World growth vs. Church growth

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How many baptisms for the dead does one Mormon child have to do to break even?

Okay, Tator Boy. That was Funny!

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Growth of church compared to population growth... relevance to what?

That the acceptance of Plan of Salvation is still statistically a failure in terms of mortal population numbers compared to those that simply chose to come to earth for the free body?

Just pointing out that the stone isn't exactly rolling over the earth, ya know?

[Analytics]

How many baptisms for the dead does one Mormon child have to do to break even?

About 500

Multiply that figure by 3 for active members:
1500

Then divide by 12 for endowments in a year:
125 years

So if everyone went to the temple 3 times a month, we could keep up.


Also, let's look at the Millenium. If we start off with only 8 faithful LDS females (and males, but I'm trying to simplify population stats) let's look at what happens after 1000 years assuming the females each birth 8 kids with the 8th one being born when the female turns 30 (or rather when her youngest sibling turns 30). Of those 8 children, 4 will be female.

After 1000 years, we'll end up with 9.37 * 10^20 females.

If we drop the number of children to 4 (2 females), we end up with 87 billion females at the end.

The Millenium will provide plenty of time to get the work done, but there might be crowding issues.


Oh, and Gramps, perhaps we should open a thread in the Off-Topic forum for investing / compound interest, that sort of thing.

[_asbestosman]

Growth of church compared to population growth... relevance to what?

That the acceptance of Plan of Salvation is still statistically a failure in terms of mortal population numbers compared to those that simply chose to come to earth for the free body?

Just pointing out that the stone isn't exactly rolling over the earth, ya know?

It depends on what you mean by rolling over the earth. It actually is rolling over the earth because we now have stakes, wards, and branches across the globe except in some places such as China or the Middle East. Percentage wise I would expect the church to remain small. Even scripture states that the number of righteous will be few compared to the wicked even though some of the wicked have their names on the membership rolls of the church.

1 Nephi 14:12 And it came to pass that I beheld the church of the Lamb of God, and its numbers were few, because of the wickedness and abominations of the whore who sat upon many waters; nevertheless, I beheld that the church of the Lamb, who were the saints of God, were also upon all the face of the earth; and their dominions upon the face of the earth were small, because of the wickedness of the great whore whom I saw.

Edit: Gramps, I now have opened *this thread* in the Off Topic forum to deal with investing which is only tangentially related to church stats by way of exponential growth.