God is not simply a personal, transcendent creator; he is holy and righteous as well, and he expects the same from humanity. In most of the pagan world, ethics was part of philosophy, not religion. It would be difficult to find strong moral standards among the gods of Greece and Rome. For example, Jupiter (Greek Zeus) regularly impregnates human women, provoking his wife Juno/Hera to jealousy and revenge against the children;
