Sounds easy peasy, right? Trifecta says, “Take your favorite book and tell it in 33 words. No more, no less. So, my friends, here is my Cliff Notes version of the Bible. Peace, and please keep your humor! Amy
THE BIBLE (condensed version)
God creates everything,
pulls Adam’s rib to form Eve.
Except in Genesis 2.
Moses delivers Commandments.
People mess up, drown, turn to salt.
Jesus comes, says “Love,” gets killed.
Revelation still scares kids.
© 2012 Amy Barlow Liberatore/Sharp Little Pencil
Also at my poetic home, Poets United.
NOTE: In Genesis, Chapter 2, the Bible says that God created Adam from dust and the Spirit blew life into him, completely contradicting the first account. Biblical literalists, please take note!
Sharp Little Pencil 
El Guapo
This needs to be on a t shirt!!!
Christine
Ha! Ambitious and awesome – I love it! My favorite line was “except in Genesis 2.” Just fantastic!
OldDogNewTits
I totally considered doing the bible, too. I was even planning to cover the New Testament. Glad I moved on. Your version is excellent. Great job!
vivinfrance
Excellent – thousands of small print pages into 33 words took some doing!
Love,
ViV
Poetry & Icecream
Well done Amy! Revelation still scares me 🙂
Tilly Bud
Clever!
It’s not just kids that Revelation scares, I’m guessing 🙂
Love this, Amy.
vanhaydu
Hi friend…great writing. I’m inspired by your posts. Nice job writing this one…this challenge sort of made me mad, and glad at the same time…
Looking forward to your next post 🙂
on thehomefrontandbeyond
good job – gets rid of all that filler stuff
HaikuWater
Wow!!!! and again, Wow!!! So great!
John
Clever take on the challenge!
Lance
as a believer thanks for not calling Mary Magdalene a whore
well done, Amy. although my kids think Revelations is cool. They;r’e weird like there father.
Libby
Wow!! Really good job!!!!! You got the whole thing in here from alpha to omega 🙂
hollyannegetspoetic
“People mess up” – love it! Last line made me laugh aloud!
barbara
congrats on whittling down so many books to 33 words – not sure how Genesis 2 contradicts Genesis 1. God formed Adam, then formed Eve from a rib from Adam. Gen. 1 is a type of prologue. Anyway – good read. Thanks.
Cipriano
This is EXCELLENT!
I really like it — although you forgot to mention the VITAL stories of the talking donkey and the bears that come out of the forest to kill a pile of children because they mocked a man who was bald. [2 Kings 2:23-24].
Here is a specific URL to a somewhat topically-relevant poem of mine:
http://poetrypuddle.blogspot.ca/2008/01/apostrophe.html
Cheers!
Happy writing to you!
— Cip
dberonilla
I thought this was brilliant!
I wouldn’t even know where to begin with the Bible. Great job!
Amelia
I found this very amusing.
Cameron
The Bible in 33 words. Color me impressed.
jannatwrites
One of my goals has been to read the entire Bible…does this count? Love the last line!
oncealibrarian
Good one! Like everyone else I loved the Genesis 2 bit.
Trifecta (@trifectawriting)
First of all, I loved that you put condensed version on the title, like a warning to not get your hackles raised, people. I thought you did a bang up job of pulling out the very most important parts of an absolute epic book. And revelations still scares me too.
Thanks for playing. Come on back Monday for the big 33rd challenge, it’s going to be fun.
Sarav
A perfect summary Amy! Love, love, love–(I think the Beatles summarized it too 😉
Old Egg
Well that certainly illustrates the point that the Bible is an instruction manual and not always to be read literally. There’s always something there to suit our needs; not always a good thing!
julespaige
The whole thing could be scary – All the rules, interpretations, extrapolations – I quite agree with your friend there – put this on a “T – shirt” –
My son has a ‘T’ that says; “Sarcasm – Just one of the services I offer”
While I was to late to ‘enter’ or just didn’t know how I penned one of my favorites here:
http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/2012/06/trifecta-challenge-baums-oz.html
zongrik
all of religion scares children. religion and religious training should be considered child abuse. how many kids in history have had horrible nightmares because of religions.
Tess Kincaid
Revelation scares me! Thanks for stopping by my blog and for the nice comment. Nice to meet you Amy.