Jesus’ ethics are, without a doubt, based on selfishness. He encourages certain actions by promoting reward, blessing. wealth, and high office.
As Nietzsche paraphrases Jesus, “He who humbles himself wants exaltation.”
But Jesus makes it clear that he is not working toward success now, but in the future. And those he selects for all this sordid gain are those who are the poor, humble, sacrificial and merciful. So these that Jesus receives to be great in God’s kingdom are trained to be the kind of leaders and wealthy people the poor had always wished for. The kind that would rule with an eye to the needy—the kind of ruler the world has never had. So Jesus trains unselfishness through selfish motives.
Crazy like a fox, our anti-Machiavellian.
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