it answered the major questions people have always asked. It dealt not only with the questions Who is God? What is He like? It also gave answers to the questions of Who are we as people? How ought we to live together? What meaning does human life have? In this way, Judeo-Christianity formed a general cultural consensus. That is, it provided the basic moral and social values by which things were judged. Judeo-Christian teaching was never perfectly applied, but it did lay a foundation for a high view