Same Bible, Very Different God

Last week, an atheist came up to me and asked how I could believe in a God who made parents eat their children. 

Naturally, I was a little confused. A lot of people have odd ideas about God, but cannibalism? That was new. 

I was speaking at an event, and the theme that weekend was the Bible—in all its weirdness and mystery and drama and truth and lies and violence and nonviolence and sarcastic…