Anime “The Chosen Adventures” unleashed on children

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The successful series “The Chosen” is getting an animated expansion. The target audience for the upcoming series “The Chosen Adventures” is primarily children, but also adults with a childlike faith. It’s a fantasy story for the “change of hearts.”

“The Chosen Ones” will have adventures

The successful series “The Chosen,” a film adaptation of the four gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, will soon be available as an animated film. It will be a unique version, with new “stories” and a redesigned “interpretation.” The target audience for the animated series “The Chosen Adventures” is children. A series with 14 installments currently planned.

It’s an open secret that the episodes of “The Chosen” that have aired so far bear only a superficial resemblance to the actual accounts in the four Gospels. There’s only a coincidence in names like Jesus, Peter, Luke, Paul, etc., but the “great rest” is simply an imaginatively reimagined retelling. The producer of the “Jesus series,” Dallas Jenkins, explained in an interview that 95 percent of the story is not taken from the Bible, but is based on his own creation (Info)

“Most of the content of this show is not from the Scripture. I know, it sounds horrible, but it’s true. If you’ve seen the first episode of the first season, almost none of it is from Scripture. If you look at the second episode of the second season, none of this is from Scripture. Episode three, none of it from Scripture. Episode four, most of it not from Scripture.” (Dallas Jenkins)

At least that’s clear language from the producer. But only a few of the series’ millions of fans seem to be bothered by this actual distance from the gospel. “A great film,” especially a very emotional one.

Believe like children

The animated series, which is about to launch, will also have the same character. In his interview with the evangelical magazine “The Christian Post,” Dallas Jenkins openly spoke about his motivation to “reimagines the life of Jesus and his followers” for children. After all, “The Chosen” would have contributed to “changing hearts and minds around the world.” (Source)

Jesus said, according to Dallas Jenkins, that adults should have the faith of a child. This childlike perspective is the core of the new animated series “The Chosen Adventures.” It’s also an opportunity for adults to rediscover their often-forgotten curiosity. The storylines in the new series reflect Jenkins’ personal journey of faith as well as his understanding of a creative mission.

“The Chosen Universe”

The producer doesn’t speak of the gospel as the basis for the new series, but rather of the “biblically grounded core of The Chosen universe.” This applies even when comedic dialogues are delivered and animals begin to speak. But even in this “playful format,” Jesus should remain authentic and true to his character from the gospel.

God, in Dallas Jenkins’ own words, is the only reason he works in Hollywood. His goal is to show children, who constantly have imaginary friends, Jesus as he really is. Someone “who loves them, who wants to succeed them and be their unique, beautiful selves.” The children would appear very differently in the world.

In essence, the exact opposite

The producer has thus served up pretty much every narrative that it exactly shouldn’t. “The Chosen Universe” contains only about 5 percent gospel, and everything else is interpretation, original creation, and wishful thinking. If this serves as the basis for the animated film now being unleashed on children, then the result can be predicted in advance. It’s simply an original story with popular characters, but nothing more.

The true message of the gospel is completely lost in this. Instead, there are fair-weather teachings for a better and more successful later life and confident assertion. The (true) gospel has a clear message on this:
“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” (James 4:4)

An emotional gospel for the good feeling of seemingly being right. A humanism packaged as Christianity that puts humanity at the center. Added to that is a mere “touch of Jesus” and his exemplary qualities, especially his love. The core evangelical message is something like, “Jesus loves you; that’s the whole good news. Everything else is optional, if not superfluous. Make sure you are happy and successful in this world. Just be yourself!”

Clear direction

Here, too, the emerging fusion between humanism and the Gospel becomes apparent. Man, as the absolute center of all things, possessed of a “spark of divinity” that only needs to be rekindled, and a portion of Jesus Christ. Taking people by the hand, in their intoxicating wall of complacent emotions, they are led straight into a certain nothingness. (Info).

A perfectly legitimate question in this regard was who this producer’s “God” actually is, if he is driven to produce fiction in Hollywood. To have faith like children, yes, that’s what Jesus Christ said, but in the gospel and not in theosophical nonsense.

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