Dear Gramps,

I just read the question from Mark about the overpopulation of the earth, etc…I have two comments, first, I have always heard that the Lord made enough for all. It is us, mankind that has created the problem with resources and their distribution, not the Lord. And second, how many families in the Mormon Church nowadays have 7 children? I see very few. I get the feeling Mark is using his “concern” for the earth as a blind for his desire to ridicule “Mormons” and our beliefs.

Marcea, from Titusville, Florida

Dear Marcea,

With respect to your comments on overpopulation, what I didn’t put in the answer to Mark (and perhaps should have) was the following scripture from the Doctrine and Covenants104:14-18—

I, the Lord, stretched out the heavens, and built the earth, my very handiwork; and all things therein are mine. And it is my purpose to provide for my saints, for all things are mine. But it must needs be done in mine own way; and behold this is the way that I, the Lord, have decreed to provide for my saints, that the poor shall be exalted, in that the rich are made low. For the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare; yea, I prepared all things, and have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves. Therefore, if any man shall take of the abundance which I have made, and impart not his portion, according to the law of my gospel, unto the poor and the needy, he shall, with the wicked, lift up his eyes in hell, being in torment.

Gramps