In New Interview, ‘The Chosen’ Director Dallas Jenkins Insists He Loves The Same Jesus as His Mormon ‘Brothers’
‘The Chosen’ Director Dallas Jenkins again articulated in a new interview with Allen Parr that he loves the same Jesus that his Mormon friends do, demonstrating again and again why he has a false understanding of Jesus and the gospel.
We’ve written about Jenkins and his abject biblical ignorance in the past with our posts:
Dallas Jenkins Says Mormons are Saved: ‘I’m Going to Die on That Hill,’
Dallas Jenkins Doubles Down on Controversial Mormon Comments, Straight-up Lies
Dallas Jenkins Affirms Mormons are Christians in ‘Definitive, Final’ Video ‘
Addressing the controversy that has dogged him for years, Jenkins tells Parr:
“The LDS issue is just something that got some controversy because several years ago on a YouTube interview I made the comment that I was referring to a few of my LDS friends and I said I’m not speaking for the LDS church, I’m not talking about their formal doctrine or anything like that, I’m talking about some of these LDS friends that I have do love the same Jesus that I do. Now we may have some disagreements about some aspects of it, but some of these brothers that I know, that I have had deep, intense, dozens of hours of conversations with, might not actually sign on to or might have a different viewpoint than what the official church doctrine is. Or the official church doctrine, much like the Evangelical world, has different sects and different denominations within it. And so I think it’s dangerous to speak for any one particular group.”
This is all completely false, however. If you love the same Jesus that Mormons do, you’re going to hell. If you believe there is no difference between Jesus of the Bible and the Jesus of Joseph Smith’s demonic imagination, you’re spiritually blinded and there only awaits a fiery expectation of judgment. If you repudiate the Jesus of Mormonism, then you’re not a Mormon, and any true convert would run screaming from that cauldron of false teaching and heresy.
For a brief overview of the Mormon views on Jesus and other things, they believe that Jesus was once a regular sinful man who became exalted and turned into a God after doing many good deeds. ‘God the Father’ himself was also once a man on another planet, but because he was such a good Mormon, he was granted the right to become a God over this earth.
They believe that they too can become capital ‘G’ Gods of their own planet one day, and in fact, hold that there are millions of Gods. For them, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all and individual separate Gods, and they all have human bodies of flesh- they are not Spirits.
Mormons categorically deny the idea of salvation by grace alone and believe Jesus and Lucifer are ‘spirit brothers.’ They believe the scriptures we have are all corrupted and that’s why they have the new revelation of Joseph Smith.
These words by Jenkins echo previous declarations he’s made that he and his Mormon friends love the same Jesus and want him to be known:
“But I’m happy to say, “Yeah, we disagree on some things, but I’m going to die on the hill of, we love the same Jesus, and we want the same Jesus known to the world.”
He has made similar comments on the Mormon Show “Saints Unscripted”
One of the most interesting things about this whole project has been my relationship with different denominational or faith traditions that I didn’t have before. I’ve learned so much more about the LDS community than I thought I knew.
…And what’s funny about the LDS folks as you guys seem to be, even though you’re the most controversial, you seem to be the least confrontational. It’s just like, ‘hey, we all love Jesus. I just want to let you know, we love the show’. And when people start going, ‘Hey, you’re a Mormon, you’re going to hell’. You just like, ‘hey, whatever.” It’s like it just kind of seems to roll off your back. Maybe it’s because you’re used to being on the outside sometimes.
…So even if I had significant disagreements with the LDS community, which I’ve learned, I have fewer than I thought I did. But even with that, I was okay, I was comfortable with that, because as long as they’re treating the show properly, that’s all that matters. So I can honestly say it’s been one of the top three most fascinating and beautiful things about this project has been my growing brother and sisterhood with people of the LDS community that I never would have known otherwise.
I’m learning so much about your faith tradition, and realizing, gosh, for all the stuff that maybe we don’t see eye to eye on, that all happened, that’s all based on stuff that happened after Jesus was here.
The stories of Jesus, we do agree on and we love the same Jesus. That’s not something that you often hear. Sometimes it’s like, ‘oh, they believe in a different Jesus that we do.’
(Host: “that’s a controversial statement.”)
Yeah. No, it’s the same. I mean, I’ll sink or swim on that statement, and it’s controversial, and I don’t mind getting criticized at all for the show, and I don’t mind being called a blasphemer. I don’t like it when my (LDS) friends are.
And I made it very clear that if I go down, I’m going down swinging, protecting my friends, and my brothers and sisters. And so I don’t deny we have a lot of theological differences, but we love the same Jesus.”
Jenkins is deceived, and every time he tells people that Mormons and Christians love the same Jesus, he is deceiving others.
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Mormonism is a cult and shares very little doctrine with true Christianity! Different Jesus, different Bible, totally different on salvation…… Jenkins should only be keeping fellowship with these people in order to get them saved… that is if he himself is saved. Who knows after reading his comments!??? I will not be watching The Chosen. I will stick with reading my Bible!