Do you need to be a Christian to have a moral code?

[satanoid]

He sacrificed himself to himself in order to appease a blood debt he imposed upon his own creations.

Yeah, totally logical and believeable, its a wonder anybody rejects christianity.

[Tricky D]

True, I don't get the holy trinity concept either.
To me God=Love and Jesus taught us that the way to God is through love, an emotion which is as intangible as the Holy Spirit.
Jesus taught us to love others like we love ourselves.

[Travelling fella]

Good question!

I guess it depends on how are you refering to christianity, if you are talking about christian religion then I guess is not mandatory to be a christian to have a moral code, because all religions follow a moral code that it's more or less the same with some minor variations.

if you don't believe in God, you still have a consciousness that guides you, whether you decided to listen or not, if you don't listen to her voice you will feel bad because you would have filled it with bad thoughts or actions.

where does this conciousness comes? a lot of religions speak of a christic consciousness it is a bit hard to explain what the christic consciousness is but i'll try my best.

a lot of religions speak of the holy trinity, the equivalent of it in Hinduism is Tat-Sat-Om or the Father, the Son and the holy spirit or cosmic vibration.

The father is the cosmic consciousness or God who lives in another plane of existance or dimension where nothing exists but him.

The son is the reflection of God's intelligence on the Cosmic Vibration of Om or Holy spirit, this intelligence is behind the laws of our universe both physical and metaphysical such as gravity or karma.

and Om or Holy spirit is the cosmic vibration or word who supports his creation, we as human beings created in the image of our father have this christ consciousness inside us, this is our higher self and it is from this source that our moral code comes from.

Jesus Christ or Bhagavan Krishna or "Christna" if you prefer, were called these way (Christs) because they were self realized beings, that means that they were completely in tune with christ concsiousness and their lower ego nature was completely under control of this christ conciousness.

so, at least imho if you are following your higher consciousness, thus having a moral code means you are a christian at least in this sense.

Love and Light

[Tricky D]

I roughly agree with most of Travelling fella's post except for this:

The father is the cosmic consciousness or God who lives in another plane of existance or dimension where nothing exists but him.

I just don't believe in other plane of existance.
I guess I'm too much of a realist to believe such a concept.
Thx for sharing Travelling fella.

[chielgirl]

Travelling fella, most of these predated Christ, did they not?

If so, it would be preferable if the true term Krshna, not Chrishna be used. It's offensive to christianize all concepts, many don't translate well at all.

[Travelling fella]

true, chielgirl, it wasn't my intention to offend anyone.

Respect is the basis, we all have different beliefs I don't think is wrong to express them if your intentions are good, if you did it trying to offend someone then it'd be wrong.

Respect!