Real Tears

My kids enjoy videos from "The Greatest Adventure, stories from the Holy Bible" series. Yes, these are old (and I mean old) Hanna Barbera cartoons of Bible stories, where the archeologists pass through time and experience stories from the Bible. But I'm glad that my kids love to watch Bible stories!

So they are watching one on Noah's Ark, and all of a sudden Michael says, "Those are fake." What in the world is he talking about? Karl and I ask him and he said the tears on Noah. They are fake.

It seems that my walking encyclopedia had somewhere read that tears come from the inside corners of your eyes, not the outside corners. The animators had drawn the tears on Noah on the outside corners of his eyes. It was already fake, since it was a cartoon, but even then Michael noticed the error.

It seems that animation has come a long way since then. We recently watched Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. The whole family loved it and we even watched some of the "how they did it" features included in the 2 disc special we checked out from our local library.

It was amazing to see how the animators used computers, real lion hair samples, animal anatomy and physiology, green screen technology and numerous other things to make certain that all of their creatures looked as realistic as possible. It's getting tougher to tell which is real and which is fake (example: some of the wolves were real, some were fake, and some were real with computer enhancements).

However, Michael's simple stored up knowledge regarding where tears come from helped him to see that the animator on the old Noah's Ark cartoon didn't spend enough time to make things look as realistic as possible.

How about us? Have we spent enough time studying God's Word, so that when deceptions come our way, we can easily tell the fake from the genuine? Satan has had thousands of years to study human emotions, anatomy and physiology and who knows what else that we may not even be aware of ourselves. Our only defense against deception is God's Word, pure and simple, so we can look at one of Satan's deceptions and say "Those are fake."