If God has forgiven us once we have repented, why do we still have to die?

Death has already entered into the creation, now we are just free from it. We still "die" but we get to live forever with God.

The wages sin pays is death - Romans 6:23

Forgiveness and repentance is an ongoing process until the complete reason for the ransom has been

fulfilled. We are all born with the tendency to do what God hates - steal, lie, kill, argue, greediness, immoral sexual relations, holding grudges etc. Even if we repent this does not make us perfect for everyday of our lives we don't meet up to par with God's standards. Once he has forgiven us of a particular sin he lets go and forgets that. It is actually us who constantly beat ourselves up over pass sins and can't forgive ourselves. And when we do wrong actually we punish ourselves because of the results of these sins. God has one ultimate punishment for those who unrepentantly and continuously sin - death with no resurrection.

We die because Adam and eve sold all of us when they decided to disobey God. ANd God did promise them that they would die, hence because we are their offspring we inherited sin and eventual death.

Jesus presented his life blood to God as a sacrifice so that we all may have the CHANCE to be cleanse, become perfect, and live forever. In the near future Jesus' sacrifice meet its full purpose and would no longer be needed. In that time then we will never do wrong, thus no need to repent. But until that time comes we must continue to ask for forgiveness until we die so that we may have the chance to be resurrected in the time when all persons will be perfect.

Rev 7:14 talks about persons walking out of the Great Tribulation...The great tribulation is an event that happens before Armageddon (God's war against the wicked) this indicates that most of us may never die.

It will be that way until Jesus removes Satan's world and restores paradise to this earth.

(2 Corinthians 4:4) among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.

(John 12:31) Now there is a judging of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

At that time promises such as these will be a reality:

(Psalm 37:11) But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

(Psalm 37:29) The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And they will reside forever upon it.

(Revelation 21:4) And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

Dear Friend,

First, repentance means that we stop willfully sinning, by the Power of the Holy Spirit. Yes, we are to forgive others or God cannot forgive us. God cannot and will not be around our disgusting sin. Forgiveness is not about someone getting off the hook. It is about us being freed from the bondage of unforgiveness.

Secondly, this body we have is temporal. It stinks. It is only a "shell." Our real self is a soul/spirit. When the flesh dies, then we received glorified bodies. Jesus died He had to shed the flesh which is anti-God. Then, He received His glorified body.

It is because Adam and Eve sinned against God that we have to die. The moment that they sinned, they "spiritually" died. Separated from the fellowship with God they once enjoyed. And secondly, the flesh would have to die.

As Christian's we are to die to our 'flesh' every day. Our desires, our will... toward God's will.

To God be the glory!

God has made all men an appointment with death... with is a separation. By being forgiven we are only separated from our current physical bodies and not from God. In terms of the most significant and eternal death, those who are forgiven do not die and that is the point.

Because it's just a physical, imperfect body made imperfect by sin. All imperfect things can't last forever...but...if we are saved we get eternal life in heaven...we even get new bodies that are completely perfect in every way too :D So like if you were disabled in one leg guess what...you'll be able to walk just fine in heaven.

Don't forget though, you can also die spiritually as well. That's what the "second death" is, and what people who are saved are saved from...the ultimate payback for all sin.

When you here someone who believes in god say sin = death.. what they mean is that someone who chooses to live their life in sin and never truly repent and follow god, this would equal eternal death as they would be tortured forever in hell. but when someone follows god whole heartedly they will receive eternal life in heaven and be surrounded by the glory of god :)

that is a question that mankind will never be able to answer whether we believe or not , it simply comes down to the ageing process , ive asked myself many many times why certain people i have known throughout my 42 years have passed on and the more i think about it, the more psychollogically challenging it becomes. very good question though.

god doesnt exist, when we a re born we have taken energy from the universe temporarily and one day or the other we have to die and release the energy back into the universe...

Death is not punishment, it is graduation

Do not mistake physical death with spiritual death