Believe in Christ, Believe the Book of Mormon

I noticed something interesting in Moroni 10:

  4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. (emphasis added)

Moroni includes "having faith in Christ" in the recipe for having the truth of the Book of Mormon manifest by the power of the Holy Ghost. If we take this verse at face value it would seem that having faith in Christ is a prerequisite for the revelation of the Holy Ghost regarding the truth of the Book of Mormon. And, we hear the message of Christ in both the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

The Bible was written and sent to all people to convince the world that salvation is in and through Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As is said in John 20:

  31 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ is for, "the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations." It testifies that the God of the Old Testament lived in mortality as the Jesus of the New Testament. Nephi asserts, in 2 Nephi 33, that those who believe in Christ will believe the truth of the Book of Mormon.

  10 And now, my beloved brethren, and also Jew, and all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words and believe in Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ. And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for they are the words of Christ, and he hath given them unto me; and they teach all men that they should do good.

It seems that, as always, Jesus Christ should be the focus. We do not seek a testimony of the Book of Mormon for the book's sake. We seek it because the Book of Mormon teaches of Christ. We believe in the Book of Mormon because it increases our belief in Jesus Christ. In fact, the truth of the Book of Mormon is manifest by the power of the Holy Ghost because it is the role of the Holy Ghost to witness of the Father and the Son (see 2 Nephi 31:18).