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I like that it makes Jesus seem like a fun guy. Here's a guy who socially hangs out with a hooker while passing no judgement, and who's first documented miracl

by bgroat 5y ago

I like that it makes Jesus seem like a fun guy. Here's a guy who socially hangs out with a hooker while passing no judgement, and who's first documented miracle is turning water into wine. This SOUNDS like a guy you'd want to hang out with.

bigmattystyles 5y ago
Wait really? I haven't watched this but I seem to recall some throwing a shit fit at the Last Temptation of Christ for that very reason. I even recall the same thing at Life of Brian, which doesn't even show Jesus except for a very far shot out of focus depicting the service on the mount? I guess times have changed...
- MontagFTB 5y ago
  I’d describe The Chosen’s portrayal of Jesus as personable without being irreverent.
- chungy 5y ago
  The Last Temptation of Christ is, mildly speaking, complete garbage when it comes to theology. It actively subverts the gospels and tries to lower Jesus into the realm of natural man. The film has a few nuggets that might be interesting for those learned in religion, but it serves more as a reflection of Paul Shrader's personal struggles with faith at that point in his life. The latter point isn't all that unusual; Kevin Smith (Dogma) and Trey Parker/Matt Stone (South Park, Book of Mormon (musical)) likewise do the same. The Chosen takes a reverent interpretation. It makes no apologies for having creative license, the Bible isn't meant to be a screen play after all, but it does so in a manner consistent with the character of Jesus both in the Bible and as believers understand him to be. He is fully human and fully God. He weaves the qualities of both throughout the show with the way he handles emotions, miracles, passing down wisdom, and so forth.
paulryanrogers 5y ago
> ...and who's first documented miracle is turning water into wine. Fear not! Some translators believe it meant unfermented grape juice. So no need to doubt a church's anti-alcohol stance.
- boogies 5y ago
  Aye, growing up in a church that teaches teetotalism I heard people say that ① wine was less alcoholic back then becaue you had to ferment by leaving things out to gather yeast from the air and not from industrially produced active dry yeast powder, and ② what alcohol wine may have contained was then a necessary evil because of pathogens in water before the proliferation of treatment plants. I'm curious how true ① is, and/or if lack of distillation made wine weaker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor#Distillation_of_wine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor#Distillation_of_wine makes it sound like the process might have been uncommon knowledge still in the process of refinement).

by bgroat 5y ago

bigmattystyles 5y ago

Wait really? I haven't watched this but I seem to recall some throwing a shit fit at the Last Temptation of Christ for that very reason. I even recall the same thing at Life of Brian, which doesn't even show Jesus except for a very far shot out of focus depicting the service on the mount? I guess times have changed...

MontagFTB 5y ago
I’d describe The Chosen’s portrayal of Jesus as personable without being irreverent.
chungy 5y ago
The Last Temptation of Christ is, mildly speaking, complete garbage when it comes to theology. It actively subverts the gospels and tries to lower Jesus into the realm of natural man. The film has a few nuggets that might be interesting for those learned in religion, but it serves more as a reflection of Paul Shrader's personal struggles with faith at that point in his life. The latter point isn't all that unusual; Kevin Smith (Dogma) and Trey Parker/Matt Stone (South Park, Book of Mormon (musical)) likewise do the same. The Chosen takes a reverent interpretation. It makes no apologies for having creative license, the Bible isn't meant to be a screen play after all, but it does so in a manner consistent with the character of Jesus both in the Bible and as believers understand him to be. He is fully human and fully God. He weaves the qualities of both throughout the show with the way he handles emotions, miracles, passing down wisdom, and so forth.

paulryanrogers 5y ago

> ...and who's first documented miracle is turning water into wine. Fear not! Some translators believe it meant unfermented grape juice. So no need to doubt a church's anti-alcohol stance.

boogies 5y ago
Aye, growing up in a church that teaches teetotalism I heard people say that ① wine was less alcoholic back then becaue you had to ferment by leaving things out to gather yeast from the air and not from industrially produced active dry yeast powder, and ② what alcohol wine may have contained was then a necessary evil because of pathogens in water before the proliferation of treatment plants. I'm curious how true ① is, and/or if lack of distillation made wine weaker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor#Distillation_of_wine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor#Distillation_of_wine makes it sound like the process might have been uncommon knowledge still in the process of refinement).