.- On Monday, the official Facebook page of the successful viral series «The Chosen«addressed a major issue related to the project, clarifying that it is not produced by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“We are not produced by Mormons,” the post reads, in part. The Facebook post drew more than 2,400 comments, 10 times the number of comments a post earlier in the day received.
It was a topic that has circulated on blogs and social networks in recent months. The Chosen, is produced by Angel Studios, is a crowdfunded television series about the life of Jesus and his disciples. The second season premiered last year.
The humorous Facebook post included a screenshot of a critical comment that had multiple grammatical errors. That comment touched on the Mormon theme and urged people to be “very careful” if they were watching the series.
“We are not anti-Christian, we are not produced by Mormons,” wrote the official Facebook page of The Chosen. But let’s go out on a limb and guess that there was a typo; which would not be surprising, since most of our hate comments are not written by English learners. That being said, go ahead and be very careful with us, that advice is sound.”
Director Dallas Jenkins, who is an evangelical, also addressed the issue in March during an interview with Ruslan KD, a YouTube creator and hip-hop artist.
Scripture-Based Series
Jenkins said that The Chosen it does not “get funding from Angel Studios” and it does not “get funding from any organization, let alone any religious organization.” Angel Studios has LDS members on the inside, but the studio is a “distribution partner” and they “don’t really fund it.”
“I’m evangelical,” Jenkins said. I consider myself a conservative evangelical. I believe in the Bible, the Holy Word of God. It is the infallible word of the Scriptures.”
Jenkins emphasized that he is responsible for the content of The Chosen . “Those who are involved in this show who are LDS or Catholic or any other religious tradition would be the first to tell you that they have absolutely nothing to do with the content itself,” he said.
“…I’m doing a Jesus show,” Jenkins said. “I am pointing people to Jesus. And I will let the Holy Spirit and the discipleship of the local church do the work of nuance all those kinds of disagreements on a large or even small scale.”
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