The Book of Mormon was written for our day. Later in his own book, Mormon says, “I speak unto you [latter-day readers] as if ye were present” (Mormon 8:35). “We did not borrow the Book of Mormon from the ancients; they wrote it to us. We are the audience Mormon and Moroni addressed as they chose what was to be included in this scriptural record. They told us the story of Korihor because they knew that we would have our Korihors. The Korihor of the Book of Mormon story is but the prototype of our modern anti-Christs” (McConkie and Millet, Sustaining and Defending the Faith, 96).