I noble thought, but are you really helping others?
Generally, if they benefit, yeah, you're helping. Admittedly, yeah, the greater help is stemming the problem, but sometimes, like the below mentioned issue, it's impossible. Unless, of course, you're advocating abortion...
Feeding a caged bird keeps it alive, but it is still caged.
Says the man chained to stone age morality.
Are you helping people when you feed them, but what they really need is to accept Jesus Christ as Lord/Savior and commit to following the commandments/doctrines of the Bible?
And what about those that have, and are still impoverished? Believe it or not, not all poor people are druggieevilcommienaziatheists. Some legitimately need to hand to get back on their feet.
A woman having an illegitimate child is in most cases instant poverty and needs health care/welfare, but the problem was caused by the adultery that produced the child.
So you're either advocating abortion, or you're making an example of her by making her live in poverty to make an example of her. If you mean the latter, what did Jesus do to the adulteress? Did he join in the stoning? No, he intervened, and saved her.
Which is the best help, to provide the health care/welfare, or to prevent the adultery?
As preventing an action that has already occurred is impossible, yeah, welfare is the best option. And health care is ALWAYS a good thing. A system where you have to choose between your health and eating for the next month is horribly flawed, in my opinion.
Socialism/welfare may put a plate of food on a table or Socialism/health care may pay for a doctors office visit, but the problem of sin that in most cases caused the person to need food and health care has not been solved.
Whereas the absence of welfare causes a person to become homeless, and living on the streets isn't conducive to getting a job, which leads further into poverty...yeah, I can see how that's a good system. I guess the absence of health care at least makes sure she likely won't have to worry about it before illness or injury overtakes her. Good to see that Christ lives on in his followers.
If you give a person a fish, you feed them for a day; if you teach a person how to fish, you feed them forever.
But what you're advocating is dangling a fish in front of a starving person.
