the events and conversations The Chosen presents as being “plausible” (a term Dallas Jenkins frequently uses when describing the made-up stories in The Chosen.) are not only implausible but what the Bible describes as “evil surmisings?”)

15) Pleasing God or Pleasing Men? (Do you realize that successful crowdfunding is totally dependent on successful crowd pleasing—pleasing men rather than God?)

16) Fear of God? (Do you think that putting one’s own thoughts and words in the mouth of Jesus and the disciples reflects anything resembling the fear of God?)

17) Ever Viewing But Never Learning? (Are you ever viewing The Chosen but never coming to a knowledge of the truth?)

18) Narrow or Broad Way? (Does The Chosen’s worldwide popularity and acclaim, its ever-increasing record-breaking views, and its almost complete absence of Scripture, sound like it’s heading along the narrow way of truth or down the broad way of deception and destruction?)

19) Heard From “Who”? (Should everyone just take Dallas Jenkins’ word that God spoke to him about The Chosen and told him how successful the series would be?)

20) Godly Global Phenomenon or Ungodly Global Deception? (Is The Chosen series a godly global phenomenon, or could it be part of the end-time global deception prophesied in the Bible?)

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