Additional Speaker added to the Conference on Ancient American History – Jim Sumpter
Jim was born in Evanston, Illinois. At the age of five, his family moved to Southern California and Jim embraced the SoCal lifestyle heartily. He began surfing long before the craze hit in the early 60s and has extensively traveled the Southern California coastline in search of the perfect wave.
He graduated from Phineas Banning High School in Wilmington, California in 1965 and attended Brigham Young University, majoring in… Continue reading
The Hopewell culture (in the Great Lakes area) and The Book of Mormon: Do they match?
posted: FAIR blog 12 February 2011, argues that the events portrayed in The Book of Mormon cannot possibly have taken place in North America above the Rio Grande River, for lack of any similarities between Moroni’s Nephites and prehistoric peoples grouped by archaeologists under the Hopewell Culture, that contemporaneously inhabited the Ohio Valley.
In other words, the thirty-acre archaeological zone encloses the skeletons of about 100,000 persons, ranking… Continue reading
Announcing the 2nd Annual Conference on Ancient American History
Who were the people on the Promised Land i.e. ,”The United States”? Those people here in the United States and from the time period of 2000 BC to 400 AD had a message for those whom would possess it today.
This conference will demonstrate who anciently lived here on the Promised Land and will emphasize the requirements and responsibilties of those who now live within its boundaries… Continue reading
A Discussion of the Phrase: “This Land”
“The Book of Mormon and the Constitution”
A Look at the
The Promised Land
And the Foundation of Freedom and Liberty
Found within the Prophecies and Promises of the “Gentile Nation”
Also
The Words of Joseph Smith
And the
Setting for the “Gentile Nation”
And Land of Promise
and the
Book of Mormon
Compiled by:
Bruce H. Porter
A
Conference on Ancient American History
Conference on Ancient American History
Friday, April 1, 2011
South Towne Expo Center
9575 South State Street Sandy, Utah, 84070
9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Speakers: include Bruce H. Porter and Wayne May. Additional speakers to be announced.
Worlds without Numbers
by Bruce H. Porter
If we have over estimated by a factor of 2, there would be about 200,000 habitable planets in our galaxy.
The Universe began expanding about 20 billion years ago.
The age of the moon and earth at 4.5 billion years.
Planets around star occur commonly rather than rarely. The question is – Are the habitable?
A STAR to support a… Continue reading
The State of Israel – Spiritual vs. Political Gathering of Israel
Articles and quotes will have the source information following the text in Red.
Some Problems with Supersessionism in Mormon Thought
Steven Epperson
Review of Our Destiny: The Call and Election of the House of Israel by Robert L. Millet and Joseph Fielding McConkie. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1993. 157 pp. Bibliography, index. $11.95.
Robert Millet and Joseph McConkie have undertaken the ambitious project of… Continue reading
The State of Israel – Nursing Fathers and Mothers
by Bruce H. Porter
Nursing Fathers
“I will Lift Up Mine Hand to the Gentiles.” Promises were made to the Gentiles in the blessings conferred upon Abraham. In part these blessings have been fulfilled, and are now being fulfilled, through the scattering of Israel and the mingling of the blood of Israel among the Gentiles. Even in the punishments which were meted out to these chosen people who… Continue reading
Agency
by Bruce H. Porter
The basic gospel law is free agency and eternal development. To force us to be careful or righteous would be to nullify that fundamental law and make growth impossible. – Spencer W. Kimball
2 Nephi 2:13
13 And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye… Continue reading