What does it take to be Christian?
Not dunking Japanese in under an hour from first handshake to baptism? This isn’t exactly controversial.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
1 John 3:21-24
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
Acts 2:40-41
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Same old dodgy, weasel-word, deliberately deceitful debate.
The differences between Mormonism and Christianity are irreconcilable.
One of the lines from the 2nd statement cited above says it pretty well:
Acts 16:31 - Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
In the matter of the salvation of the individual soul and sonship with God, any mixture of water baptism with regeneration (the New Birth) is to mistakenly read sermons preached to the nation of Israel (Jesus of Nazareth, John the Baptist and Peter particularly) concerning the repentance of that nation into the equation.
For example, one cannot find a public sermon in Acts chapters 1-7 that was not preached to Israel as a nation and her leaders. No sermon recorded in Acts chapters 1-7 was directed at either Gentiles or the Body of Christ.