According to Dean Garrett, Nephi wrote to communicate with the heart and the spirit of man, and persuaded his readers "to do good; [because his record] maketh known unto them of their fathers; and it speaketh of Jesus, and persuadeth them to believe in him, and to endure to the end, which is life eternal" (2 Nephi 33:4). Those who read Nephi's writings need to decide their effect: whether they encourage them to accept Christ and live a Christ-like life, or rather encourage them to do evil and reject Christ. No reader can miss the Christ-centered emphasis of Nephi's record. As George Q. Cannon concluded after having read the book for the first time, "An evil-minded man could not have written it, and a good man would not have tried to write it with intent to deceive" (Evans and Cannon 35). [H. Dean Garrett, Nephi's Farewell," in The Book of Mormon: Second Nephi, The Doctrinal Structure, p. 379]