Dallas Jenkins Defends The Chosen’s Inaccuracies in Allie Stuckey Interview
(Evangelical Dark Web) Dallas Jenkins appears to have done a media tour at BlazeTV and his interview with Allie Stuckey is one of the rare instances where I believe she was out of her depths on the subject at hand. Having never seen The Chosen, Allie Stuckey, the host of Relatable, interviewed Dallas Jenkins, who showcased his excuse for the liberal creative license he takes with the show that is centered around Jesus and his followers.
Dallas Jenkins explains that where the Bible is not clear, they take creative license based on what is biblically plausible. Evangelical Dark Web’s critique of The Chosen has largely been that the creative license they take is largely contradicted in Scripture or history or is too banal for an entertainment medium. The Chosen gets figures fundamentally wrong.
Stuckey points to Matthew who they acknowledge as depicted as on the spectrum. Is Math Autist Matthew biblically plausible? To Jenkins the answer is yes, because Matthew would have had to have been good with math in order to be a tax collector. And making him a tax collector would have made him an outcast. So two stereotypes about autistic people are used to argue the plausibility of Matthew being autistic. This is the logic of a Dave Chappelle skit. But Matthew wasn’t the loner depicted in The Chosen. He had tax collector friends who came to his spontaneous party when Jesus called him. It’s also worth noting that we do not know for certain what causes autism. The case for biblical plausibility is weak.
Dallas Jenkins insists that they do not take creative…to continue reading click here.
Editor’s Note. This article was written by Ray Fava and published at the Evangelical Dark Web- an excellent site that people should keep in their bookmarks.
Also, this is what you get when you violate the Second Commandment.
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It’s also worth noting that in the middle of that December 19th episode of Relatable, Allie Beth Stuckey proclaims “Mormon theology is not influencing The Chosen. It is Scripture.” Meanwhile, ministries that minister to Mormons are warning Christians that former Mormons turned Christians are turning back to Mormonism because of the show and they are being largely ignored by the Christian community.
Below is a link I’ve provided to the YouTube video that breaks down what happened on that interview, along with observations on Allie Beth Stuckey’s actions before and after the interview.
https://youtu.be/Wd6I3TfxAVo