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Overpopulation?

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it's because God wants it that way.

Not necessarily wants it, but let's it, (just so I'm clear. Are you actually telling me God doesn't let things happen or even want/make things happen?

Or to be more specific, are you telling me this exact scenario never ever happens?

You have said that God can do something about "X" if God chooses to, but that if "X" continues to be a problem, it's because God wants it that way.

To be honest, what your saying seems a little out there to me. You are stating it is a matter of fact, my understanding of Gods power is off. That's a tough one to swallow when I don't think too many of us can claim to know the full extent of what's going on with God, yet you seem to at least know I'm wrong. And don't get me wrong, me personally being wrong is not the issue here, it's what you might think of anyone's thoughts or understanding of God. As far as I know I'm exactly right as in the way God at least sometimes deals with things and sure, he has ways that are high above any of us as well. Also, as the term "thing" is defined, God most certainly can be a thing.

We are made in Gods image, I understand me, I understand you or people in general, so I naturally have some understanding of God and what and how he does things as we all should. There are examples all through the Bible. I understand Jesus, what his powers were, when how and why he used them, he told us all that, and if we have seen the Son, we have seen the Father, Jesus is that much like his Dad, so how can I not have some idea of how God acts? But it seems to me you are trying to make some mystery here pertaining to God that those of us without a higher knowledge don't understand.

If I may ask , did you come to these conclusions completely on your own? or was it due to input from a book or whatever?
 
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There is a generally known phenomenon that as population get wealthier and better education, they have fewer children. In Europe this is already widely seen. Population growth there is mostly due to immigration. So the solution to global overpopulation is prosperity and education.

If you're claiming that prosperity and education are answers to overpopulation, which you admittedly indicate lowers a population, shouldn't you see that this will ultimately destroy these countries? You have to have a certain birth rate. Otherwise, your culture dies out within 3-5 generations, I'd argue. Maybe more or less, depending on how low the birth rate is.

Immigration in modern times destroys countries and is a slow genocide against people of European descent. How can it help a country to have their population completely replaced with faster-breeding immigrants?
 
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