I can't answer those questions, no one really should think they could, even one who follows christianity.
However, there is one serious problem with this line of questions, you must first define what you consider "help". There is the line "give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime". I believe in that myself, when I was in the "system" (that's what we called it in the shelters) they always gave us plenty of food, shelter, medical care, etc. but all the organizations that were geared toward actually helping us with things like jobs, education, etc. lost funding so they could give us more free shit. It sucks when you want to get somewhere and every time you ask for something that actually helps they look at you like you're insane. All I needed was a computer, that was it, a simple up to date computer. I had to save up my meager cash hiding it well (living in a shelter nothing is safe) and wasn't allowed to save it in the bank or I would lose my income. Once I got a laptop, I was able to work again.
The problem with that saying is that today, in order to fish, you have to have a permit and you have a limit. Most of the lakes are stocked and they are limited and if you want to fish in the ocean, you need a different permit. Ditto for hunting, plus there are seasons, what are they suppose to eat the rest of the seasons?
Really, our society is designed to punish the poor, not to lift the up. Until we can fix that flaw, we need welfare. Plus, how about we do away with welfare for the rich and corporations? Thanks to tax incentives and loop holes there are rich people and corporations who are paying no taxes whatsoever. And corporations who get benefits in return for promises they never keep should be shut down and taken over by the state, and I'm including Intel here who many years ago got more than $40,000,000 in tax incentives to build a plant in Dupont that was suppose to provide 3000 jobs which never, ever materialized. I worked it out at the time and for that amount of money they could have paid everyone living in dupont mw for 3 years for doing NOTHING. Think of what could have been accomplished with that money if they'd given it to people to start businesses.
