The Effects of Overpopulation
The increase in the world population has great meaning for both
humans and God. In early days, God encouraged humans to reproduce (Old
Testament Bible, Book of Genesis 1:28).
World overpopulation was the primary reason for God to equip humans
with the knowledge necessary to develop scientific technology, which
subsequently served daily life. In reality, all good and bad things have
their limitations, and overpopulation is no exception. In ancient
times, there were less humans on Earth—thus, God encouraged man to
reproduce to increase the population. But if the population increases
without control, in the long term this will bring about unexpected
disadvantages.
For example: the world, in the time of 2000 years ago, is compared to
a construction site that were seriously in short of laborers, which
need to have lots of human sources in order to maintain progress. But if
continuing to recruit more workers as before (overpopulation), this
could cause the construction site to go bankrupt.
Recently, there has been no group or scientist who has studied to
predict how many people can live on Earth sustainably. We do not know
when God will decide to enact the final judgment—maybe in 500 years, or
5000 years, or more. It cannot happen soon though. So if humans continue
to reproduce at their current rate, at the end of 22nd century the
world population will be approximately 20 billion people, and imagine
how many people there will be in the 30th century!
Though we can’t predict the exact day of the final judgment, we can
still guess what will happen on this day. The more crowded the world
population is, the less man can be released by God. The more man exists,
the higher the standard of selection will be. How many people God will
release in the future is not known for sure. After release, humans will
be immortal and enjoy heavenly lives consisting of many factors, and
space will be the most important.
If humans live in a tiny city, in crowded high rise apartments and
with a high density population, these conditions are not conducive to a
perfect life. Humans need to live with nature. Beautiful sights and
romantic rivers are part of an enjoyable life. Therefore, an overcrowded
world population will not meet these needs.
In the future, if humanity maintains its current population growth,
maybe God will adjust and cut the supply of new souls for humans. He
will adjust by making people infertile or spreading epidemic diseases
such as HIV as a warning against the abuse of sex. Later, there may
appear many kinds of viruses, much more horrific than HIV, which will be
brought to Earth by angels from outer space. Also, God could bring
about disasters and other deadly things to balance the world population.
Therefore, from now on, we must limit the growth of our population.
Otherwise, we will have many troubles in sustaining life for humankind,
and may harm ourselves through many unexpected events.
Each of us has to die, but there is no forever death. All souls are
reincarnated continuously, until the final judgment day when they will
enjoy perfect and immortal life. Therefore, we should not try to
reproduce, as this can be harmful for us.
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