So Carl McColman tagged me in a meme – the Bible in five statements. As Matt Stone has put the challenge:
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.
As Carl’s friend Yewtree muses,
What aspect of this multivalent text to focus on? The liberal or the conservative interpretation? Western Christianity or Eastern Orthodoxy? A Kabbalistic or esoteric interpretation? The Arian and Unitarian views? Changing human perceptions of the divine – from tribal thunder god to all-embracing universal consciousness? How notions of justice changed from tribal codes apparently dictated from the top of Mount Sinai towards concepts of compassion and inner conscience (starting with Micah and Amos, and later promoted by Yeshua)? Very tricky to summarise all that in 15 words…
Yes indeed! So here’s my post?/evangelical, composted Christian Bible statement:
Ours
God-breathed
A living paradox
Fully human, fully divine
Lifetime of prayer and study
I tag…lessee…Andrew Jones, Tripp Fuller, Traci Rowe, Nick Fiedler, and Frank Viola.
zoecarnate 
I posted one elsewhere that seems to have been cyber-erased, so I’ll see if I can refashion something like it here:
Creator
created co-creator
incarnate Creator recreating
created co-creator now recreating
and all shall be well
I love it!
I like yours very much, Zoecarnate, and thanks for the link and the quote 🙂
I also like John Sobvert Sylvest’s one, above.
Love your take on it, Mike.
here is my go
http://thehopefulskeptic.com/blog/?p=202
Creation
from chaos.
We re-create chaos
repeatedly. And repeatedly, He
picks up the broken pieces.
Very clever, line-break master! I like.
Love
If only
All Christians loved
Like Jesus loved us
People might actually like us
Here’s my cliffnotes. http://aywng.th8.us
Spirit
wears flesh
Holy embraces filthy
He first loved us
Now we love with abandon.
(All the versions have been great… enjoying reading them.)