A scene from Ben Hur.

The life and atonement of our Savior have inspired some of the all-time great works of art. Painters like Caravaggio and Bloch, composers such as Handel, literary masters like St. Augustine and Charles Dickens, and sculptors like Michaelangelo have found in Jesus the inspiration for some of their most impressive and moving works. Film has as much potential to inspire and edify as any other art form, but while the Son of God was perfect, movies about Him are not. Sanctimonious melodrama and fake beards tend to distract from the "greatest story ever told." Still, when artistry and faith are in harmonious balance, audiences feel their souls and minds drawn closer to God.
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