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Some of you may be saying, "Hey! You've mixed up the words in the title! It's supposed to be, 'A picture is worth a thousand words.'" But it's turned around on purpose. I'll explain later.
Millions of kids and adults in the Western world often rely on"pictures" (movies, videos and images) to learn things—and to be entertained in the process! Often this is done through TV or the movies—even biblical or religious movies.
Many of you have heard of and watched the movie The Ten Commandments. This 1956 epic film has turned into a classic as far as religious movies go—one that religious and biblical movies have been judged by ever since.
I remember seeing the movie for the first time when I was barely 5 years old, and the images of the parting of the Red Sea and God speaking to Moses on Mt. Sinai are still indelibly etched into my mind after all these years!
But at age 5 my interest in biblical scholarship and studying the Word of God was nonexistent! The movie was great entertainment, but I really had no idea how accurate it was.
However, since that time I have come to understand that while there were some elements of the Cecil B. DeMille movie that were consistent with the Bible (and some powerful images of the miracles of God in the life of Moses and children of Israel), it was simply not very accurate when compared to "the book"—in this case, the Bible.
In the years that followed, other religious movies have come and gone, including Ben-Hur (1959), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and The Bible . . . In the Beginning (1966), to mention just a few.
There have also been controversial biblical movies such as Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (2003). These movies attempted to capture the producer's view of the life or death of Jesus—each claiming to depict the possible reality of both Jesus' temptations and His suffering.
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