{"id":34462,"date":"2022-01-23T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=34462"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:11:57","slug":"new-booklet-the-chosen-series-10-critical-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/new-booklet-the-chosen-series-10-critical-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW BOOKLET: THE CHOSEN Series\u201410 Critical Concerns<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE CHOSEN Series\u201410 Critical Concerns<\/em> is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet<\/a>. The booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our Booklets are designed to give away to others or for your own personal use. Below is the content of this new booklet. To order copies of THE CHOSEN Series\u201410 Critical Concerns<\/em><\/strong> click here.<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> While this booklet discusses the unbiblical teachings of the Mormon church, the Catholic Church, and the New Age, we care deeply for Mormons, Catholics, and those involved in the New Age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE CHOSEN Series\u201410 Critical Concerns<\/em>
A Lighthouse Trails Publication <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incredibly popular series The Chosen<\/em> is being described as a \u201cglobal phenomenon\u201d and growing \u201cmovement\u201d that is creating the groundwork for world \u201crevival.\u201d However, there are some critical concerns about this series and where it is heading. The following are ten of these concerns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) The Chosen<\/em> and Its Mormon Influencers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Chosen<\/em> series was initiated and inspired from a partnership between Dallas Jenkins, an evangelical filmmaker, and three Mormon businessmen, Jeffrey and Neal Harmon and Derral Eves after the three men viewed a film written and directed by Jenkins called The Shepherd.<\/em> The Mormon influence on The Chosen<\/em> is considerable: the executive producer is Mormon, the distributor is Mormon, certain episodes were shot on a special Mormon set in Utah, and the crowdfunding and media expertise is provided by Mormons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, Dallas Jenkins had reached a self-described career low as a filmmaker when he was given an opportunity to partner with the successful Mormon businessmen who believed they could create a \u201cglobal phenomenon\u201d1 with The Chosen<\/em>. With the Mormon church\u2019s long-standing hope and efforts to be viewed by the evangelical church as just another denomination and Jenkin\u2019s unsatisfied desire to be a successful Christian filmmaker, it seemed like the perfect match to help each other out. Thus, the birth of The Chosen.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who defend The Chosen <\/em>may say that so far (through Season 2), no Mormon doctrine has been introduced into the series, and therefore, it\u2019s not a problem that Mormons and evangelicals are working together. If this were a secular film, perhaps that would be a valid argument. But in a film series that is supposed to be depicting the life and ministry of Jesus Christ and His disciples and which claims to complement the Bible\u2019s message, then 2 Corinthians 6:14 must be applied where believers (who are to be in the light) are instructed not to be unequally yoked with those who are in spiritual darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is ironic that forty years ago, Christians were flocking to their churches by the tens of thousands to watch a film called The God Makers,<\/em> which warned about Mormonism, most particularly about the false Jesus of Mormonism.3 Today, in stark contrast, countless Christians are enthusiastically watching a film about Jesus that is Mormon-influenced with seemingly little concern or spiritual discernment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Are the Biblical Jesus and the Mormon Jesus the Same?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, <\/em>whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit<\/em>, which ye have not received, or another gospel<\/em>, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. (2 Corinthians 11:4, emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The apostle Paul warns that some will present a \u201cJesus\u201d to the church who is not<\/em> the Jesus of the Bible but is one who brings a spirit that is not <\/em>the Holy Spirit and a gospel that is not<\/em> the one that can save men\u2019s souls. Paul\u2019s concern is that some members of the church will embrace and \u201cbear with\u201d a false Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chosen\u2019s<\/em> director, co-writer, and chief publicist, Dallas Jenkins, has gone on record stating that the Mormon Jesus is the same as the Bible\u2019s Jesus. In an interview Jenkins did in May of 2020 on a Mormon program, he stated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can honestly say . . . 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 and learning so much about your faith tradition and realizing, gosh, for all the stuff that maybe we don\u2019t see eye to eye on, that all happened, that\u2019s all based on stuff that happened after Jesus was here. The stories of Jesus, we do agree on, and we love the same Jesus.<\/em> That\u2019s not something that you often hear. . . . I mean I\u2019ll sink or swim on that statement,<\/em> and it\u2019s controversial, and I don\u2019t mind getting criticized at all for the show, and I don\u2019t mind being called a blasphemer<\/em>. . . . I\u2019ve made it very clear that if I go down, I\u2019m going down swinging protecting my friends and my brothers and sisters <\/em>. . . I don\u2019t deny we have a lot of theological differences, but we love the same Jesus.<\/em>4 (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In the book, The God Makers,<\/em> Ed Decker and Dave Hunt state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mormon missionaries claim to be bringing true Christianity to the world. . . . When questioned, Mormons insist that their gospel comes from the Bible and that they have the same God and the same Jesus as Christians. In actual fact, they have a completely different God from what the Bible presents, a different Jesus, and a different gospel. These differences are denied or glossed over by the missionaries, who are often evasive and unwilling to tell the whole truth to a prospective convert for fear of losing him.5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Below is a list of some of the \u201cattributes\u201d of the Mormon Jesus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n