Good and bad are two notions we’re all familiar with. Actions have consequences and the idea of a heaven and a hell has to do with moral accountability. Of course, if we are indeed all “a fortuitous concourse of atoms generated in a universe that is governed by the laws of chance” the terms “good” and “bad” really have no meaning. The trouble is, we all find that rather difficult to live with. We do like to believe in moral accountability. Judgement is a concept we accept - we have legal systems designed to do deal with those who offend against society’s rules of behaviour. Heaven and hell describe two very different locations in afterlife, and it’s generally assumed that there is no middle ground, or sort of limbo, between the two. One person in history claimed to have knowledge of both places, and often spoke about them when he taught people. His name was Jesus. CS Lewis wrote this about him: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”