I did not intend to watch House of David, but when a few people told me they were enjoying it and asked what I thought, I decided to give it a go. But before I discuss House of David, I want to talk about The Chosen.
I have not watched The Chosen and do not intend to because it’s my conviction that it would violate the Second Commandment (or at least the spirit of the Second Commandment). I was raised around catechisms that were written at the time of the Reformation when a pressing question was whether Christians should create or venerate images of God. They were uniformly opposed. So from my youngest days, I have had an uneasy relationship with portrayals of Jesus, especially when they are meant to be realistic and to cause us to think we are “seeing Jesus” through an actor. A cartoon Jesus in a children’s Bible is less offensive to me than a human actor portraying him, though I prefer neither. I have not watched The Chosen because my conscience tells me it would be both unwise and sinful for me to watch. However, while those are my
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