How busy is St Peter?

The Bible says that St Peter is at the ‘Gate of Heaven’ and decides who gets into Heaven.

If there are a Billion Christians – and just the one Heaven for all Christians – roughly ten million will die each year. That’s around 30,000 per day. That equates to about 3,000 arrivals per working hour – and with 3,600 seconds per hour, that comes to one per second.

Does St Peter just make a snap decision on each candidate? Or do they need C.V.s, references, testimonials? Clearly St Peter would have to work very fast…. And would there be an Appeals system – for those wrongly rejected (maybe mistaken identity in all the rush) – or for those wrongly admitted, where people recognise somebody who should not have been admitted (paedophiles and so on).

Clearly this does not make sense.

The implication is that the absolute word of God – as in the Bible – needs to be interpreted and updated. So how do you decide whether to take any of it literally, and which parts are ‘valid’. Think about views on Homosexuality, Creation, the ‘Virgin Birth’.

So it would the Bible is something of a ‘pick and mix’ – different views will be selcted, and none are absolute. So why believe what your Pastor tells you – others will say something different, with equal validity……