The Deontological Jesus

There is no question that Jesus was a deontologist.   As an individual who had achieved the Christ consciousness he acted and spoke through that consciousness.  The rightness or wrongness of any action is always filtered through the lens of the action itself as applied to a set of ethical duties under a deontological view.  The teleological view by contrast simply  focuses on the individual and the consequences of the actions (i.e. do the ends justify the means?)

An individual in the Christ consciousness sees others through pure compassion, always reaching out to them through an assumption of their unfoldment and evolution as a soul.  Actions and beliefs that bring about an evolutionary progress are encouraged and the opposite discouraged.  It is conformity to the set of laws of the Christ, rather than the consequences of the actions themselves that set the deontologist apart from the teleologist.

And so it is.