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We say this all the time, and we mean it. Jesus is a genius.

Everything he does is because he knows more than us about every single thing.

He made us.

He made us.

I saw this study.

I was reminded again.

Like, oh, yeah, right.

Studies consistently show that people are better at memorizing information when it's presented in narrative form.

And we remember you tell the thing that you need to get across to people in a form of a story and they put themselves in a story and it sticks.

Imagine before you even had books.

How do you how if you loved people and you wanted them

and understand something deeply, how would you do that?

Here's Jesus with story after story after story.

Not long debates about intense theological subjects.

If he did, we don't have much record of it.

That's like stories, oh yeah, that's the way to go.

Huh, study here says, and I quote, study, colon, you can be born bad at math.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't remember really, but my mom said she didn't remember me doing any, like, differential equations or anything.

Yeah.

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