I found this book to be engaging, but I'm pretty sure that is because I'm already a Jesus follower. I had hoped that it would be something that my unbelieving family might take the challenge to read, and I don't think that will be the case. None the less, I come away encouraged to be careful to not take anything out of context and to dive deeper when there are things that are hard to swallow (such as God killing all the Egyptian newborns). I am that Christian who gave my kids Bibles but kept them from any violence or immorality on TV. I have memories of Moses and Noah on a felt board ..... in the middle of stories that have a lot of death and hardship - and somehow they were fun children's stories. If anything I come away wanting to dig deeper, be more curious, and connect the dots..... as always, we don't know what we don't know, and we don't know what goes without saying in previous generations.