Remission of death with plenary indulgences?

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I have a question:

If plenary indulgences, or indulgences in general, remove temporal punishment, why is death not removed?

I realize that physical death AND spiritual death are the eternal punishments after the Fall, and Christ defeated for us the spiritual death through His paschal mystery, but if physical death was associated with that before His salvific act, why do we still have it, even if it is now just viewed as necessary for passing from this life to the next?

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StBruno,

Thanks for the post. Actually, it’s on the mixture of wine and water during the gifts at mass, but I have already read the post on the Vatican website, and it does not answer the question clearly. I do appreciate the effort!

Catholic.com, and James Akin, Enchiridion have all been read but I am still not clear about it.
 
CA3891 said:
I have a question:

If plenary indulgences, or indulgences in general, remove temporal punishment, why is death not removed?
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Temporal punishment is corrective punishment and retributive punishment due to actual sin. Death is the result of original sin. Also, He conquered death, but those fruits will not be applied until the Last Judgment.
 
The Book of Wisdoms might have an answer for you. It talks about how death is seen to others , but is something else to the just man. Tim
 
Genesis 3:15:

Could you elaborate on your points, please?

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whoops , I goofed with that link, too many windows open at the same time.

But here’s the vatican information regarding plenary indulgences.
vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P3I.HTM

Can. 992 An indulgence is the remission before God of temporal punishment for sins whose guilt is already forgiven, which a properly disposed member of the Christian faithful gains under certain and defined conditions by the assistance of the Church which as minister of redemption dispenses and applies authoritatively the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.
Can. 993 An indulgence is partial or plenary insofar as it partially or totally frees from the temporal punishment due to sins.
Can. 994 Any member of the faithful can gain partial or plenary indulgences for oneself or apply them to the dead by way of suffrage/

No where does it stay there is a remission death, but rather it can be applied to those who have died.

And if you are looking for reasons why we have to die…I like this homiletic approach…maybe you will as well.
absolutetruth.net/easter/page6.html
God had laid down only one law in this Garden-paradise…mankind was not to eat from this certain tree. A simple enough command, not complicated or hard to obey. In fact, with the thousands of other pleasureous and amazing options at Adam and Eve’s disposal, one would wonder why this tree would ever tempt them. But it did.
Thus, the reason for death is what the Bible calls “sin”. Sin is breaking the Laws of the Creator. All sin separates us from God and from His plan for our lives. Romans 6:23 tells us that “the wages of sin is death.” The payment we deserve for our sin is death…that is our wage. **And ultimately, that is why death is in the world. **Not because God created the world to be that way…but because we, the human race, rebel against Him and bring judgment upon ourselves. The Bible quotes God as saying: “I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked.” And again, “The Lord…is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Pet. 3:9)
 
Thank you very much for that reply.

I guess what I am trying to get at is how to explain the sufficiency of what Christ did on the cross conquered death (which we know since our sins are forgiven), and yet the act of death still remains.

Someone mentioned that the removal of death will not be removed until the last judgment.
 
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