The Critic's Assertion An anachronism is defined as an event that appears out of time. An example would be a reference to an event that had not yet occurred.	An Honest Response Anachronisms often occur in recorded histories by honest men. To claim an entire history false due to such is to proclaim men to be perfect.
In I Nephi 7:14, we find Nephi mourning the fact that Jeremiah had been cast into prison. It appears from the text that he is saying this happened before they supposedly left Jerusalem. According to the Book of Mormon, Nephi and his family left Jerusalem in the first year of the reign of King Zedekiah (I Nephi 1:4). According to the Bible, Jeremiah was imprisoned in the tenth year of King Zedekiah (Jeremiah 32:1-2).	Lehi and his family, including Nephi, had long departed Jerusalem towards the end of the first year of the reign of Zedekiah when Nephi, following a short return visit, sites one of Jeremiah's imprisonments. Lehi's family is living in a valley just off what is likely the eastern arm of the Red Sea over 200 miles from Jerusalem at this moment in time. Nephi's momentarily returned at this later date is to collect the family of Ishmael and it is at that time he refers to one of Jeremiah's imprisonments. This is well after Lehi's family, which included Nephi, had left Jerusalem relinquishing their Jerusalem residence according to the text of the Book of Mormon! This exposes this critic's first lie. The beginning of the critic's referred to imprisonment of Jeremiah occurs more likely in the eighth or ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, Jeremiah being imprisoned between the two sieges of the two phased siege of Nebuchadnezzar while attempting to leave Jerusalem to return to his home city in the Land of Benjamin. Subsequent to this imprisonment, (Jeremiah 37:11-15). Jeremiah is confined variously and not released again until after the fall of Jerusalem. (NOTE: Any Biblical scholar worth their salt knows that various chapters in Jeremiah appear out of proper chronological sequence. Thus the imprisonment of Jeremiah to which Nephi refers occurs in Jeremiah 37:15, which information is provided the scholarly intellectual as a footnote cross reference later added to the Book of Mormon original text by the Apostle Orson Pratt. Hence, the Jeremiah 32:1-2 critic referenced confinment of Jeremiah in the tenth year of King Zedekiah is just a subsequent change of confinment location of the imprisonment actually first began in the eithth/ninth year of Zedekiah as just explained. This 'honest' 'intellectual' inquirer doesn't even have the Biblical dates and facts straight. His facts are thus muddled and inaccurate.)
The only way to avoid an anachronism is to assume that Nephi was not referring to something that happened before they left but to an event that happened after he and his family had already been in the wilderness nine years or more. However, this is impossible in light of what I Nephi 17:4 states, which is chronologically some time after the events of I Nephi 7:14.	It would seem that I must define this 'ignorant' critic's own anachronism, as it is apparent he knows little about the Book of Mormon of himself. For there is an anachronism which has several possible resolutions. The anachronism however does not arise out of the divinely translated text of the Book of Mormon at all, thus the lies of this dishonest critic continue. The anachronism arises out scholastic and academic interpretation my honest men making a mistake years after the publishing of the Book of Mormon (1830). The first to divide the Book of Mormon into verses with the first set of cross refernces was the Apostle Orson Pratt. It was he who set out the Jeremiah 37:15 cross reference to 1 Nephi 7:14. In 1920/1921, some 90 years after the first publication date of 1830, Elder James E. Talmage, a renown LDS scholar and church leader, with the sanction of the church added the 'suggested' approximate chronological dates to the Book of Mormon as further footnotes. These scholarly footnotes never where a part of the record of the Book of Mormon as taken from the gold plates. Elder Talmage used Elder George Reynolds' chronological study liberally in so applying the suggested dates to the Book of Mormon text. Again, this suggested chronological dating is of 'modern' academic interpretation and is not a part of the inspired translation of the book by Joseph Smith. These suggested date footnotes attempt to aid students in their study of the Book of Mormon but do not have the authority of scripture. Also to aid in the study of the Book of Mormon, various additional cross-referencing notes have been added from various scholarly sources at various times. These have been done by learned Book of Mormon scholars again with the worthy intentions of enhancing the study of the Book of Mormon. Just as cross-referencing in the Bible lacks official scriptural sanction, neither do the Book of Mormon cross-references. It is from these later scholarly efforts by honest men that the supposed anachronism is created or more precisely formed.
The obvious answer to this problem is that Joseph Smith inserted the reference to Jeremiah into the Book of Mormon as he was writing it, without realizing that he had created an anachronism.	The false conclusion at the left is easily dismissed as it has been dangerously based on dishonest, ignorant, and prejudicial premises. Joseph Smith did not create the supposed anachronism, it was formed by the honest efforts of later scholars adding cross-references and suggested but not scriptual chronological dates to the later published editions of the Book of Mormon. Neither was the anachonism created out of Joseph's divine translation of the text from the Golden Plates. The only thing that is 'obvious' to 'honest' 'intellectual' 'inquiry' is the 'dis- honesty' 'ignorance' and 'prejudical bias' of this critic's belligerent attack. As for the resolution to the 'honest anachronism' which has evolved out of the good intentions of later scholars, there are several possible answers, two of which I will enumerated: 1 - Nephi's sited imprisonment of Jeremiah (I Nephi 7:14) is not the one sited in the Bible in either Jeremiah 32:1-2 or Jeremiah 37:15, but of a different occasion, perhaps not even recorded in the Bible. The Book of Jeremiah is somewhat fragmented, imcomplete, and ill organized as to time and events as afore sited. The order as to the arrest of Jeremiah and subseqent confinements which occurs in chapter 37 and reported in chapter 32, five chapters prior to the arrest, are not in proper order. At any rate, the later scholarly supplied Book of Mormon cross-reference by Orson Pratt to the Bible, Jeremiah 37:15, would be where the error lies under this first scenario. 2 - Some of the 'suggested' chronological dates provided in 1920/1921 are in error as inserted by Talmage in 1920/1921 and need to be corrected for this particular time frame of the Book of Mormon history in the book of 1 Nephi. Neither of thess scholarly errors are errors in the text of the Book of Mormon. Both of these would be the error of honest men who are not perfect. Even if an error were found in the text of the Book of Mormon, it would be the error of one its authors such as Nephi. Nephi wrote his 'small plates' scriptural autobiographical history years after it occurred. What man is able to perfectly recount their own life's happenings in such manner? What is obvious is that reasonable men of commonsense, realizing their own imperfections, will understand what I have here said.