I don’t know where else to put this comment so I put it here because this is closest to my view.
After reading these comments as a committed church-going Christian who also happens to donate to EA charities (like you implied because Jesus commanded to help the poor materially and not just spiritually, so it’s more rule based) it feels funny that non-Christians—at least I think the commenters here are non-Christians—so often think they know what Christianity means better than people who actually believe the tenets of Christianity.
My personal opinion about Jesus and God when it comes to this subject is that individuals Christians aren’t supposed to go to heroic lengths to figure out and calculate how to utilitarianly maximize the amount of quality adjusted life years in Heaven and minimize the same when it comes to Hell, but that it all depends on God who is already omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipotent so individual Christians don’t have to be, and Christians just follow Jesus and His literal commandments as best they can.
From my understanding, biblical morality is generally deontological, not utilitarian.
I don’t know where else to put this comment so I put it here because this is closest to my view.
After reading these comments as a committed church-going Christian who also happens to donate to EA charities (like you implied because Jesus commanded to help the poor materially and not just spiritually, so it’s more rule based) it feels funny that non-Christians—at least I think the commenters here are non-Christians—so often think they know what Christianity means better than people who actually believe the tenets of Christianity.
My personal opinion about Jesus and God when it comes to this subject is that individuals Christians aren’t supposed to go to heroic lengths to figure out and calculate how to utilitarianly maximize the amount of quality adjusted life years in Heaven and minimize the same when it comes to Hell, but that it all depends on God who is already omniscient, omnibenevolent and omnipotent so individual Christians don’t have to be, and Christians just follow Jesus and His literal commandments as best they can.