READING #4- •    Due 8/29/16 PLEASE READ THESE 2 ARTICLES BEFORE CLASS AND UNDERSTAND DEEPLY THE PHRASE “BORN AGAIN” AND HOW THE ATONEMENT ASSISTS IN THAT PROCESSSS. David A. Bednar, “The Atonement and the Journey of Mortality,” Ensign, Apr. 2012, 40–47. D. Todd Christofferson, “Born Again,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2008, 76–79.

Are You a Born Again Christian? John 3:3 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Are You a Born Again Christian?

Mosiah 27:25 25 And the Lord said unto me: Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, must be born again; yea, born of God, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters; Alma 5:49 49 And now I say unto you that this is the order after which I am called, yea, to preach unto my beloved brethren, yea, and every one that dwelleth in the land; yea, to preach unto all, both old and young, both bond and free; yea, I say unto you the aged, and also the middle aged, and the rising generation; yea, to cry unto them that they must repent and be born again. Alma 7:14 14 Now I say unto you that ye must repent, and be born again; for the Spirit saith if ye are not born again ye cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore come and be baptized unto repentance, that ye may be washed from your sins, that ye may have faith on the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, who is mighty to save and to cleanse from all unrighteousness. Alma 36:23 23 But behold, my limbs did receive their strength again, and I stood upon my feet, and did manifest unto the people that I had been born of God. Moses 6:59 59 That by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water, and blood, and the spirit, which I have made, and so became of dust a living soul, even so ye must be born again into the kingdom of heaven

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!” President Ezra Taft Benson, “To ‘the Rising Generation,’” New Era, June 1986, 5: Alma 41:10–11 Mosiah 16:2–5 Mosiah 3:19

CARNAL adjective 1. pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures. 2. not spiritual; merely human; temporal; worldly: opposed to the spirit GALL noun 1. something bitter or severe. 2. bitterness of spirit; rancor.

Mosiah 27:11–24 Mosiah 27:24–26 Mosiah 5:1–5, 8

“Please note that the conversion described in [Mosiah 5] is mighty, not minor—a spiritual rebirth and fundamental change of what we feel and desire, what we think and do, and what we are. Indeed, the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ entails a fundamental and permanent change in our very nature made possible through our reliance upon ‘the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah’ (2 Nephi 2:8)” (Elder David A. Bednar, “Ye Must Be Born Again,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2007, 20).