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Why it is the rational behind the fact that sins are only forgiven before death?

Not sure what you mean.
If you are a Christian, you can anytime confess and get your sins forgiven. Not only before death,
And after death, again, if you are a Christian and believe in it sincerely, you go to purgatory and then you can have your sins forgiven.
*Disclaimer: I am not a Christian, but I've been before, so know the "procedures".

Why every right thing needs to be "rational"? What this rationalism means in your opinion? Is the True God's wish not the rational, if the God is the Verity Himself?

well, there are always deadlines...

bahman wrote:Why it is the rational behind the fact that sins are only forgiven before death?

Why would there be a rationale to a fantasy?

Because you can't pay if you are not alive.

bahman wrote:Why it is the rational behind the fact that sins are only forgiven before death?

If there is anything else after we die, then your inclinations and deepest motivations at death may impact on your future just as they would have done had you lived.

I do like the idea of continued cause and effect but it may also be that death truly returns all elements of oneself to chaos. It certainly does this on all levels down to the quantum scale. At all of these scales, upon death we are disintegrated, the only question being the rate at which this occurs.

Speculatively, the Planck scale would seem the last place for one's life information to reside post-mortem. Anything smaller than that scale cannot be meaningfully said to exist or occur in space or time (in Planck time).

Less chance to renege, meaning fewer do-overs.