Why do we sin if we are dead to sin?

Christ came to the world not to appease any wrath of an unmerciful God—not as an atonement for a sinful world—not to save us from the inevitable result of our own sin, but He did come to save us from the dread and horror of the grave—to reveal to us a purer and better existence beyond that grave—to reveal to us all we could comprehend of God's love and mercy—to reveal in His own spiritual body a living, tangible witness of the spiritual future of which he taught.

He came to bring tidings of great joy in that God's blessed spirit is everywhere waiting to guide and uplift the weak and trembling spirit that is ready to receive its impressions. 

He came to save you from sin and suffering through your own love nature when it can comprehend the glorious truth that God first and always loves you. 

He came to teach of the law also—to tell you the inevitable result of reaping as you sow. 

It was necessary that He should suffer and die, not for an atonement, but for a revealment—to make a strong impression on their minds, and to reveal himself to them afterward, and clinch the fact of a spiritual existence in the minds of his followers.

If this one fact could be fully received into every human being's mind, together with the truths, which he taught that through prayer strength of spirit is given to overcome the lower nature by will of the higher, the world would be saved indeed—saved in the very sense in which Christ came to save the world from its sins.

Let every man know that just what he is determines the spiritual plane upon which he stands in any state of existence—let him know that everything in his development depends upon his own efforts, and let him understand with what charity, love and mercy God, and even every being upon a plane above himself, is ready and anxious to give him all he is capable of receiving of spiritual aid, and the innate love of light that is in even the lowest mortal will glow and diffuse its warmth through his whole being and impel him toward his salvation.

There is no such possible thing as a soul's being totally lost. 

It may be at a standstill for ages, but there is always eternity ahead. 

There is no entire misery nor unalloyed happiness for any soul in its progressions; but the degree of either depends upon how much of a comprehension of God's justice and mercy the individual has arrived at.

LEAFLETS OF TRUTH—OR Light From the Shadow Land