And God said ..."go and multiply"...

It's a pity that he did not also provide the means to support them all. The logical end result of such a commandment is the mass starvation and consequent suffering on many parts of the world today. I see very little evidence of a compassionate god in Somalia at the present time.

First of all i m sorry to anybody if i hurt their religious sentiments or if i am rude to anybody. What i believe is that God said "to the first people" to go and multiply. It was because there were just two of them. And today there are BILLIONS !! People should accept this fact and multiplying just because God told Adam and Eve to do so is not wise. Everyone has a right to multiply and no one can take it away from them but it is up to us,the people who live on this planet earth(the only discovered place where life exists) to make their choice. Creating an army of children is definitely not carrying out the will of god!! The Mother Earth is about to give in...it won't be able to sustain the load of exponentially increasing population in the near future.

That book was written a long, long time ago. Even if it is a true book, which is something I don't believe anyway, but even if it were, times have changed and people need to get real. Overpopulation is a growing problem.

God told the first human couple he created to "go and multiply" and fill the earth. He want his human children to populate the earth that he created for them. That statement from God is as old as the old testament of bible itself in the first chapter of Genesis. By it is then where the earth is liveless, but have plenty. God intention is very clear for the first people. But the church shouldn't have taken it literately in this period of time (2011) where world population is already populated with so many people and after many decades of population explosion where resources are depleting quickly worldwide.

I think the Bible cannot be taken literally or out of context. It cannot be done with any boook ever. There is a time when multiplying a species is right, there is another time when it´s wrong. All animals that are in danger should multiply and we, as concious beings, should help instead of hinder it. But we are selfishly using up all our planet and there will come a time when instead og being able to multiply ourselves, we will all die of famine

Yes the statement of God "Go and multiply" is very true and I agree with that but we had to consider also the timeline when did he was mentioned that statement, besides it only applicable to Adam and Eve why do I say so? Because that time there are the only persons existed in this earth so God commanded them to multiply. Is it applicable today where population explosion is uncontrollable? I think it's not because according to one book of Paul says that "we had to control" implying that we had to control the population growth here in our country. Almost majority of Christian denomination here in the Philippines only agrees with the RH bill and only Catholics are only against this because the priest doesn't fully understand the word of God about RH bill. God tells us to control and it's biblical. The only reason I see why Catholic church against this because they are making profits from the innocent babies when they baptize they will ask for fees which even against the bible.

When God said "Go and multiply and replenish the earth" He said it first to Adam and Eve and the second time he said it to Noah and his family after the flood. The idea was exactly as He said "Replenish the earth." In other words, fill the earth with human beings. We have now done that.

Well, I feel that if a family is Financially stable and ready to bring a child or children onto the Earth than go for it. The problem sometimes is there are people who cannot really afford it and then the children have to suffer, or those who should not be parents for Health reasons, or just would not make good parents, so I have always wondered what is the Best in these cases for sure?

i think this statement was literally interpreted. We actually forgeting that we also need to multiply the word of God. His teachings and His Love. Church must act something especially the population which are growing everyday. They must sometimes listen outside the Church coz the reality are in there.

Cathoilc opposes to the RH bill because there are some verse in the bible they don't consider or pay attention. According to bible again God gave us free will so it's our choice if we will be slave of the Catholics teachings forever.

I don't think the world would and could handle every body having as many kids as they could possibly have, God create us with a survival nature and we know what we can't handle. I have seen people with 6 kids and they can;t even feed them is that the purpose of God words? no body could say they know exactly what to do, but we all know our paycheck, small or big and know what we can afford or not. i go to church and read the Lord words, but i try to think and apply them in the time we living now, just careful and not many kids that we cant feed or send to school or give love and attention.

i believe in GOD all the time. but nowadays population is growing faster. people have to be practical and have family planning. no one wants their children to suffer. just think that if you have many children, you got now work, you cant give then the right food, shelter, clothing and education. poor kids will grow ignorant. i think you can have many kids as you want considering you can sustain and give their needs and a little wants.

I think there's nothing wrong in family planning, we are already over populated,available jobs are not enough, there's so many people that are starving because they don't have decent job,no own house, and can't even bring their children to right education. so I think its just right to control the population so that this kind of problem wont get worst.

I think the go forth and multiply is only meant for Adam and Eve since they were the only human beings then. God knows that we are already exhausting our resources and if this scarcity continues, I think that phrase will no longer be applicable since it will be the extinction of the human race by then. We should really act now to prevent the population growth, if this continues, our future will surely be dim.

What the church fails to realize is that he's been saying "STOP ...STOP!" for a few generations now. They can't seem to update with the times. If it were up to them the world would still be flat & the center of the universe.

Another novel dogma invented by the Roman Church all the best urban

What makes you think when God said that it only meant to multiply people. It could be love, compassion, nature, animals, greenery the works. God surely knows better than that. How could that be the case when God knows that the 'infrastructure' is enough for just that many and not more.

God or Bible what ever religious books it might be ... they do give some commandments also with which we should have our own self decision to be made.God might had said but nowadays to many is not possible,as we can say this from the heart ,one or tow kids enough for the days of present in the world.Population can cause many problems if we observe what god said "go and multiply" , it can not be said that god give the child so the food is also given by god,such things we can not accept these days.

Hi thetis! It is practical if only a married couple are able and afford to do so. If they can't give a proper education to raised the kid nor they are able to give the kids needs then I think they should consider and think more than twice to have more children. What the trend nowadays are rich people with less children/family planning while the poor tend to have more children that their ability to raise and support them. For me the rich should have more children than the poor.t does not mean that the poor can't have many children but it should based n the affordability.(^^)

hi,theis,i just couln't understand the sentence" go and multiply". can you explain that to me? thank you.