Story Time Jesus

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Story Time Jesus portrays Jesus Christ as a storyteller who retells Biblical narratives with a contemporary flair, making Him seem more user-friendly and accessible to insiders and outsiders of the Christian faith.

Story Time Jesus memes feature an image of Lars Justinen’s painting, The Parable, which shows a diverse group of people gathered around Jesus Christ as He explains various concepts about creation, life, death, and other Biblical parables. The twelve-meme sample was taken from the website knowyourmeme.com. The sampling strategy concentrated on identifying memes that demonstrate three main characteristics: 1) retell Biblical narratives in a hyper-modernized fashion, 2) state the scripture reference that directly applies (or be able to clearly infer which Biblical story is being referenced), 3) portray the Christian faith as a playful, user-friendly religion

Story Time Jesus has been used to retell and exploit a wide range of Biblical stories/topics; He is portrayed as a general storyteller in each meme with no focus on one specific idea or type of story. He is often used in a positive, playful way, although Story Time Jesus memes often exhibit sarcasm and hyperbole.

History & Origins: 
The image of Jesus Christ in this meme series comes from American artist Lars Justinen’s painting, The Parable. The image is consistent in every meme, without any edits, Photoshop, or manipulations to the image.

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The “Come At Me Bro” meme refers to when Jesus is teaching lessons about proper Christian behavior to a large group of people in chapter 6 of Luke.
The “Embrace Me Bro!” meme refers to the passage miracle of healing that Jesus performs in Mark 2 to a man who is paralyzed. Humor types of playfulness and incongruity are exhibited in this sampling.
This meme refers to the Biblical passage where Jesus asks Abraham to sacrifice his son as a testing of Abraham's trust and faith in Jesus.