April 2012 Blog Posts (36)

The Truth about the Shema

by

James Scott Trimm

Many Anti-missionaries have argued that the Shema (Deut. 6:4) conflicts with any understanding of the Deity of Messiah as taught in the so-called “New Testament”.



In this article I will prove using only ancient Jewish sources that, to the contrary, the Shema itself has been anciently understood in Judaism to refer to the unity of the…

A Nazarene Looks at the Book of Mormon

Part 4  Displacing the Promises of Israel

by

James Scott Trimm

According to Torah YHWH promised that he would make Abraham's descendants through Isaac to be the special nation to Him that would be above all nations upon the face of the earth:



[1] After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a…

Update on my wife.



As many of you know my wife went to the Hospital emergency room and they determined from a sonogram that she had a “messed up gallbladder”.  We were told she had a “large stone” and “sludge” and that there was no other option but to remove the gallbladder right away.  (See the full story at: http://nazarenespace.com/profiles/blogs/update-on-my-wife-and-hospital-visit…

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A Nazarene Looks at the Book of Mormon

Part 3: Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

By

James Scott Trimm

Joseph Smith dictated his Book of Mormon to his "scribes" from behind a curtain. You may recall that in the classic musical "The Wizard of Oz" when the Wizard is exposed as a fraud behind a curtain, he says "pay no attention to the man behind the…

A Nazarene Looks at the Book of Mormon

Part 2 Lack of Torah Knowledge

By

James Scott Trimm

The Book of Mormon claims that the peoples which it depicts as coming to the new world kept the law of Moses in all things until the time of Messiah's death:



"And we did observe to keep the judgments,

and the statutes, and the commandments…

A Nazarene Looks at the Book of Mormon

Part 1: The Anti-Nomian Book of Mormon

By

James Scott Trimm

The Book of Mormon makes a major mistake from a Nazarene standpoint. The Book of Mormon does not represent the teachings of the Bible, but instead presents the teachings Protestant Christians have BELIEVED are in the Bible.



Although the Book of Mormon, unlike…

Historical Evidence that Yeshua is Messiah

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James Scott Trimm

Anti-Missionaries often claim that there is no historical evidence to support the Gospel accounts of Yeshua's death, burial and resurrection.  One anti-missionary said:



There were no records of earthquakes or darkness on the day

purported as the day of his crucifixion.

There was…

“The Date of the Messiah is Foretold in It.” (b.Megillah 3a)

Proof that Yeshua is the Messiah

By

James Trimm

Yeshua MUST be Messiah (regardless of whether or not any other "Messianic prophecies" are validly speaking of Yeshua)



Isaiah 29 ties the apostasy of Judah to a sealed book (29:10-12) but with the revealing of that sealed book comes an…

The Lord said to My Lord

The Truth about Psalm 110

By

James Scott Trimm

In the Book of Matthew we read:



41 Now while the P'rushim were assembled, Yeshua asked them, saying:

42 How seems it to you concerning the Messiah? Whose Son is He? And they said to

Him, He is the Son of David.…

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The Torah Appeared upon Earth and Lived Among Men

By

James Scott Trimm

It has been said that there are over three hundred Messianic prophecies in the Tanak.  This article is, however, about an important Messianic prophecy you may never have heard of, found in the Book of Baruch.  Baruch was the Scribe of Jeremiah. The Book of…

THE RESURRECTED MESSIAH

By

James Scott Trimm

Anti-missionaries like Tovia Singer insist that the idea of a resurrected Messiah is non biblical.  In fact the Messianic prophecies of the Tanak do speak of the resurrection of Messiah.



One of these is to be found in Psalm 16:



10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sh’ol,

neither will You…

Of Whom Does the Prophet Speak?

(Who is the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53?)

By

James Scott Trimm

Tovia Singer and other anti-mssionaries argue that the "Suffering Servant" figure of Isaiah 53 is not a Messianic prophecy at all, and speaks instead only about Israel.



In fact the Suffering Servant Song (Is. 52:7-53:12) is the fourth of four…

Let me update you all on what is going on with my wife.



I want to thank all those who have been praying for her, there have been people praying for her throughout the USA and Europe, in Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America in fact every continent on Earth but Antarctica.  There have even been prayers made at the wall in Israel.



OK now for the update. Due to the nature of things the names have been changed to protect the guilty.



As you…

Something I've been interested in for awhile is the possibility of a textual variation in Genesis 49:22. When the MT (= Massoretic Text), LXX (= Septuagint), and SP (= Samaritan Pentateuch) are compared something arises:…

This is an update to the previous thread at:

http://nazarenespace.com/profiles/blogs/prayer-request-wife-in-the-hospital

My wife woke up around 3AM this morning with a fever of 103.4 and we went back to the ER.

They have admitted her to the hospital and they now have a diagnosis.

She has a problem with her gall bladder and may have to have it…

PaRDeS and the Two Sticks

The Two Sticks Prophecy of Ezekiel 37 on All Four Levels

By

James Scott Trimm

In Judaism it is understood that there are four levels of understanding of a passage, which correspond to the four Hebrew letters that spell the Hebrew word PaRDeS (Paradise) The word PRDS is also an acronym (called in Judaism "notarikon") for:…

PaRDeS and the Two Sticks

An Examination of the Two Sticks Prophecy of Ezekiel 37 on All Four Levels

Part 4 The Sod

By

James Scott Trimm

As we stated in part 1, in Judaism it is understood that there are four levels of understanding of a passage, which correspond to the four Hebrew letters that spell the Hebrew word PaRDeS (Paradise) The word…