fact that we are not happy with the idea that everyone should make their own rules about what is right or wrong. However, if we don't approve of that, there are only two alternatives: either we are accountable to other human beings, which usually, though not always, means the majority (Marshall McLuhan has suggested that ethical norms could be established by a computer which would record simple majority decisions), or, if God exists, and if he is interested in our behaviour, we are ultimately accountable to him. The purpose of this booklet This booklet is written on the premise that God does exist and that he is interested in our behaviour and that any ideas of "morality" that do not take him into account are doomed to failure. Robert Kane, a secularist, in Through the Moral Maze : Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World , recognises the problem: We simply do not know enough to ground ethics necessarily in human reason and knowledge alone; and centuries of failure in trying to do so have led many to relativism, scepticism, and nihilism. "In this modern world we receive something like 16,000 value messages a day from one source or another" However, if God does exist, if he has created us for some purpose, and if he is ultimately going to judge us by some criteria of his choosing (more of that later), then it is obviously important to find out what he thinks about it all. The purpose of