To show your worth... to god and to follow his will. That should of been common sense in the context in which I was speaking.
Again, you make my point for me do you not?
"Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven."
If you take that as true, in what way could government welfare be of god, when it is the most visible form of "charity" there is?
If the point was to simply have nobody be poor. God would have created a system where nobody was poor. Rather then have a system made by man that creates poor people.
Nor does the fact that dertiministic christians exist disprove anything, since again... that would just make EVERYTHING god's will, making this a pointless thread to start with.
