The duty to feed the poor is given to the church, and every
Posted on: December 27, 2021 at 13:46:45 CT
MizzouTigerz
MU
Posts:
37095
Member For:
21.45 yrs
Level:
User
M.O.B. Votes:
0
individual in the church, not the goverment.
Government is to concern itself with providing border security, the safety of the people within the borders, and infrastructure.
Misallocation of church duties to the government involves the government in the work of the church.
He who has a generous eye will be blessed, For he gives of his bread to the poor.
He who despises his neighbor sins; But he who has mercy on the poor, happy is he.
He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord, And He will pay back what he has given.
Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard.
He who gives to the poor will not lack, But he who hides his eyes will have many curses.
She extends her hand to the poor,
Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.
Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”
But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.
and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.
Edited by MizzouTigerz at 13:48:01 on 12/27/21