thoughts...

He never had to die being Eternal God but He chose to take on a human body and suffer our sin and the death of that body as His cost for our freedom.  The freedom of those who had rebelled for all he stood for.  We who dead and never knew that our destiny was into the pit of hell, were made alive so that we could finally understand where we were going to be going without Him, understand He had changed our future and given us a destiny of life instead of death and gave us, most importantly, the ability to now understand His Glory and Majesty.  Without His opening our eyes and giving us life we would have none of this.