Some Religious people don't get it but Charlie Does.

Charity

Apostle Paul: ".Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, ...  I am nothing. ... it profiteth me nothing.Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away."

Charity does not require a recompense, that's what "seeketh not her own" means. It is not conditional. It does not depend on compulsion, even compulsion to do voluntary good acts. Whatever that is, it is not charity and it shall pass away for it is not eternal.

In answer to Joseph's plea, "Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee forever and ever."

Charity does not compel, it may bring a spirit of loving giving in those that experience it but it is never conditioned on the acts of the receivers as this bill is. Anyone who says "I will be charitable to you if you are charitable to others" does not have the slightest notion of charity.

There is a critical difference between "I'll feed you if you work for my without pay" and "you are so kind to feed me, what can I do in return?" Self-sufficiency is a virtue if it develops from one's own character. Compensation that depends on the labor of the receiver is contract labor at best, slavery at worst. It is the fundamental economic relationship of free-market capitalism. That relationship is never approved in scripture, it is a worldly condition which must be suffered, not an eternal condition to be sought by the righteous. I assert that those that subscribe to this idea that charitable assistance requires the labor of the assisted, subscribe to the gospel of capital, not the gospel of Christ.


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