The new five statement bible summary meme

by clayboy on November 24, 2009 · 15 comments

Summarising is a mug’s game, or possibly a meme. After my attack on Packer’s summary of the New Testament yesterday, David Ker suggested that summarising the message might make a good meme. So, allowing for creative adaptation of the rules, here’s a go at some rules for a new meme.

Summarise the Bible in five statements, the first one word long, the second two, the third three, the fourth four and the last five words long. Or possibly you could do this in descending order. Tag five people.

Here’s my starter:

Creation
Shit happens
Prophets produce perseverance
Executed Christ promoted Lord
All things shall be well.

Over to you.

I tag David Ker (natch), Peter Kirk, David Keen, Mike Whitenton and for my fifth I would like to see a five statement summary of the beliefs of the Beaker folk.

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1 David Ker November 24, 2009 at 18:47: Yeehaw. I’ll see what I can do.
2 David Ker November 24, 2009 at 18:52: LOL that Beaker stuff is inspiring.
3 Archdruid Eileen November 25, 2009 at 08:11: Thanks for the challenge, consider it done.
4 Simmary November 25, 2009 at 19:29: Sorry no one else has accepted the invitation. My offering is a bit over-enthusiastic, I fear.

Begin!
Damaged goods
Keep right on!
Lord – Christ- you choose
Alleluia! Our God Reigns! Amen!
5 clayboy November 25, 2009 at 22:18: A good one there.
6 anthony November 26, 2009 at 04:06: light
life assembling
aspiring mind failing
what hath God wrought
you take it from here
7 Bob MacDonald November 27, 2009 at 19:43: Here’s an rnswr from me – order reversed for English version – I justify my counts here

Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One
and-they-will-fear him all-the-extremities-of earth
of-the-hearing of-an-ear I-had-heard-of-you
Let-us-catch foxes
Desolations
8 Charles Burch November 28, 2009 at 16:18: here’s my condensed effort

Light
Slave liberation
Covenant, exile, expectation
Murdered healing Rabbi rises
Death ended: new heaven, earth
9 Yewtree November 29, 2009 at 22:24: Interesting game. I found your Christology interestingly Arian, Mr Clayboy. Here’s my five statements.
10 Paul Oakley December 4, 2009 at 19:59: Here are my five:

Cosmogony
Jealous God
Slavery yields freedom
Coalescence – people and law
Afterlife: we forget our bodies

(Also posted on my blog)

I love Bob MacDonald’s erudite rendition!
11 Steve Hayes December 6, 2009 at 02:14: It might be interesting to track this meme and where it went, and a collection of soem of the results.
12 Bob MacDonald December 6, 2009 at 17:24: It has gone a long way outside my normal readings! E.g. here