Liberty Tree wrote:
Christians have no trouble for help to the needy. They have trouble with welfare to the able bodied who refuse to work or for those who receive benefits fraudulently. The Bible teaches that if a man will not work he should not eat That was one of the rules at the Jamestown Colony
Warning against Idleness2 Thess. 3: 6-15
6) Now we
command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you
keep away from any brother who is living in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
7) For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you,
8)
we did not eat any one’s bread without paying, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you. 9) It was not because we have not that right, but to give you in our conduct an example to imitate.
10)
For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat. 11) For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work.
12) Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living.
13) Brethren, do not be weary in well-doing.
14) If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that man, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.
15) Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
Some will say this scripture refers to Christians who don't want to work.
Anyone want to bet there's plenty of scriptures that make it plain this rule applies to us all?
Here's one for starters (God's Word is mathematically perfect!
):
Gen. 3: 17-19
17) And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it', cursed is the ground
because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
18) thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
19) In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Any more scriptures that that reinforce the truth that ultimately you have to work or starve?
How about examples in the animal kingdom? The universe and God's Word
are mathematically perfect.
We were the variable.
Emphasis mine.