Explain what different Christians believe about their responsibility for other people.

choose what they do about other people, if they choose to give to charity etc, fine but if not then they should not be thought of any less as it is their own right to choose. The title also suggests that if you are Christian then you are not being asked, you are being demanded to help others. This is wrong because people should have their freedom whether they are Christian or not. It is their time and their money so whether or not they give to charity, in the end it is their decision about what they do with their own possessions. The Christian teaching does not allow choice; it is quite clear about whether we should help people in that sense. The purpose of this essay is to show how the Christian teaching affects the way we treat other people. The Golden Rule in Matthew 22: 39-40 states that "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself which is saying that we should treat everyone as we would like to be treated. Everyone is our neighbour as we all have to live on the same earth so if we treat people with the respect and dignity they deserve then they will treat us with the same respect and dignity, which we gave them. Christians love everyone but might not like everyone. They try to treat all people the same as they help the poor to let them have the same advantages that other people have but not only help the poor and also help anyone how seeks help. People who are looked at as being outcasts such as the disabled elderly and sick are also part of this world and they may think of us as being the outcasts and not them. Every one must have someone else to look down on to make then feel better. Christians treat others as equals to them as everyone is equal so the disabled are in some places more able then the able people in other places so at no point is one person always able to be the best and most high. Thinking like this makes you realise the point that the Christian teaching is trying to make. Therefore we are responsible for everyone, the poor, sick, elderly, disabled, homeless and even people like addicts. It is essential to have the necessary requirements to stay alive. To help solve the problems of the third world, we must first understand them. For us it is very easy to take the necessities for granted. We are unable to realise that when we enter our homes (shelter), not many people in the world have that luxury. When we enter our kitchens we have a choice of a variety of foods when other people in the world have none at all. It is a fact that the world's resources and wealth is unequally distributed. The rich north has 85% of the world's wealth, yet the poor South has three quarters of the world's population. These developing countries in the South need more money to improve the lives of their people, because this inequality is resulting in major problems, for example; One fifth of developing countries' people suffer from hunger. This is not because they do not have enough food to grow, as there is enough food to feed the whole world, but that they are exporting most of their food, at cheap prices in order for them to support their families and pay off their debts.