For those who fellow a religion do you only help those in need because it says so in the bible?

no.. i help because it makes me feel good.. because i feel that they really need help and i am capable to help them.. religion has got nothing to do with it..

Most people behave in a way that benefits themselves, and this in turn benefits the community as well. We’ve also evolved to feel rewarded when we do favours for others; this in turn increases the chances that others will return favours.

Whether they believe it or not, I don't think most people behave like this because of the threat of eternal punishment.

This and other behaviours probably developed over millions of years of evolution by natural selection. It has survival value, and is observed in other species. Our behaviours are more complex than that of other species, and our communities are very complex too. We've developed behaviour patterns to live in community. When several behaviour patterns conflict in a given situation, our upbringing, experience, need to live as part of a community, and the satisfying chemical changes that evolved to happen in our brains when we do someone a favour, determine which to suppress; this is often done subconsciously, but can sometimes be conscious (which might be what we experience as conscience). And when this goes wrong, we have remedies as a species codified in laws, penalties and punishments.

Basic moral behaviour has been observed by the ancient Greeks, and has been known as the Golden Rule. It’s also found in the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, and most of us are familiar with the motto, credited to Jesus in the gospels, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”; this isn’t originally a religious idea, but an evolved behaviour pattern.

We don't get our morality from religion, although religions try to explain moral behaviour mythically by giving its origin to a deity or deities.

Sometimes I help someone because I've been in their shoes and someone helped (or didn't help) me. But sometime, yes, I only do it because the Bible says to. That's what Christians are supposed to do: Put God's wishes before their own.

No, Atheists can do that to, in fact they can do all kinds of nice things without the Bible, but it says that because we so often go against our conscience. For example, we might think things like "I don't have time to help them" or "I don't feel like loving my wife tonight" or "I'm too busy to talk to you" and God is saying, be self-sacrificing and do no matter how you feel.

Jesus says not to let your right hand know what your left is doing and to Iove your neighbour as yourself. Would you see yourself go hungry or be needy if you had money?Then neither should you do so for your neighbour

Not at all. I help people all the time...I am happy when they are happy.

You are not supposed to feel good.