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Month: December 2021
“THE CHOSEN” FICTION: What’s Wrong With “The Chosen” TV Series? T. A. McMahon of Bereancall.org Sums it Up in his Stellar Article (AUDIO and VIDEO INCLUDED)
FIRST I think that it’s of utmost importance for the reader to watch this video. Click on “Watch on YouTube”
Brothers and sisters in Christ, I cannot tell you how many times I communicated with the people responsible for “The Chosen” series. I even got through via email to Dallas Jenkins but to no avail at all. I came to them in a “Let us reason together” attitude. Each time I was shut down. I nearly wrote an article about this a number of times, but then put it back into drafts. I’m very glad that I listened to the Lord because this article from Bereancall.org says it all!
Audio Version of Article. click to listen
From bereancall.org
“THE CHOSEN” FICTION
December 1, 2021 T. A. McMahon
At a conference not too long ago, I was asked to give a review of The Chosen TV Series. I did so, but before I began my critique, I informed the audience that I hadn’t watched even one frame of the series, and my guess was that that revelation would make more than a few people upset with my criticisms. The immediate response by those enamored with the series about the life of Christ was to scorn everything I said, saying, “He’s like those who criticize books, even the Bible, without having read them!” I can relate to that. I’ve had many discussions with some who tell me what the Bible says without having read it themselves, so I can see why my initial review and its approach would put some people off.
Since my first critique I have viewed a couple of the programs, parts of which I’ll address. However, I want to explain why I believe watching the series is not necessary for rejecting it. In doing so, my explanations will appeal to Scripture and reason in light of Isaiah’s words, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD” (Isaiah:1:18).
Why isn’t it necessary to watch The Chosen in order to criticize it, and how would that be any different than critiquing a novel without having read it? First of all, a novel is defined generally as “a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.” In other words, it’s a made-up story. Yet it must be read in order to be evaluated.
Not so with The Chosen. It professes to be true to the Bible’s teachings, as well as a faithful representation of the Bible’s stories and characters. The Bible, however, declares itself to be inerrant and infallible in all that it teaches, as well as God’s authority in all that it commands. It’s God’s Word. If it condemns any attempt to visually represent the content and characters of the Bible (which it does) then one has no need to watch The Chosen because it claims to visually represent it—in direct disobedience to the Scriptures.
All biblical movies are visual translations and interpretations of the words and narrative presented in the Bible. If a Christian was aware that the Bible condemns visual translations and interpretations of the Scriptures, there would be no need to evaluate a movie or video series based upon the Bible before rejecting them. But does the Bible denounce any such attempts to translate/interpret it through a visual medium?
It does. And it does so in many indisputable ways. But before I point out the scriptures related to the Bible’s denunciation of such productions, I need to present some of the components that are involved in the production of making a movie that must be considered when determining whether or not “biblical movies” can be truly biblical. These are things I know and have experienced while studying filmmaking in graduate school and having worked for 20th Century Fox studios for a number of years. I then moved on to a career as a screenwriter in Hollywood before being saved and spending four decades in Christian ministry with Dave Hunt.
This is how the process works. A movie begins with a screenplay. It’s either an original story or a screen adaptation from someone else’s work (such as the Bible). The screenplay or movie script, in addition to presenting the storyline or plot, the characters, and the dialogue, consists of visual descriptions of what is taking place in the movie story. For example, if a scene calls for a vehicle, a description is needed for the art director or prop man to find the right kind of car for a particular scene or purpose. If the script calls for the car to be crashed, that needs to be described in detail if the crash is going to be unique and significant to the storyline. This is just one example of the creative input that is necessary for the filmmaking process.
Although the screenwriter is the initial composer of the movie script, changes to the script always take place during filming. Such changes are usually made by the movie’s director. Reasons for the changes from the original script are seemingly endless: actors’ egos, budget cuts, weather problems, location problems, the executive producer’s ego, the cameraman’s “inspirational idea” for filming a scene, union problems, stunt failures, the director’s ego, etc. The author of the motion picture, for the most part, is the screenwriter, even though contributions of interpretation also come from the director, the actors, and a host of others creatively involved in the filming process.
All of that and much more are involved in every attempt to translate the Bible itself into a theatrical motion picture for the silver screen and/or television. The question therefore, for every Bible-believing Christian, is this: Can the Bible be presented through the filmmaking process and stay true to what God’s Word says about His Word?
Well, what does it say? Proverbs:30:5-6
:“Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar” (italics added). God’s words are His words, written down by men, His prophets (2 Peter:1:20-21
). “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device” (Acts:17:29
, emphasis added).
“I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book” (Revelation:22:18-19).
Read rest of article HERE
For further insights into the problems with visually translating the Bible, we recommend Showtime for the Sheep and “The Bible According to Hollywood.” For materials related to the cult of Mormonism we recommend The God Makers and “Mormon Fiction” [see TBC article August 2
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Dr. Peter McCullough: “VACCINE MANDATES SHOULD BE REPEALED!”
A dog keeps an eye on the presses as a woman has a swab taken at a drive-through COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney, on Dec. 21, 2021. (Rick Rycroft/AP Photo)
From theepochtimes.com
COVID-19 vaccine mandates “have to be repealed” as the vaccines are “still in research” and “people cannot be mandated to participate in research,” says Dr. Peter McCullough.
McCullough, a cardiologist, epidemiologist, and internist who manages COVID-19 patients with heart-related complications and patients who become ill after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine, contends that COVID-19 vaccine mandates violate the Nuremberg Code.Related CoverageDr. Peter McCullough: The Inexplicable Suppression of Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and Other COVID-19 Treatments | PART 1
“When it comes to research, research can only be voluntary. And under no circumstances can anyone receive any pressure, coercion, or threat of reprisal—cannot. It violates the cornerstone of ethics; it’s unethical, it’s immoral to do that,” he says.
McCullough notes that the CDC and FDA have yet to publish “their first monthly safety report” on the vaccines, and that as of Dec. 17, the CDC’s VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) has reported 20,622 deaths post-vaccination and over 983,000 adverse events.
While VAERS has issued a disclaimer discouraging the interpretation of its data “to reach conclusions about existence, severity, frequency, or rates of problems associated with vaccines,” McCullough says that the system’s death reports deserve serious attention.
He cites a June 2021 analysis of VAERS COVID-19 vaccine death reports led by the University of London’s Scott Mclachlan. Mclachlan found that “contrary to claims that most of these reports are made by lay-people and are hence clinically unreliable,” health service employees were the reporters at least 67 percent of the time, and “there were only 14 percent of the cases for which a vaccine reaction could be ruled out as a contributing factor in their death.”
COVID-19 vaccines commonly used in the United States use genetic mechanisms to install genetic material into cells, and then the cells produce the spike protein of the virus, says McCullough. “That’s the mechanism of the spike protein, it’s the dangerous and lethal part of the virus.”
The “uncontrolled quantity and duration of spike protein” produced by the vaccine in the human body “almost certainly is the proximate cause of death,” according to McCullough.
McCullough said that the data satisfy all five of the Bradford Hill criteria, a framework scientists use to work out whether one thing is causing another. In this case, because COVID-19 vaccination data satisfies the Bradford Hill principles, McCullough says that reported deaths are highly likely caused by COVID-19 vaccinations.
McCullough also mentioned the “non-fatal events that just go right along” with COVID-19 deaths which makes it more plausible that the vaccines are causing adverse reactions and in turn, deaths.
VAERS has recorded more than 20,000 reports of death post-vaccination according to its database. Between January 2021 and October 2021, more than 1,000 deaths were reported per month, with over 3,000 deaths reported as having occurred on an unknown date.
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported 10,483 deaths to VAERS between Dec. 14, 2020, and Dec. 13, 2021.
A lawsuit was recently filed against the FDA by a medical transparency group, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT) formed by a group of doctors and scientists, including Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.
The FDA has asked a judge to grant it 75 years to fully release the documents in its possession tied to the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.Related CoverageDr. Peter McCullough: The Inexplicable Suppression of Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and Other COVID-19 Treatments | PART 1
Aaron Siri, a lawyer working on the case, on Dec. 8 wrote, “If you find what you are reading difficult to believe—that is because it is dystopian for the government to give Pfizer billions, mandate Americans to take its product, prohibit Americans from suing for harms, but yet refuse to let Americans see the data underlying its licensure.”
Since its initial announcement of vaccine mandates in both the federal and private sectors, the Biden administration has emphasized that “vaccines are safe, free, and the most effective way for workers to be protected from COVID-19 transmission at work.”
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Twitter ‘Twits’ Ban DR. ROBERT MALONE – Inventor of the mRNA Jab: His Offense? Speaking TRUTH About the Cov19 Genetic Experiment
Jesus said: “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” (John 15:18).
From americanthinker.com
Looks like the ignorant, malevolent little Katzenjammer Kidz of Twitter are back at it.
This time they’ve banned a biggie, Dr. Robert W. Malone, the medical doyen whose research on the mRNA vaccine has been critical to the development of the vaccines for COVID.
He’s the guy who probably knows more about these vaccines than anyone else.
His banning offense?
Warning about the risks and limits of the mRNA vaccines, based on his bona fide scientific research, which included studies of young athletes who dropped dead of heart failure after taking them, and a suggestion that the vaccines not be given to kids.
According to the Daily Caller:
Malone contributed to the development of mRNA vaccine technology, performing an experiment as a graduate student at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in which he blended strands of mRNA with fat droplets which, when applied to human cells, caused the cells to start producing proteins, Nature reported. Malone hypothesized that this newfound technology could be used to treat illnesses as a drug.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Malone attracted criticism for allegedly spreading misinformation, both on his Twitter account and in public appearances, about mRNA vaccines used to treat COVID-19. Malone’s commentary included questions about the safety of the vaccines for children and young adults.
Recent posts on his blog suggest a link between athletes dying from heart illnesses and vaccination.
We all knew it would happen eventually.
Today it did. Over a half million followers gone in a blink of an eye. That means I must have been on the mark, so to speak. Over the target. It also means we lost a critical component in our fight to stop these vaccines being mandated for children and to stop the corruption in our governments, as well as the medical-industrial complex and pharmaceutical industries.
So, please spread the word — share this on your own twitter feed or whatever social media venue you wish.
My Substack sign-up is:
…here. He added an Orwellian meme to his post: “Looks like you have too much to think.”
First, let’s note that Malone is hardly the sort of nut who’s been banned on Twitter in the past for spreading so-called dis- and mis-information. He’s not a compulsive vaccine skeptic. He invented the COVID vaccine, after all.
Second, his banning is part of an ugly pattern of going after those with the medical chops to explain what’s happening.
For some reason, the corporate interests that control Twitter have had a thing for banning anyone questioning the vaccine and its efficacy.
Recall that they slapped a caution note on information gathered and tweeted by the American Heart Association, as if those guys wouldn’t know what they were talking about regarding heart risk.
They also banned former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who reports the vax news without fear or favor. He’s suing the bastards, as they deserve.
They temporarily banned famed epidemiologist and Harvard professor Martin Kulldorf, M.D., whose work has been cited in more than 25,000 medical papers and who was an author the Great Barrington Declaration, signed by over 60,000 doctors and scientists, which questioned various government COVID policies as counterproductive. He has noted that not everyone needs a COVID vaccine, given his recognition of patients with certain vulnerabilities, as well as broad and deep understanding of natural immunity. Bottom line here: He’s a medical bigfoot, and if Twitter is right that his research is no good, then a whole lot of other medical research derived from it and cited as sources is wrong, too. Might as well throw out all the medical books, based on the punk censors of Twitter’s “wisdom.”
Pfizer, meanwhile, which is kind of the bellwether for Big Pharma, not only has immunity from lawsuits for vaccine injuries, but also has managed to secure 75 years of secrecy on its medical records and research regarding what its people know about the vaccine. Wonder why.
Is this starting to sound like a plot? The punks of Twitter really seem to have a “thing” for silencing anyone who asks questions about various instances of healthy young people dropping dead from heart attacks and related ailments shortly after their COVID vaccines.
That’s precisely what needs to be examined, as a priority, in fact, given that suppression of this news is a big factor in public distrust of the vaccines.
Most people generally can tolerate the vaccines well — I know I have, I’ve been vaxxed thrice — but there are those who should hold off based on unacceptable risk, and they should be identified, warned, and exempted from vax mandates. The New York Times, as I wrote about here, actually lost a top editor in the prime of life a day after he took a booster vaccine, something they ought to be upset about and at least asking question about. (FOR CLARIFICATION: THE PERSON WHO SAYS HE HAS BEEN VAXXED THRICE WAS NOT ME! I HAVE NEVER AND WILL NEVER BE JABBED!!!!)
But instead, all we see are these Twitter morons, who run their Twitter censorship operation by mob rule as well orders from the top, who are systematically suppressing news of the COVID vaccine that the public actually has a right to know about.
It’s Orwellian, and it smacks of some kind of corporate or Chinese interest in keeping the public ignorant and in the dark.
It also won’t work. The more they censor, the more interesting these researchers get to many of us. Had many of us even heard of Malone before this happened? Follow him on Substack now. He’s obviously got something important and vital to say. SOURCE
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