Fabricated Origins
Trimm states the Nazarenes (N'tzarim) were the first believers in Y'shua,
and they also were a Jewish sect. He sites verses from Acts 11:19 and
24:5. Acts
Jewish Identity
James states,
"Nazarene Judaism maintains a belief in Y'shua
as the Messiah. We do not leave the Jewish identity, heritage and culture
to 'convert' to a new or foreign religion." First, James is not Jewish. In
fact the original "Beit
Din" of SANJ was composed of James Trimm, not
Jewish but posing as Jewish. Michael Detwiler,
also not Jewish though he claimed to be. He paid and received a false
conversion by a Rabbi that was not even recognized as a Rabbi by any sect of
Judaism. The man is notorious for giving false conversions for a fee. He has
"converted" others that are claiming to be Jewish and calling themselves Rabbi's. Yaakov (James)
Hartley, also not Jewish, but posed as Jewish and was the first to leave SANJ
when I first started investigating and reporting on it. Steve
Heiliczer, Jewish. Eric Sandquist,
not Jewish and Michael Calpino, not Jewish, but he
never claimed to be. Not only were the bulk of them not Jewish, but the
frightening thing was they were posing as Jewish. Yet he has the gall to say
that "We do not leave the Jewish identity."
New Religion
Then he
compounds it by saying that they are not converting to a new or foreign
religion. James has created a religion where one did not exist. He has placed
characteristics on the "Nazarenes" that were not there or attributed
by those who were. He most certainly has created a new religion. He
states, "Nazarene Judaism is a spiritual Renaissance." Renaissance
means a rebirth. I don't see where it was born in the first place and from all
that Trimm lists of what they believe, it is more of
spiritual syncretism than anything.
Anti-Christian
James makes the
ironic statement, "Nazarenes refrain from
calling themselves Christians. The first use of the term Christian was in
Yahwists
The farthest
back that I can find, the term Yahwist is an English
derivative of the German term "Jahwist". It
was used by 19th century writers who theorized that the books of Mosheh were written by 4 different types of writers, Yahwist, Elohist, Priestly and Deuteronomist, only they used Jahwist,
being German of course. The Yahwist writers are
those who supposedly did not use any form of El/Elohey/Elohiym,
in the place of the name YHWH. Scholars, dealing with the Documentary
Hypothesis, are the more dominant users of the term Yahwist.
More recently, certain people associated and adopted the term to apply to
themselves for using the name YHWH, rather than a substitute. I cannot find any
substantiation for the term being used of any early group of believers. Despite
this, Trimm uses the term, almost synonymously for
that of Nazarene, to denote any early believing group that he chooses to label
such, despite the fact that the earliest writers did not.
Superiority
James is fond of
determining what he feels is the best, the oldest, the original, the ultimate
of any subject that he is discussing. Then, of course, he applies whatever is
best, to himself. If the oldest group of believers is
designated Nazarene, then he is determined to resurrect this group. Not only to
resurrect it, but he built a Nazarene Beit Din, based on Judaism's use of a Beit
Din. Then he appointed himself as Nasi - Prince of
this created Beit Din. All of his adoptions are based
on those that are of Jewish origins, because James is so fond of quoting that
everything from the tribe of
Sectarianism
A sect is
defined as a body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a
religious denomination. Also, Any group or faction
united by a specific doctrine or under a doctrinal leader. This is what James
is all about, taking something that the Scriptures clearly speak of as wholeness,
echad ( unity ), a oneness
in one beyth, the Beyth
YHWH, with YHWH as the authority and splintering it. James
"resurrects" a supposed sect of the earliest believers in Yahusha'. He created a doctrine to go with this sect and he
set himself up as a leader of it. He does not
try to bring about unity with other believers, but constantly sets up limits as
to why others are excluded. He has insulted others for not being Jewish, while
lying that he is. He has insulted others for not being "Yahwists", implying that he is ever so righteous for
using the name YHWH, regardless of the fact that his behavior causes him to
bear the name YHWH for nothingness and he uses the name as a club to bash those
that don't use it. He has chosen certain aspects of Judaism and insults those
that do not hold to idea of Talmud being equal
to Thorah. He insists that Yahusha'
was Pharisaic and therefore he is too and those that are not, are of course,
lesser. James does not even deny, but boldly proclaims that he is trying
to reconstruct the "ancient sect of Nazarene
Judaism." Not wholeness, not shalom, not unity in YHWH, but sectarianism.
Qabbalism
There is a
saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Many who have studied the reasons of those that get into any
form of mysticism, have deduced that one of the main reasons is a desire for
power. The power to control your life, those around you, your
future, etc. Trimm firmly believes in the Jewish
form of mysticism called Qabbalah. Qabbalah is defined in "A Comprehensive Etymological
Dictionary of the Hebrew Language", by Ernest Klein, as Post Biblical
Hebrew meaning receiving, accepting. He further defines that it was not until
the times of Mishnaic Hebrew that Qabbalah
became known as Jewish mysticism. Trimm not only
believes in Qabbalah, but has a website dedicated to
it, http://www.ihms.net/kabbalah/ .
He has also written a book, which he sells on his SANJ site called, "The
Middle Pillar: A Jewish Perspective on the Godhead." This is also
one of the subjects "studied" at Trimm's
"yeshiva". While Qabbalah is too
large of a subject to cover in just a paragraph, I
want to list some of the components of Qabbalah.
Encyclopedia Judaica lists cosmology, angelology, and
magic, magical elements, secrets of names, numerology, magical incantations,
demonology, pantheism, transmigration of the soul, ecstasy,
magic of letter combinations, amulets and charms, alchemy,
astrology, etc. All Qabbalah is,
is a substitute for a real relationship with YHWH, which they cannot achieve
without a pure heart. They say they are seeking YHWH, but all they are doing is
building a tower to the heavens under the name Qabbalah.
They will no more reach YHWH with Qabbalah, than
those at
Misquotes
James Trimm writes numerous articles, forum posts, books and
such. The net is littered with his work. In all of his writings, a common
pattern soon becomes quite obvious to anyone checking his quotes and
references, on the small amount of writings even bearing references. The
pattern is that James Trimm constantly misquotes. He
picks and chooses parts of verses, peoples quotes, and authors quotes ( yes authors are people too). He does this because if he
were to quote an entire sentence or passage, the context would obviously be
different than what he is trying to promote. James is banking on the fact that
no one will check him out. Many of those following him,
do not even realize how deceptive and manipulative he is. They accept him at
face value, taking him to be a Jew, who has a doctorate, is a rabbi, leader of
a Beit Din and yeshiva, who is an Aramaic and Hebrew
expert. Research has proven otherwise, as well as the fact that the only thing
he might be a master of is word manipulation. Truth is a foreign language to Trimm. Responsibility in writing is obviously not a concern
of his because it does not evidence itself in his writings. He must not take
the warning in James 3:1 too seriously, because
he teaches deception on a regular basis, without fear of YHWH.
Writings
In all of James
writings, two other patters become evident, that of borrowing, or as I like to
term it, Plagiarism; and that of syncretism. James likes to copy other writers works and say that he wrote it or he translated it.
Again, evidence has shown that James is not too terribly original. On the book
of Mormon forums, James sought to get a copy of the Book of Mormon, where the copyright
was expired, change the church terms to Semitic ones
and sell the book as a Semitic Book of Mormon. He solicited funds and names for
the book, when I exposed that he was Rabbi Yosef and
his Book of Mormon ties. James had been saying that he was translating the Peshitta. His updates of Aramaic examples that he had
translated were nothing but plagiarisms of authors on the Semitic NT. He even
wrote on one forum that he had copies of John Wesley Etheridge's translation of
the Peshitta, as well as James Murdock's, both, the
copyright was not active. I suspected this was the foundation for his translation
of the Peshitta, but recently found the base text
that he did plagiarize. The base text is the translation of the Peshitta by The Way International. His so called
translation of Matthew was a plagiarism of Hugh Schonfield's with
the church terms changed to Semitic ones. After seeing that James had written
on David Koresh's writings on the seals, years ago,
and someone well versed on Koresh's writings mentioned
a similarity in a post by James on the seals, I am curious if I delve into that
subject, am I going to find that James plagiarized David Koresh
as well.
Cult?
Since I had
first written this outline, James has stepped from what I would
call a self made sect, to what I now believe should be termed a cult. James
Trimm has now likened himself to a prophet,
requesting tithes be sent to him because he is a Torah teacher and has even
stated that the Nazarenes, his Nazarenes, are the 144,000 in Revelations.
In light of all
the previous information, I feel that James is not only a danger to Messianic
Judaism, but to any seeking to understand the what
this relationship with YHWH and His son is all about. Those not feeling comfortable
with Christianity, yet feeling a drawing to Hebraic roots are very susceptible.
Since I do not find the majority of his followers to be of Jewish origins,
hence all the false conversions and out right lies of being Jewish, I feel
that the greatest threat is not to Messianic Judaism, as representing Jews
of a Messianic faith, but those that are not Jewish, those that should be
grafted in, and are just learning of the Hebraic roots of their faith, only
to stumble on Trimm's site or the copy cats sites
of his followers, trying to convert them to his form of perversion. His followers
are very aggressive and becoming more prolific since the Messianic community
has not taken a united stand to expose and refute Trimm
and his teachings. All it takes for evil to triumph,
is for good men to do nothing. Trimm will not disappear
by inaction, but by truth being aggressively spoken against all his lies and
deceptions. "It is written..."