Questions & Answers - Good News Staff - February 1974

Good News Staff

QUESTION: "You mentioned the problem of the population explosion. Didn't God command Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply? These two positions seem irreconcilable." ANSWER: God did command Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1 :28). However, that command in no way obviated the need for intelligent planning and birth control. The Bible does not condemn family planning. By focusing attention on the population explosion, we mean to get across the seriousness of the overpopulation dilemma - and resulting famine - facing mankind. However, we are not necessarily espousing human solutions that others may advance. Rather, we mean to show that man cannot effectively solve the problem as long as he is largely motivated by selfishness, greed and vanity. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library