{"id":18704,"date":"2023-08-24T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=18704"},"modified":"2023-08-24T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:44:18","slug":"popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees","title":{"rendered":"Popular Pastor, Christian Commentator Voddie Baucham Believes \u201cThe Chosen\u201d Violates the Second Commandment; Dallas Jenkins Disagrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18710\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/08\/Voddie-Baucham_credit-angel-studios_Inset-Heartbeat-International-flickr-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18710\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/08\/Voddie-Baucham_credit-angel-studios_Inset-Heartbeat-International-flickr-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Studios | Inset: Heartbeat International \/ Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Popular Christian pastor and social commentator Voddie Baucham appeared on \u201c<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/onLHQLnFUbk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Babylon Bee Podcast<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201d earlier this month, where he revealed he would not watch the popular series \u201cThe Chosen\u201d because he believes it\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/voddie-baucham-says-he-wont-watch-the-chosen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">violates the Second Commandment<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. \u201c2CV, man. Second Commandment violation,\u201d he told the hosts. The Second Commandment states in Exodus 20:4-5, \u201cThou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The exact application of the Second Commandment has caused a split amongst Christians, with some, like Baucham, insisting it means there ought not to be any representations of any member of the Trinity in any form, while others insist it means that images should not be made for the purpose of worship. Travis Kearns, writing for\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/g3min.org\/the-chosen-and-the-second-commandment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">G3 Ministries<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, gave a detailed history of the understanding of the Second Commandment prohibiting any representation of any member of the Trinity. The article countered an argument by theologian J.I. Packer that the Second Commandment only refers to images for worship, saying, \u201cSo Packer argues the second commandment applies specifically to the use of images in worship. It can be argued, however, that any representation of a member of the Trinity would come to the mind of the believer while at worship; therefore, no image of the Father, Son, or Spirit should be created by humanity.\u201d<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dallas Jenkins, creator of \u201cThe Chosen,\u201d responded to the criticism with a lengthy\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DallasJenkinsOfficial\/posts\/853039463054934?ref=embed_post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Facebook post.<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0\u201cI love Voddie Baucham, but I think this take is misapplied,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe 2nd commandment is clearly referring to objects of worship, and most likely, specifically objects of worship that compete with God.\u201d He went on to quote Exodus 20:4-6 and then wrote, \u201cPastor Baucham\u2019s logic is that because a movie or show portraying Christ is showing someone who comes from heaven, then it\u2019s idolatrous. Or because it\u2019s the portrayal of God, an image of God, it\u2019s idolatrous. But it\u2019s not the portrayal or image itself that\u2019s the issue\u2026 It\u2019s clearly the worship of it.\u201d He shared that he agreed that God should be put first over any idols but that \u201cno one is worshiping the TV screen.\u201d \u201cOn no conceivable level does The Chosen compare to the gods and idols and images the Israelites were potentially worshiping to compete with God,\u201d he concluded in his statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To date, Baucham has not responded to Jenkins\u2019s post, but he has expressed his dislike of any images of Jesus in the past and has stated that believers should <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=664111911932076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">get rid of pictures of Jesus<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0from their homes. Others have expressed some concerns about the way \u201cThe Chosen,\u201d particularly actor Jonathan Roumie\u2019s portrayal of Jesus, has invaded their concept of Jesus. In a 2021\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churched\/2021\/08\/why-i-cant-watch-the-chosen-a-letter-to-west-franklin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Patheos article<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0reflective of the concerns in Kearns\u2019s post, Pastor Matt Pearson at The Church at West Franklin in Tennessee wrote that he quit watching the series as he began to imagine Roumie\u2019s Jesus when he prayed. \u201cAfter I watch several minutes of an episode of \u2018The Chosen,\u2019 I find that when I pray, I pray to the Jesus playing the character of Jesus in the television series. My mind goes to him. My attention goes to him. My words are expressed to him. I find that I am not talking to the Jesus of the Scriptures, but the Jesus portrayed in \u2018The Chosen.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Christian pastor and social commentator Voddie Baucham appeared on \u201cThe Babylon Bee Podcast\u201d earlier this month, where he revealed he would not watch the popular series \u201cThe Chosen\u201d because he believes it\u00a0violates the Second Commandment. \u201c2CV, man. Second Commandment violation,\u201d he told the hosts. The Second Commandment states in Exodus 20:4-5, \u201cThou shalt not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":18710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Popular Pastor, Christian Commentator Voddie Baucham Believes \u201cThe Chosen\u201d Violates the Second Commandment; Dallas Jenkins Disagrees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Voddie Baucham speaks about &quot;The Chosen&quot; while on \u201cThe Babylon Bee Podcast.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Popular Pastor, Christian Commentator Voddie Baucham Believes \u201cThe Chosen\u201d Violates the Second Commandment; Dallas Jenkins Disagrees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Voddie Baucham speaks about &quot;The Chosen&quot; while on \u201cThe Babylon Bee Podcast.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beliefnet News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-24T15:44:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/08\/Voddie-Baucham_credit-angel-studios_Inset-Heartbeat-International-flickr-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cecilia Buchanan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Popular Pastor, Christian Commentator Voddie Baucham Believes \u201cThe Chosen\u201d Violates the Second Commandment; Dallas Jenkins Disagrees","description":"Voddie Baucham speaks about \"The Chosen\" while on \u201cThe Babylon Bee Podcast.\u201d","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Popular Pastor, Christian Commentator Voddie Baucham Believes \u201cThe Chosen\u201d Violates the Second Commandment; Dallas Jenkins Disagrees","og_description":"Voddie Baucham speaks about \"The Chosen\" while on \u201cThe Babylon Bee Podcast.\u201d","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees","og_site_name":"Beliefnet News","article_published_time":"2023-08-24T15:44:18+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":576,"url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/08\/Voddie-Baucham_credit-angel-studios_Inset-Heartbeat-International-flickr-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Cecilia Buchanan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees","name":"Popular Pastor, Christian Commentator Voddie Baucham Believes \u201cThe Chosen\u201d Violates the Second Commandment; Dallas Jenkins Disagrees","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/08\/Voddie-Baucham_credit-angel-studios_Inset-Heartbeat-International-flickr-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2023-08-24T15:44:18+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-24T15:44:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/77cb6eeb5c74ee0eb8c77ea1ebc43c6a"},"description":"Voddie Baucham speaks about \"The Chosen\" while on \u201cThe Babylon Bee Podcast.\u201d","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/08\/Voddie-Baucham_credit-angel-studios_Inset-Heartbeat-International-flickr-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/08\/Voddie-Baucham_credit-angel-studios_Inset-Heartbeat-International-flickr-scaled.jpg","width":768,"height":576,"caption":"Angel Studios | Inset: Heartbeat International \/ Flickr"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/08\/popular-pastor-christian-commentator-voddie-baucham-believes-the-chosen-violates-the-second-commandment-dallas-jenkins-disagrees#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Popular Pastor, Christian Commentator Voddie Baucham Believes \u201cThe Chosen\u201d Violates the Second Commandment; Dallas Jenkins Disagrees"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/","name":"Beliefnet News","description":"Top Religious News From Around the World","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/77cb6eeb5c74ee0eb8c77ea1ebc43c6a","name":"Leigh Pizzutilla","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/824\/82495162063119d033794eb2206a0067x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/824\/82495162063119d033794eb2206a0067x96.jpg","caption":"Leigh Pizzutilla"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/author\/lpizzutilla"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18716,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions\/18716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}