Also known as the pierced heart denoting that a thing is capable of serving God. Being born again is a type of spiritual rebirth, or the birth or the soul. The pierced heart is a prayer, the true prayer. I is not a vocal prayer, or a prayer recited in our minds. It is a prayer in our hearts; it is a sincere plea to God inscribed in our very souls. This prayer comes to us the moment, in our most desperate hour, we realize we are nothing without God and desire nothing more than to be one with God (Avahr 2:11-17). In this moment we are Born Again.
Being born again mergers our eternal spiritual selves and our mortal, physically selves giving birth to the soul. God answers this plea the moment one’s heart is broken. We pray in our hearts for deliverance, and God obliges us immediately (Alma 3:25-29 RAV, 5:12-14 OPV). Christ’s Grace will continue to help unify us until he has fully perfected us, body and soul, at the resurrection.
See 1 Moses 4:8; 4 Moses 23:1; Mosiah 11:187-188 RAV, 25-26 OPV; Alma 3:85-88 RAV, 49-50 OPV; John 3:3-7; 1 Peter 1:23.