Bible question: Teaching a man to fish...

RAMOSS said:

There are a number of reasons to doubt the story about Paul being a student of Gamaliel. For one, none of his writings shows any familiarity to the school of Jewish thought that Gamaliel. The ebionites allegedly told a story about him being a convert, in an attempt to woo a daughter of a high priest, and became better to Judaism and circumcision in particular when she rejected him (as told by Epiphanius,Panarion, 30.16.6-9). Of course, that was late 4th century, so who knows what kind of corruption would have crept into the stories. That would explain Paul/Sauls lack of knowledge, and not having an attitude that was most consistant with a 1st century Jewish person though.

I also failed to see where Paul was called a 'traitor' in your link. Where was he called a traitor??

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radcen said:

(Paraphrased) "You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day or you can teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime."

I have always interpreted this to mean that you shouldn't enable a person to be lazy. Not that helping and charity doesn't have its place, it most certainly does, just don't encourage laziness.

I also just learned that this specific saying is not in the Bible, but is a Chinese proverb. (I did not know that.)

Anyway, the question: Is there some other passage in the Bible that conveys the same sentiment as the fish proverb? Something that doesn't discount helping those in need, but at the same time not enabling the lazy?

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