It might be worth questioning whether those words from God to Noah mean that our aim is to cover the surface of the Earth elbow-to-elbow with people. The implication of those words (particularly as you see the disobedience to them, and the results of that disobedience in Genesis 11) seems to me to be that mankind was to spread themselves across the face of the Earth - some living here, some there, some elsewhere, everywhere habitable. I really don't think God was giving a command to fill the Earth to capacity.

We certainly can, and did, in Genesis 11, in the sense that I noted above. Also in the sense that you're implying, it can be disobeyed. Many countries are having negative population growth - so with modern 'family planning' policies, and the globalist UN policies demanding access to murder of children in the womb for every woman, etc., we're very likely to see pockets of negative population growth for time to come. UN population people continually are claiming that the Earth is soon to be overpopulated (which is hogwash). I sincerely believe that natural limitations on the Earth's population will NOT be the reason its population is limited - rather, human selifshness and the idolatry of self will be.

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