Born Again, Collisions

We believe we must be baptized and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost (through an ordinance called confirmation) to be saved in the kingdom of heaven. The Savior taught, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).

We Must Be Born of Water and of the Spirit, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2013/02/we-must-be-born-of-water-and-of-the-spirit

Ron Rhodes, in his book Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Mormons, writes that “critical to a proper understanding of John 3:1-5 is verse 6: ‘That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit’” (p. 331). Flesh can only produce flesh, and spirit can only produce spirit, since the biblical law of reproduction is “after its own kind” (see Genesis 1:11, 24-25). Since we must be born again, we realize that it is God who gives eternal life to him who believes in Christ (Titus 3:5). This is a spiritual rebirth, which comes by faith. Rhodes explains this even further, saying,

Speaking of the John 3:5 passage, the late LDS Apostle James E. Talmage wrote that the “words of the Savior, spoken while He ministered in the flesh, declare baptism to be essential to salvation… It is practically indisputable that the watery birth here referred to as essential to entrance into the kingdom is baptism” (Talmage, A Study of the Articles of Faith, 1977, 122, emphasis added).

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