The NXR Podcast - December 17, 2022


QUESTIONS - What Would The Current Population Be If Adam Never Sinned & No One Ever Died?

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What would the world be like if there was never death due to sin? What would the current world population be if sin never entered the world? This is a question that has been on the minds of many Christians since the early days of creation and the creation of the Garden of Eden, but what would it be like in a world without sin? In this episode, Pastor Ken tackles this question and explains why God would not have created the world as it is today.

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00:00:00 Hey guys, real quick before we get started I have a small request. If you've been blessed by our
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00:00:14 gets out to as many people as possible. Thanks. What would the current world population be if
00:00:23 there was never death due to sin? Fantastic question, all right? And so this is, you know,
00:00:27 some people push back on this and say, you know, they'll say, well, it's what I was talking about
00:00:34 earlier, right? So it's theology, anthropology, all those kind of things, but let's just work
00:00:39 with theology for a second. God is not Klaus Schwab, right? God is not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
00:00:48 who has no power, you know, but whatever, you know, he's just, you know, somebody who takes
00:00:52 pictures and does social media. What I'm trying to say is God is not trying to somehow organize
00:01:04 the end of the world. God is not cruel. God doesn't hate humanity. God looked at creation,
00:01:12 even though it's been fallen under the curse of sin, God said it is good. And God is in the
00:01:16 business of restoring creation and saving humanity through jesus christ okay so all that being said
00:01:22 god would not create man ever even before sin entered the world and had it never entered the
00:01:29 world like your question god would not have created a scenario with the creation that he says is good
00:01:35 and and man adam and eve which he said is very good on the sixth day god would not have created
00:01:43 these things which he loved. God has compassion on all he has made, the Psalms say. God would
00:01:47 not have created these things which he declared are good and that he loves and has compassion on
00:01:51 and then engineered them in such a way and
00:01:55 explicitly commanded them in such a way that they would lend towards their own
00:01:58 implosion, demise,
00:02:02 self-destruction. And then God's sitting back there, you know, in the
00:02:06 global forum laughing, you know, maniacally,
00:02:10 ah, ah, ah, ah, I told them to be fruitful and multiply. Little do they know, I baked into the
00:02:15 cosmic, you know, creation, the physical world order that I made. I baked into the equation a
00:02:20 very limited amount of resources, and once they multiply to a certain point, they'll then, you
00:02:26 know, be plagued with poverty and sickness, and people will starve, and mass diseases will spread,
00:02:31 and this and that. It's just not the nature of God. So we can't believe that, right? We're
00:02:37 Christians. That is distinctly not Christian. So therefore, we have to believe that what God said 1.00
00:02:44 was good and what God loves, his creation and man, had sin never entered the world, and God
00:02:51 commanding them to be fruitful and multiply and to fill the world, that that wouldn't have lent
00:02:56 towards destruction. But if anything, the results of that, the fruit of man being fruitful and
00:03:03 multiplying and filling the earth would have been strictly positive. Now, that doesn't mean there
00:03:07 wouldn't be challenges to figure out. Now, sin, right, because we're talking about a hypothetical
00:03:11 situation where sin didn't enter the world, but there would still be challenges, right? So some
00:03:15 people, they think, you know, well, government, you know, government only, civil government only
00:03:18 exists because sin entered the world. Well, I disagree. If sin never entered the world, you'd
00:03:22 still have to decide which side of the road to drive on, the left or the right. Somebody would
00:03:28 have to make that rule, that determination. And then that would have to be a rule that everyone
00:03:34 is followed, that everybody follows for order, right? God's law doesn't just deal with sin,
00:03:41 but it also deals with order. And so even with a sinless world, there would still need to be,
00:03:47 there are certain things that would still need to be determined. Now, civil government would be,
00:03:52 the state would be a lot smaller. It should be a lot smaller even now with a sinful world,
00:03:56 but it would have been incredibly small. You wouldn't have some bloated, with just millions
00:04:03 of state employees doing a bad job at everything, but it'd be a small state, but there'd still be a 0.96
00:04:09 civil state. And I believe that if Adam and Eve had been fruitful and multiplied, Adam had an
00:04:15 eschaton. Some of you have heard me talk about this before. He had an eschatology before sin
00:04:20 ever entered the world. I believe that Adam was on probation, okay? So this is what a lot of the
00:04:24 reformed Puritan type thinkers, you know, would say about the creational covenant or the covenant
00:04:30 of life that we often refer to as a covenant of works that God established with Adam in the garden
00:04:35 before the fall. Remember, Adam was made in the wilderness, okay, and then placed by God in the
00:04:40 garden. And you might say wilderness, well, but this is before sin entered the world, so how could
00:04:46 there be a wilderness, you know, because thorns and thistles were, you know, the ground being
00:04:51 cursed, that's a result of Adam's sin. Because Adam is federal head, not just of his wife and
00:04:56 all their posterity, but Adam is not just federal head representative of humanity, but representative
00:05:01 of the earthly cosmos, the created physical world. Meaning that when Adam sins, it's not just that he
00:05:07 and his wife and all their children are cursed, but cursed is the ground because of you, Adam.
00:05:12 He represented all physical earthly creation. All right, so how could Adam be made in the wilderness
00:05:17 before sin entered the world, because isn't the wilderness a kind of ground cursing
00:05:22 fruit or result of Adam sinning? And I would say, no, there's a difference between thorns and
00:05:29 thistles, the world being cursed versus the world still needing to be put in order and developed.
00:05:34 And that's not to say that God is not a God of order. He looked at the world and he said it was
00:05:38 good. So it was without sin, but there was still much to do. There was still much to do. So there's
00:05:44 a garden. There's Adam and Eve. Adam's called to work and keep the ground, work and keep.
00:05:49 In working, so keep, I think, is, you know, defense, protect, right? And Adam failed in that.
00:05:54 The serpent shouldn't have been able to get into the garden, certainly not slither up to
00:05:58 his wife and start, you know, lying about God. So Adam failed in that. But keeping, I think,
00:06:04 is protecting. Working, though, is cultivating the ground, working as a gardener in the garden.
00:06:10 that's agriculture and all those kinds of things, but not just
00:06:13 cultivating, but I think that inherent in working is also
00:06:17 expanding, developing, increasing. That as Adam worked and kept,
00:06:22 guarded the garden, but also worked the garden, he would be expanding the garden.
00:06:26 It would be increasing and multiplying. So it's not just that
00:06:30 Adam and Eve were called to be fruitful and multiply in terms of making more people,
00:06:34 multiplying people. I think they were also called to multiply the garden.
00:06:37 and I think that Adam's eschaton was the garden
00:06:41 he would expand the garden, he and his sons
00:06:45 they would work together over multiple generations
00:06:48 and they would expand the garden over the whole face of the earth
00:06:52 where there would be no void empty places left, there would be no wilderness
00:06:55 like the place where he was created and then placed in the garden
00:06:58 but eventually the whole earth would be covered by the garden
00:07:02 just as the whole earth in our eschatology
00:07:06 this post-millennial glorious hope, the whole earth will be covered with the knowledge of the
00:07:12 glory of God as the waters cover the sea. Well, I think Adam was going to do that with two things,
00:07:17 with the garden and with descendants, the garden and people. Expand the garden, multiply the garden,
00:07:23 multiply people. So that you have, the garden was the sanctuary, it was the church,
00:07:28 and that eventually the whole earth would be encompassed in this sanctuary, and not just a
00:07:34 big sanctuary, but only a couple people, right? So you need both, multiply garden, multiply people,
00:07:39 but also worshipers, image bearers of the living God, to fill this now global, worldwide garden,
00:07:46 to sing the praises of God. And not to sing, but to live them out in everything that they do,
00:07:52 in every area and realm of life. So all that being said, if sin had never entered the world
00:07:57 at this point, right? So you wouldn't have all the, I mean, think of all the deaths that we've had
00:08:01 in infancy until very recent and, you know, modern, recent human history. And then, and not
00:08:08 just the deaths in infancy, but of course all deaths, right? You'd have all the people who ever
00:08:12 had lived, but it'd be exponential, right? So right now we have like 8 billion people in the
00:08:18 world is the latest, like coming up on 8 billion or just hit it. And then you got all the people
00:08:23 since the beginning of the world. And I would date the, you know, I'm not a heretic, so I'm a
00:08:27 literal six-day, 24-hour period day creationists, young earth. But let's say anywhere from six to
00:08:33 10,000 years. There is, I think, some reasonable debate. But six to 10,000 years of human history
00:08:39 and the creation of the world. Eight billion now. Everybody who ever had lived, if they had lived,
00:08:48 or were still alive, and there was no sickness and there was no death, I think that that would
00:08:52 give us about another eight billion. I haven't looked recently, but I've seen some studies that
00:08:56 say we have more people alive on the planet today than have ever lived, you know, or comparable.
00:09:00 So let's just say 8 billion plus 8 billion, right? So that's 16 billion. But then you also have to
00:09:06 talk about the fact that people would be continuing, right? Women would be able to continue 0.99
00:09:11 to get pregnant, to be fertile for, I would assume indefinitely. So having multiple generations of 0.99
00:09:20 children from the same mother, right? And then all the children who have died in our world that
00:09:25 would have lived, that died in infancy, that would have produced. And then also you're talking about
00:09:30 sin not entering the world and how that affects how many children people want to have and people's
00:09:34 view of children and seeing them as a burden. Or they actually can't care for children because
00:09:39 they're completely impoverished in North Korea, which again is a result of sin. So you're talking 0.89
00:09:44 about a world where there's no poverty and everybody has a right view of children and
00:09:51 everybody is no sin. So they're living in obedience to God in the commandment to be fruitful and
00:09:56 multiply. And there's no stop on the clock of a woman's fertility. So you don't just have 8 0.99
00:10:05 billion plus 8 billion, but all the exponential factors that I've just... 60 billion. That's the
00:10:11 minimum threshold. I'd put it at exponentially. 100 billion would be small, probably 100 billion
00:10:18 to a trillion. That's my answer. Pull the question up one more time. A hundred billion to a trillion
00:10:24 is what I'm going to say. Yeah. And right now you can fit the whole world in the state of Texas
00:10:29 comfortably. And so, you know, eight billion. And so if we had a hundred million, I believe that we
00:10:35 could all fit on earth. And here's a couple of other things just to add that. And even a trillion,
00:10:42 I think we could do that on earth. But you're also talking, you're not just talking about more
00:10:45 people. You're talking about unfallen people. So think about how far we've gotten in terms of 1.00
00:10:54 science and innovation and discovery. And that's because we're made in the image of God, but sin
00:11:00 is working against us. Sin is working against us. We're still able, unbelievers are able to do
00:11:05 amazing things because they're made in the image of God. But every time an unbeliever discovers 1.00
00:11:09 something that is actually true, it's only because they're working inconsistently with their actual 0.94
00:11:15 worldview, and their worldview does hang them up. It does impede their progress. It does, which is
00:11:23 why all the major innovations and discoveries have been Christians historically, until Christians 0.87
00:11:29 surrendered all these things because of dispensationalism, or premillennialism, and
00:11:32 pietism, and radical two-kingdomism, and all these things, but I digress. So you're talking about
00:11:38 a lot of people, but you're also talking about, and here's the thing, you're talking about
00:11:44 Adam still being alive. So you're talking about, oh, here's a guy who's 8,000 years old.
00:11:49 He's been learning and developing without the hindrance of sin and the way that affects our
00:11:55 development, the way that affects our learning, the way that affects how we discover and understand
00:12:01 the truth and not just spiritual truth, but truth in this world, because all truth is God's truth,
00:12:06 truth about the stars and truth about mathematics. Think about that. Think about that. Adam would be
00:12:13 8,000 years old. What do you think he would have invented? Right? Elon Musk has like 16 kids
00:12:22 from multiple wives. He's a complete pagan. He's got weird dealings with China and wants to put
00:12:27 chips inside your head. And that guy might get us to Mars. That guy might get us to Mars. I'm 0.94
00:12:34 grateful for Elon Musk because the bar is so low. You know, I'll take what I can get. But that guy
00:12:38 might get us to mars i think adam would have got us to mars i like a long long time ago and i'm i
00:12:44 don't know maybe we shouldn't go to mars but he my point is um let's so let's scale it back not
00:12:49 let's not even get to other planets and stuff and you know we could talk about moons with jupiter
00:12:52 and places that we could go there which i think there's there's some great arguments but here's
00:12:56 the deal let's just start with our world antarctica okay so before we try to colonize mars let's just
00:13:02 colonize Antarctica. Adam could have pulled it off. He could have. Seth could have done it with
00:13:08 him. You know, I mean, bring your son to work day, right? And your son is, you know, 7,700 years old,
00:13:15 you know, and you're 8,000 years old, and you're bringing all your grandsons, and it's just all
00:13:18 these titans, right? And that, man, that isn't even, whew. So we could go and go and go. This
00:13:24 is fun. But there's a debate to be had for the size, literally the physical stature and size
00:13:28 of Adam, right? So I believe, right? Call me a lunatic, but I like to call it just a Bible-believing
00:13:35 Christian who's not so proud that he has to pretend to be sophisticated, but the Word of God 0.69
00:13:39 is actually good. It's actually good for me. I'll take it. I'll take the Word of God. So that being
00:13:44 said, water's above, right? Sky, God created an expanse between the two, not one, but two bodies
00:13:50 of water. The water's above and the water's below, right? So we have oceans and seas, but we also have
00:13:54 what I would believe would be a canopy of water, right? Somewhere about where we would say the
00:13:59 ozone layer is, you know, or was until, you know, Ron DeSantis, you know, used too much hairspray.
00:14:04 But like the ozone layer, you know, the thing that was going to fall apart and we're all going
00:14:08 to be dead by now, you know, the false prophets. Well, around there, a canopy of water. And that's
00:14:14 one of the things that I believe that in the flood, God opened the geysers, the deep, right?
00:14:21 So there were bodies of water under the earth that opened up and then rising sea levels and
00:14:25 then rain, but not just rain like we know rain, right?
00:14:29 Not just like in Texas, we would say, you know, hard rain would be a gully washer, right?
00:14:33 Because it rains so much, it starts to flood all the ditches and it just wipes everything
00:14:37 clean, a gully washer.
00:14:39 But not just that, you're talking about the, I think that the canopy of water above popped
00:14:44 and it really was a global flood and flooded every square inch of the world. And the reason
00:14:52 why was to wipe out wicked humanity, which I would believe again, because I believe the Bible,
00:14:56 right? Getting crazy here, but just telling you my beliefs. Part of the reason God wiped out all
00:15:02 these people is not just because they were wicked. We've always had wicked people, but that these
00:15:06 people were hybrids. Yes, hybrids. That fallen angels, the sons of God, saw that the daughters 1.00
00:15:13 of men were beautiful and married them and went into them and created the Nephilim. And that the
00:15:20 Nephilim were horrible, horrible people, wicked, wicked people. And that Noah, it's not just that 1.00
00:15:27 Noah was this one righteous man in moral terms, but I also believe that Noah and his wife, his
00:15:32 three sons and their three wives, were the only ones who biologically, their genetics had not
00:15:38 actually been compromised, that they had not intermarried with fallen angels or the offspring
00:15:44 of fallen angels. And so God wipes out the world. But here's the deal. That's a freebie. All that
00:15:50 being said, the point is before the flood, there's a canopy of water. What would that do in terms of
00:15:57 oxygen levels? What would that do in terms of... So there's some guys who would say that basically
00:16:02 it would create almost like a synthetic hyperbolic chamber, meaning you could have
00:16:09 larger creatures that could get enough breath, like dinosaurs, dragons, or whatever it might be,
00:16:17 and that people were probably larger also. Plus, there's no chemicals and pesticides and all these
00:16:22 different things that we put in our food. So you're just eating pure food with greater oxygen
00:16:29 levels, protection from sun rays, and all these different things, and living indefinitely
00:16:36 lifespans that don't end.
00:16:38 So you're not just talking about intellect that just grows for thousands of years and
00:16:43 unimpeded by sin, but then you're also talking about physical stature, right?
00:16:49 That you have large beings.
00:16:53 Adam could have been, I don't know, he could have been six feet tall, right?
00:16:56 this, you know, this is a little bit, we're going a little bit off script here, okay? But I'm just
00:17:00 saying that it's a permissible, it is a reasonable view to hold that Adam could have been nine feet
00:17:05 tall, 10 feet tall, 12 feet tall, right? I feel like Ricky Bobby right now, right? With modern
00:17:10 advances and science and my high-level income, and, you know, no one lives forever, but it's not
00:17:14 preposterous, and, you know, 240, 250, you know, Adam could have been, you know, 12 feet tall,
00:17:18 but I believe that, you know, that's possible. So increased physical stature, purity of thought,
00:17:24 massive, tightened intellect, because no sin impeding it, and being able to intellectually
00:17:31 develop without Alzheimer's or anything for 10,000 years, because there's no stop on your
00:17:36 lifespan. So what does that all equate to? Well, I think in population equates to about
00:17:43 100 billion to a trillion people. In terms of, well, what do you do with a trillion people, Joel?
00:17:49 um i don't know i think you i think you colonize antarctica and you figure that out
00:17:56 i think there's no more sahara desert right because i already said earlier that i think
00:18:01 that that was adam's eschaton was be fruitful multiply in terms of descendants people image
00:18:06 bearers worshipers but also um the worship sanctuary the garden i think that there would
00:18:11 have been a way if sin had never entered the world especially without thorns and thistles
00:18:14 I think there were still arid places, void places, like the wilderness in which Adam was
00:18:19 created by God and then placed in the garden. But you don't have thorns and thistles. And if you're
00:18:25 saying, well, is a desert a wilderness or is a desert thorns and thistles category a result of
00:18:30 sin? I don't know exactly. I don't know exactly. I probably should think about that because I think
00:18:34 it's just fascinating. Maybe get back to me next time. Is desert wilderness level pre-sin or is
00:18:41 desert, thorns and thistles, curse brought on the ground from sin. I don't know. But the point is
00:18:47 there would be some difficult geographic climate, you know, topography, you know, kinds of
00:18:53 environments and ecosystems, and, you know, they would have to be overcome, like Antarctica,
00:18:58 like the Sahara Desert. But I have to believe they'd be less difficult without the curse of
00:19:03 sin and thorns and thistles and these kinds of things. And I think they'd be easier if people
00:19:09 were physically stronger and bigger, which that gets into, you know, some of the monuments that
00:19:14 we have, like archaeologists, you know, discovering pyramids and things like that. Like we're Nephilim
00:19:18 involved in this, you know? And so anyways, but all that kind of stuff, Adam, if he's bigger
00:19:22 and all his posterity, if they're physically bigger and stronger and they don't get tired
00:19:27 and they don't get sick and they don't get this and they don't get that, and then they live 1.00
00:19:30 forever and they're smarter because they're not, sin makes you stupid, right? Well, you need to 1.00
00:19:35 know that, right? The Bible uses the word stupid. Proverbs, Psalms, I mean, the word stupid is like, 1.00
00:19:40 why not say foolish, Joel? You're just trying to get it. No, foolish is a biblical word. So is the 1.00
00:19:44 word stupid. That's not me translating the word foolish. I mean, the Bible will say fool in one 1.00
00:19:49 verse and then say stupid. And sin makes us stupid. And so if you're living for 8,000 years instead of 1.00
00:19:55 80, sinless? Dude, what, I mean, what would, what would people be inventing? Think about what people
00:20:04 have invented with, with, with 50 year lifespans. And, and think about what people are doing right
00:20:13 now, inventing right now, while thinking that a boy can be a girl and a girl can be a boy,
00:20:18 and they're only going to live for about 70, 80 years. That's insane. So now say that the person's
00:20:25 not stupid because they're not a God hating rebel, you know, perverted by sin. And they 1.00
00:20:29 actually don't think that a boy can be a girl and they understand basic things and they're not,
00:20:34 their inventions aren't inconsistent with their worldview, but stemming and flowing out of their
00:20:38 worldview and worship of the triune God. And not for 70 or 80 years, but for 8,000 years. And when
00:20:45 it comes to whatever physical components are wrapped up into innovation, all that kind of
00:20:48 stuff, you're eight feet tall and you can bench press a house. Boom. Okay. The point is a hundred
00:20:54 billion to a trillion people, but you can figure it out. There's no more deserts. There's no more
00:21:01 Antarctica, you know, ice, everything is inhabitable and fruitful, not just harsh,
00:21:06 but fruitful. And I think you definitely could do it with every square inch of earth. Cause I think
00:21:10 that was Adam's eschatology and you might be able to do it even beyond the earth, even colonizing
00:21:15 the stars, which I'll have to do another episode on that. And I just, I got to get, I got to get
00:21:20 Alex Jones on the podcast and get my tinfoil hat, you know, to be prepared for that one.
00:21:24 Without tinfoil on my head, I cannot do that episode. Um, but it's an episode that needs to
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