“One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of Mormon has Christian doctrine prior to the coming of Christ; that it has seemingly New Testament doctrines appearing centuries before Jesus arrives, and it seems to be representing a form of Christianity existing in the New World where there doesn't seem to be much evidence of that archaeologically. Christianity is invisible in the New World prior to the coming of Columbus, and so those things seem like clear anachronisms to people looking at it in that way.”
![“For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still it stands.” Jeffrey R. Holland” quote by Jeffrey R. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18a/jeffrey-r-holland-1190_book_for-179-years-the-book-of-mormon-has-bee_425989.jpg)
![“For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still, it stands.” quote by Jeffrey R. Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d7/jeffrey-r-holland-1190_attacking_for-179-years-the-book-of-mormon-has-bee_1929730.jpg)
![“Horses in the Book of Mormon would be another. You have relatively few mentions of horses, but there are some, and we don't know exactly how they were used; they don't seem to be all that common. Were they horses as we understood them, [or] does the term describe some other animal? Languages don't…” quote by Daniel C. Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/327/daniel-c-peterson-94459_animal_horses-in-the-book-of-mormon-would-be-an_1768607.jpg)
