If Adam and Eve were designed to live forever, wouldn't the Earth have overpopulated within a few generations?

Question

Some Christians believe that all death is caused by "original sin".

Answer 1

Over-population would be something God would have to deal with.
Do you think He could resolve that one?

Answer 2

Man's "punishment" for disobedience was death. I am sure God would have taken care of the world's population if that event hadn't happened.

It is interesting to note that based on population calculations, there is actually support for a young earth. So if you believe evolutionists, we should have overpopulated the earth by now.

POPULATION STATISTICS

One of the strongest arguments for a young Earth comes from the field of population kinetics. Without going into full detail here in the short space available, the argument from population statistics may be stated as follows. Using the formula

Pn = 2/(C-1) (Cn-x+1) (Cx - 1)

it is possible to compute the world population (Pn = world population after n generations; n = number of generations; x = life span in terms of generations; 2C = number of children per family). If evolutionary figures were entered into this formula, with man having lived on the Earth only one million years (some evolutionists suggest that man, in one form or another, has been on the Earth 2-3 million years), there would be an Earth population of 1 x 105000! That number is a 1 followed by 5,000 zeroes. But the Universe (at an estimated size of 20 billion light years in diameter) would hold only 1 x 10100 people. Using creationist figures, however, the current world population would be approximately 4.34 billion people. Evolutionary figures thus would imply an Earth population 104900 times greater than would fit into the entire Universe! The question is—which of the two figures is almost exactly on target, and which could not possibly be correct? [NOTE: This discussion is highly abbreviated. For additional documentation, see: Lammerts, 1971, pp. 198-205; Wysong, 1976, pp. 168-169; Morris and Morris, 1996, pp. 317-320.]

Answer 3

Not necessarily. The Earth was replenished from above and below by God's design. Had Adam and Eve not sinned, there'd still be an abundance enough for all. Read the story of how Jesus fed the 5,000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes! If He can sustain that many people for one day, think of what God could do in a PERFECT environment for all eternity!

Answer 4

The answer is a big fat NO. If humanity started with two people, a few generations later there couldn't be more than a few dozen people.
The earth could easily take care of a few generations from two people.
No comment on that "original sin" thing. I don't know what original sin is. Oh yes, I know what it's supposed to be, but I don't believe any part of it.

Answer 5

--FIRST OF all the divine mandate was to "FILL THE EARTH"--when you fill a glass do you run the water over or do you reach a comfortable level you can handle in moving the glass to your lips?

As far as filling the earth to be overpopulated in the few generations you mentioned, WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR STATS?

Up untill Moses the length of generations were much longer in duration, than the 80 + years he references the average life span would be today:

(Psalm 90:10) “10 In themselves the days of our years are seventy years; And if because of special mightiness they are eighty years,. . .”

-So if there was no danger of "overfilling" of the earth in the duration from Adam --Moses c.2500 yrs. why the panic?

--ILLUSTRATING the real room the earth has if humans stuck to the divine order can be seen in this breakdown of the earthly resurrection if in fact 20 billion people would be brought back to the earth & HOW real of area their would be for all of them:

*** it-2 pp. 792-793 Resurrection ***

Resurrection During 1,000 Years. A very liberal estimate of the number of persons that have ever lived on earth is 20 billion (20,000,000,000). Many students of the subject calculate that not nearly so many have lived. Not all of these, as it has been shown in the foregoing discussion, will receive a resurrection, but even assuming that they did, there would be no problem as to living space and food for them. The land surface of the earth at present is about 148,000,000 sq km (57,000,000 sq mi), or about 14,800,000,000 ha (36,500,000,000 acres). Even allowing half of that to be set aside for other uses, there would be more than a third of a hectare (almost 1 acre) for each person. As to earth’s potential food production, a third of a hectare will actually provide much more than enough food for one person, especially when, as God has demonstrated in the case of the nation of Israel, there is abundance of food as a result of God’s blessing.—1Ki 4:20; Eze 34:27.

On the question of the earth’s food-producing power, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization maintains that, with only moderate improvements in agricultural methods, in even the developing areas the earth could easily feed up to nine times the population that scientists have estimated for the year 2000.—Land, Food and People, Rome, 1984, pp. 16, 17.

--AND DO WE KNOW what he has in mind for the rest of the planets in our solar system?
--FOOLISH HUMANS think they can populate the other planets without God's preparation--THAT IS ABURD!
--Jehovah God & Christ Jesus can prepare any planet for habitation, IF THEY SO WISH!

--GIVING Jehovah God , all the benefit of doubt is surely wiser than being critical of his purpose for mankind as a continued human family , YES FOREVER!

--IF NOT ORIGINAL sin , THEN WHAT?
--WHY did Jesus have to serve as a ransomer to give back the opportunity for man to live forevever ON THE EARTH as the Bible clearly states:

(Psalm 37:11) “11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. .....29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth,
And they will reside forever upon it."

(Matthew 5:5) “5 “Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth.”

Answer 6

I could see that being a problem but god knows
also you have to consider that if there was not death there would be a lot more recourse's if man hadn't sinned they would of never destroyed the earth so there would be great recourse's.
And God knows our minds he knew we would sin even though it was our choice and if we had not sinned god would of resolved it somehow.

Answer 7

God commanded Adam and Eve to "Be fruitful and become many and FILL THE EARTH".

Not overfill.

No one can be 100% what would have happened but it is likely that once the earth had reached God's limit on what it means for the earth to be "full" then procreation would have stopped.

Answer 8

They were designed to live forever but they ate from the tree of the knowledge of god and evil. This brought sin into the world and sin is death to yourself. There was another tree in the garden that always gets overlooked. The tree of life. If they had eaten from that tree too then we would all have been in trouble because then we would all live forever in dying bodies.

Answer 9

Without death that would be just over 106,456,367,669 people on earth today. Are you asking if the earth could support that? There is easily enough area, but I don't know about the food supply.

Answer 10

Well, your whole answer for anything you question revolves around one thing...do you believe in the Word of God...cause if you do not..your question just sits and spins in a world of radical opinion....if you really want an answer....you already answered yourself.
We cursed ourselves, cause our desire to exercise our own will outweighed our desire the will of our Creator.
That is sin...that is why we do not live forever...but the bridge was made...He made the way.
All we have to do....is ...cross.

Answer 11

It couldn't have.

Adam and Eve were innocent, they lived their days just enjoying nature.

It wasn't until "the fall" that Adam and Eve became aware of their nakedness.

They didn't have sex, until after their sin...the "original sin" as you say which brought about their mortal death.

Because Adam and Even were in a state of innocence and immortality because of their faith and obedience to the Lord, it was taken away from them when they ate the apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

It wasn't after this event that Adam and Eve had their sons, Cain and Abel.
(Genesis 4:1)
"And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived..."

(this phrase, "Adam knew Eve his wife," means that they had intimate relations in which after she conceived, you won't find that phrase or any indication of it before "the fall" of Adam and Eve.)