pects of our response to him.
             First we have God as Creator. God created the universe and intends it be a place of order, of system and of structure (Genesis 1). Wherever we live in the world, whatever culture we are a part of, whichever people group we belong to we all have to exist in God's created world as God's created creatures. Corresponding to the created order, which we did not create and cannot escape, is the moral order in which we should live. As there is cause and effect in the physical realm so there is in the moral realm. The book of Proverbs illustrates this where behaviour is linked to an outcome. For example the law prohibits adultery whereas Proverbs warns of the appalling consequences of it (Proverbs 6:32-35). Similar to being bound by a physical order so human kind is bound by a moral order. Also in thinking of God as Creator we have to consider that we are made in his image which gives us two very important ethical principles; first the sanctity of life and second the equality of all people. Human life was treated as sacrosanct due to the image of God in man (Genesis 9:6) and even an animal that took human life was to be killed. The Old Testament seems to have different social stratums but the law did not distinguish between them. Based on the commonness of sharing the image of God the penalties for master and slave alike were the same.
             God as Covenant Maker elicits a response from the people of God. I his covenant with Abraham in Genesis 18:19 there is responsibility on Abraham to,
             "...direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just..."
             On the one hand this is the reason why God chooses Abraham, not because he was righteous but so that he would be righteous, and on
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