If sex leads to overpopulation would God have originally expected humans to only have sex occasional

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Go to you tube and look up the grand solar minimum channel. The sun has more to do with our climate than anything man can do! Last year teh sun was w/o sunspots for 76% of the year!

This year so far we are at 77% Look up the Dalton minimum, The Maunder minimum and th eothers in between. We are in what they named the Eddie Grand solar minimum. The sun has an 11 year circle where it goes from solar maxima to solar minima and about every 200-250 years we experience a grand solar minimum. We are in that now! We have been coming off a solar maximum period (the warming trend) and now entering not just a solar minima, but a grand solar minimum.

No, our planet is still warming. The warming isn’t due to the sun, it is due to us.

As for the flood? The geological evidence speaks against you!

Evidence from peer reviewed journals please.
 
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Everything is a complex system and there are various connections.

Overpopulation is practically impossible, because whenever there will be too many people for few resources, there will be wars, hunger, diseases, psychiatric conditions like depression and other reductive events to make population smaller again.
 
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Do you feel as Christian that excess wealth is something that The Bible speaks for or against ?

A good question. Maybe we can find the answer in the Proverbs.

Proverbs 13:22
"A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just."
 
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I have been reading a lot about overpopulation lately and how it has and is contributing to a lot of our problems such as climate change, poverty, pollution and the depletion of the earth's natural resources. So it got me thinking how could we have avoided this situation. The obvious answer is to not produce so many people. But despite contraception, we have still overpopulated. So the question is did God intend for us to only have sex occasionally to avoid overpopulating the earth or is this inevitable.
I don't think overpopulation is really a problem anymore...

 
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A good question. Maybe we can find the answer in the Proverbs.

Proverbs 13:22
"A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just."

1 Timothy 6:10

Matthew 6:19-21

 
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1 Timothy 6:10

Matthew 6:19-21
Neither scripture is a rebuttal of the proverb.

Recall that Jesus wore pretty expensive clothing. Would you have him wearing sackcloth (burlap)?
 
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I have been reading a lot about overpopulation lately and how it has and is contributing to a lot of our problems such as climate change, poverty, pollution and the depletion of the earth's natural resources. So it got me thinking how could we have avoided this situation. The obvious answer is to not produce so many people. But despite contraception, we have still overpopulated. So the question is did God intend for us to only have sex occasionally to avoid overpopulating the earth or is this inevitable.

I haven't read through all the replies so I apologise if I'm repeating someone.

The whole of the earths population could live in the area of Paris if we built our cities correctly. That is if we built upwards. We could share the land around these skyscrapers for parks, farming, industry etc. But we haven't.

So as the current world sits, we don't need more people, we need more wisdom.

On a side note, if every couple had two kids the population stays constant.
 
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391835"]The whole of the earths population could live in the area of Paris if we built our cities correctly. That is if we built upwards. We could share the land around these skyscrapers for parks, farming, industry etc. But we haven't.[/QUOTE]

We could name this city... Sardinia.

On a side note, if every couple had two kids the population stays constant.

Yeah, in a perpetual state of overpopulation. :eek:
 
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Yeah, in a perpetual state of overpopulation. :eek:

You do know that some of those kids would die before child bearing age, some would die after just getting one child and some would not get children at all.

Think the reproduction rate to keep the population numbers at present levels for a woman is now around 2.1 children.

So average of below that and you have declining population. Like Japan with fertility rate of 1.4

One of the reasons they are so keen on robotics to increase their productivity.
 
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Neither scripture is a rebuttal of the proverb.

Recall that Jesus wore pretty expensive clothing. Would you have him wearing sackcloth (burlap)?

Just took the first two google threw at me.

Are you seriously saying because Jesus wore “pretty expensive clothing” his message across the New Testament comes more on the side of pursuing wealth rather than money and property being more often hinderance to spiritual growth and finding God and Heaven ?
 
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Seems like more of a food distribution problem than an overpopulation problem. I am married and have certain social obligations to others so I am basically a consumer like most everyone else. But I am convinced that if I was alone and was able to keep gas in my car, I could end my grocery bills. Maybe a few bucks a month for salt or seasoning but that's all. It would require some conniving, but nothing illegal. There's a lot that goes to waste in forest and field which I am not even counting here.
 
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The whole of the earths population could live in the area of Paris if we built our cities correctly. That is if we built upwards. We could share the land around these skyscrapers for parks, farming, industry etc. But we haven't.

We could name this city... Sardinia.



Yeah, in a perpetual state of overpopulation. :eek:

Heh Sardinia, nice. It was explained this way by a lecturer at Newcastle university to my wife who was studying architecture at the time. He explained how the living quarters would be absolutely fine. But obviously the point is not for us all to live in one location. The point is we have HEAPS more room on this planet for even more people to live comfortably. Space is not the problem.

As for food. I don't feel as confident but I was of the understanding that there is plenty. It's just there's no financial incentive to share it around.
 
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I have been reading a lot about overpopulation lately and how it has and is contributing to a lot of our problems such as climate change, poverty, pollution and the depletion of the earth's natural resources. So it got me thinking how could we have avoided this situation.

You could avoid the false stories instead. Poverty and poor health and hunger in the world in in steady decline.

Lets take a small island with 3 people on it.

Which person will build a house, which one will become a surgeon, and which one will build a solar panel for the three of them?

None of the three will ever gain those useful skills. All three will sleep on the ground under branches and die somewhat young.

Does this illustrate the benefits of a large society? It takes a society to support specialized training so a surgeon can help 1000's of others live better lives. The same for the building contractor and for the power provider.
 
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Do you feel as Christian that excess wealth is something that The Bible speaks for or against ?

I know you did not ask me this question but I don't think the Bible speaks for or against earning excess wealth. What it does is instruct one on how to use that excess wealth to glorify God by helping others that are in need. It also warns one not to trust in the things of this world but only to trust in God.
 
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Would it have been better if our age of puberty were in our twenties instead of our teens?

And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. - Genesis 5:32

500 years until fatherhood. I wonder what the ideal age of fatherhood would be. I would say in the 50's to give a man and a woman time to explore careers and to gain wisdom.
 
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As to the earth being overpopulated, there have been many saying that for hundreds of years. Malthus, (1798) for instance said we would not have enough resources to continue. He was wrong as we have more food than ever. His theory failure was because he did not account for the higher productivity of land. Of course some starve, but it is a distribution problem, not a food shortage.

As to having children, this scripture applies directly to part of your question. More children equal more blessings. As to having sex see the second scripture below. If a spouse denies sex except for spending time with the Lord, they may be defrauding their partner.
Psalm 127:3-5 (Darby)
3 Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the fruit of the womb a reward. 4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
5 Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate.

1 Corinthians 7:4-5 (KJV)
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
 
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The Earth has plenty of resources for so many people, but I do wonder if we get tired of seeing nothing but people everywhere we look. I'm thankful for the sparrow that ventures into this concrete wasteland, that I may have some other creature than a human to observe.
 
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