Comments on: Animals dying — good; men dying — bad. http://semper.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/animals-dying-good-men-dying-bad/ Theologising, musing, setting the world right, wondering about lunch Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:51:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Luke http://semper.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/animals-dying-good-men-dying-bad/#comment-7 Luke Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:33:50 +0000 https://semper.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/animals-dying-good-men-dying-bad/#comment-7 Hehe, fair enough! Happy impending birthday - I'll deffinitely call at some point on wedesday. Hehe, fair enough! Happy impending birthday - I’ll deffinitely call at some point on wedesday.

]]> By: Semper http://semper.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/animals-dying-good-men-dying-bad/#comment-6 Semper Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:38:54 +0000 https://semper.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/animals-dying-good-men-dying-bad/#comment-6 The hardest questions are always the "what if" ones :-). We would certainly have filled the earth and multiplied! I think there would be some self-control. Fear of Mortality often makes us randy and also leads to having many children for "insurance". I am one of those believers who has no problem with responsible birth control too. Lastly, consider the vastness of creation. Would humanity be earthbound now if we were able to exercise our creativity with no death or tragedy to intervene, nor a culture fractured with language barriers. We are meant to inherit the heavens as well as the earth. The hardest questions are always the “what if” ones :-).

We would certainly have filled the earth and multiplied!

I think there would be some self-control. Fear of Mortality often makes us randy and also leads to having many children for “insurance”. I am one of those believers who has no problem with responsible birth control too.

Lastly, consider the vastness of creation. Would humanity be earthbound now if we were able to exercise our creativity with no death or tragedy to intervene, nor a culture fractured with language barriers.

We are meant to inherit the heavens as well as the earth.

]]> By: Luke http://semper.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/animals-dying-good-men-dying-bad/#comment-5 Luke Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:17:06 +0000 https://semper.wordpress.com/2006/08/23/animals-dying-good-men-dying-bad/#comment-5 So had Adam not sinned would the world not be severly over-populated right now? So had Adam not sinned would the world not be severly over-populated right now?

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