The Ochimba's Question

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Of the general understanding of the Catholic Christians' notion of God's judgment day as contained in the Apostles' creeds
"I believe in God, the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth,
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell;
on the third day He rose again from the dead,
He ascended in heaven,
and sits at the right hand of God,
the Father almighty;
from thence He shall come again
to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Holy Catholic Church,
the communion of Saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.
Amen."
This a summary of a Catholic faith upon which background I am forced to write this essay. The purpose of this essay is to philosophically justify the numerical magnitude in space and time as it obtainable in the supposed judgment and also the quest of this easy is to expose the psychological anguish which many individuals suffer by the mere of the last day.

Let us assume that there are not less than seven billion people in the whole world and it takes God one second to complete an individual's judgment on the last day, how many seconds, minutes ,hours ,days,weeks,months, or years will it take to complete judgments on the whole mankind?
By the time u finish answering this question, you will be propelled to examine how old you are? How are many presently living in conjunction with those already dead? Let us express our stand arithmetical lying, if one second multiplies seven billion(1*7000000000) equals seven billion seconds (7000000000)to get the total minutes we divide by sixty seconds (7000000000/60)to get one hundred and sixteen million, six hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty- six point six six(116,666,666.66)minutes. To get the total hours we divide again by sixty minutes to arrive at one million, nine hundred and forty- four thousand four hundred and four. Four four (1,944,444.44)hours to get the number of days we divide by twenty-four(24) hours that make a day equals eighty one thousand and eighteen days(81018.51) day to get the total number of years we divide by the number of days that make up a year to arrive at two hundred and twenty one years(221.96). This is a hypothetical assumption that exposes all of us - human to the unavoidable psychological anguish that by the end or before the end the judgment we human must have exhausted our life span on earth

Part two of the essay....
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All this is the fault of interpreting a creed literally. The only pronouncements that should be interpreted literally are mathematical ones.

I recommend thinking of the creed as a moving icon. The creed is only a creed it's not God.
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Who am i wrote:Of the general understanding of the Catholic Christians' notion of God's judgment day as contained in the Apostles' creeds
"I believe in God, the Father almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth,
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell;
on the third day He rose again from the dead,
He ascended in heaven,
and sits at the right hand of God,
the Father almighty;
from thence He shall come again
to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Holy Catholic Church,
the communion of Saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.
Amen."
This a summary of a Catholic faith upon which background I am forced to write this essay. The purpose of this essay is to philosophically justify the numerical magnitude in space and time as it obtainable in the supposed judgment and also the quest of this easy is to expose the psychological anguish which many individuals suffer by the mere of the last day.

Let us assume that there are not less than seven billion people in the whole world and it takes God one second to complete an individual's judgment on the last day, how many seconds, minutes ,hours ,days,weeks,months, or years will it take to complete judgments on the whole mankind?
By the time u finish answering this question, you will be propelled to examine how old you are? How are many presently living in conjunction with those already dead? Let us express our stand arithmetical lying, if one second multiplies seven billion(1*7000000000) equals seven billion seconds (7000000000)to get the total minutes we divide by sixty seconds (7000000000/60)to get one hundred and sixteen million, six hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty- six point six six(116,666,666.66)minutes. To get the total hours we divide again by sixty minutes to arrive at one million, nine hundred and forty- four thousand four hundred and four. Four four (1,944,444.44)hours to get the number of days we divide by twenty-four(24) hours that make a day equals eighty one thousand and eighteen days(81018.51) day to get the total number of years we divide by the number of days that make up a year to arrive at two hundred and twenty one years(221.96). This is a hypothetical assumption that exposes all of us - human to the unavoidable psychological anguish that by the end or before the end the judgment we human must have exhausted our life span on earth

Part two of the essay....
A very simplistic argument as to why would a being who could interpret a human lifetime in one second bother with humans (after they're dead, mind you), at all. Doesn't make sense.
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