The God Culture: The God Culture Bible

It's official. Timothy Jay Schwab will be publishing a The God Culture Bible. What does this mean exactly? What will an official The God Culture Bible look like? Thankfully Tim has left us some clues.

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Golden Ladle: Off topic but are you able to list the apocryphal texts that aren't based in scripture? I want to make note of them so I don't waste my time reading. Thank you.

The God Culture: The word is fraud as no such category ever existed in the Temple Library. We are testing them thoroughly and releasing them 1 at a time. We will produce a list once we have vetted them all properly. However, anything not found physically in part or in use in Qumran is highly suspect and likely never Bible Canon. In the end, we will compile all of these into 1 book and then, we will release the modern Canon with corrections to the best of our ability. Scholars have proven they do not care about preserving the word or they would have put the name of YHWH back the 6,800+ times they replaced His name with generic titles instead in illiterate ignorance. Fixing their satanic mess is quite a large task but in time, Yahuah will restore all. They will face the consequences for their acts of cowardice or downright satanic, beast function. Yah Bless.

Note that Tim did not answer this man's question. In fact, it seems he misunderstood it. What the man wanted to know is which books of the Bible are not actually books of the Bible which he should avoid. For Tim that would include Esther and Maccabees at least.

This misunderstanding is a boon for us because we now know where Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture is headed. He is going to produce his own Bible. According to this statement, as well as many other statements made throughout his videos, the real Bible Canon is to be found at Qumran. Anything that was not there is "highly suspect and likely never Bible Canon."

Does he not realize that with that standard the New Testament will have to go? No New Testament text was found at Qumran. The leaves us with only the Old Testament plus many other books like Jubilees and The Community Rule and The War Scroll.

That the bulk of this Bible will be the Old Testament sounds pretty cut and dry but it is not. The Old Testament fragments found at Qumran differ from the Masoretic text. 

The discovery of ancient manuscripts in the eleven caves of Khirbet Qumran in the Wilderness of Judah has provided the first full light on the ancient Hebrew text of the Bible in the era before the fixing of text and canon. There is no sign of a canon at Qumran, nor any tendency that can be perceived of the influence of the Rabbinic Recension, or of a drift toward it. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls are many manuscripts that we can label proto-rabbinic in text. But there are also manuscripts related to the Vorlage of the OG Bible, and pentateuchal manuscripts of the Palestinian textual family that gave rise to the Samaritan recension of the Pentateuch. The biblical manuscripts of Qumran exhibit variants of a type that differ toto caelo from the character of the variants found in medieval manuscripts. In the case of a number of biblical books, alternative editions or recensions (as opposed to textual families) were circulating in the several Jewish communities into the Roman period. The most stunning examples are the short text of Jeremiah (related to that used by the OG translator), and the long text of Jeremiah, ancestral to that chosen by the rabbis in their Recension. Manuscripts of proto-Samaritan type show extensive, indeed, in the case of 4QNum (4Q27), systematic editorial expansion. In the case of Daniel, the rabbis chose a short edition, and the OG translators used a longer text edition. This list of long and short editions can be extended. The plurality of text-types and editions at Qumran can be explained in part by remembering that the Zionist revival, beginning in Maccabaean times and extended by Parthian expulsions, brought a flood of Jews from Babylon, Syria, and Egypt back to Jerusalem. Indeed, the bizarre plurality of texts and editions at Qumran is a good illustration of the conditions that produced a crisis and required resolution, namely, the Rabbinic Recension of the early first century C.E.

The Qumran Scrolls force us to grapple in a wholly new way with problems of the canonical text. It is obvious that there was never an “original text” at any one moment of time. Biblical books, those with authors or editors, were revised, rewritten, expanded, truncated. These changes, moreover, took place before the later books were written or edited. Grammar, lexicon, and orthography were brought up to date. So what are we to do in the two areas of textual criticism and establishing anew a plausible doctrine of canon?

The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, vol. 1, p. 72-73

This means that the community at Qumran was using a Hebrew text which resembles the Septuagint more than the Masoretic text.

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-versions-and-translations/the-original-bible-and-the-dead-sea-scrolls/

Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls actually have more in common with the Greek Septuagint than the traditional Hebrew Masoretic Text. This suggests that the Greek translators must have been translating from Hebrew texts that resembled the Dead Sea Scrolls. Are the Dead Sea Scroll texts as trustworthy as these other two sources? Are they as close to the text of the original Bible?

This difference is very crucial especially as it comes to the timeline. Tim is very big on the calendar. Figuring out what the true calendar is is very important to him. According to Timothy Jay Schwab the calendar has been so warped that he does not even know what day or month it is.

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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄: What day, month and year is it today?

The God Culture: Frankly, they have done a royal cluster whammy on the modern calendar. Every day is wrong, every Sabbath, every month, and every year is wrong on the supposed Hebrew Calendar as well as the Roman one we use. We are working on reconciliation but every time we opened a portion, it leads to more and more questions. It was quite intentional and the powers behind modern Judaism or Pharisaism by definition in the Jewish Encyclopedia, as well as the Roman Catholic Church, have worked very hard to screw it up. This will be restored in our age. Yah Bless.

Despite saying all that Tim does believe he knows what the correct year is and even claims to know the year Jesus will return, 2127. He bases that on the chronology found in The Book of Jubilees. This book, which was found at Qumran and was held in high esteem by the community, divides all of time into a series of Jubilees or 49 years. There is a huge problem with that which is the chronology in Jubilees does not agree with either the Septuagint or Genesis. You cannot have Genesis and Jubilees in the same book calling them scripture when they are diametrically opposed to one another. 

Because of these differences Tim would also have to decide which text of the Bible he would use. The Septuagint or the Masoretic. We have the Masoretic text in full but all the Hebrew texts found at Qumran are fragments. That the Dead Sea Scrolls are all fragments is another big hurdle Tim would have to leap. Geza Vermes' translation of the scrolls looks like this:

You see all the brackets, parentheses, and ellipses? Those are places where the text is missing or supplied by the translator. The fact is if any of the books particular to the Qumran community such as the War Scroll were to be deemed by Timothy Jay Schwab to be scripture and fit for inclusion in The God Culture Bible then they would be full of holes because portions are missing.

Which translation would The God Culture Bible use? The KJV? Brenton's Septuagint? A synthesis of the two? Will it be a completely new translation based on the Hebrew and Aramic texts found at Qumran? Of course not because while every book in the Bible except Esther was found in the caves they are all in fragments and are completely unaccessible to Tim. Sure you can view a few copies on the internet which have been scanned for all to see but the vast bulk of scrolls are hidden away from the general public. They are 2,000 years old after all and need serious care to remain intact. As for the scrolls unique to Qumran he would have to publish his own translation since current translations are all copyrighted. Again, he cannot do this because he does not have access to them nor does he know Hebrew except with the aid of online tools. But even if he did he any translation would be fragmentary and would require him to make educated guesses in many places and would not be the actual text used by the separatist Qumran community.

What exactly will Tim be testing and vetting since he has no access to the Dead Sea Scrolls except for what has been published for popular reading such as the edition by Geza Vermes? It's odd that Tim cites only Vermes when there are other translations out there such as the one by Florentino Garcia Martinez. That he only cites one translation is a red flag that Tim is not actually doing any real research on the matter. He claims that he reads scholarly literature from time to time but that seems very doubtful because he never cites any of that literature which he claims to have indisputably rebutted.

Exodus is in the Bible so it can be safely assumed that it will be included in The God Culture Bible. But will it include Exodus 4:24 which Tim says does not fit and which contradicts Jubilees?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V54mWhuiH0w&lc=UgwvjOotDuuoqhsMJSB4AaABAg

mbeatg : Hello, can you address Exodus 4:24. I heard you address Jasher. Based on Jubilees, would you consider this more “ Leaven”

The God Culture : It does not fit indeed. Yah Bless.

Surely Tim will "restore" Cainian to Genesis 10:24 which is missing in the Masoretic text but remains in the Septuagint. Tim has a whole video about this missing word and how it proves the Pharisees intentionally corrupted the text. If he did so that would mean giving credence to the Septuagint so he might as well publish that translation which agrees with the Hebrew texts found at Qumran. But on what basis would he do that? It could not be based on any of the fragments of Genesis found at Qumran and to which he has no access. 

Any modern bible worth it's salt has several maps in the back. They show the Exodus, the travels of Paul and the travels of Jesus, as well as the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Will The God Culture Bible have a map of the Philippines showing that the Garden of Eden is underneath the floor of the Sulu Sea? 

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Will he have maps showing the great ocean trench system which he claims are the rivers from Eden?

Timothy Jay Schwab's Rivers From Eden map

Surely The God Culture Bible will contain a map of Noah's division of the earth with its references to Fairbanks, Alaska and Bengali slang.

The cold hard fact is that Timothy Jay Schwab could never publish a Bible based on the Dead Sea Scrolls which is 100% faithful to those texts because they are fragmented and he has no access to them. If he sticks to his guiding principle that the Qumran community kept the true canon of scripture then he could absolutely not include the New Testament. The New Testament was compiled and collected by the Church. The canon of the New Testament was decided, not by authoritarian Popes as Tim claims, but through constant usage in the liturgy. Subsequently that canon was confirmed at the Council of Carthage in 397.

If Tim did include the New Testament that would be a huge blow to his stated principle that the community at Qumran kept the true canon. He would have to give a reason for the canonicity of the New Testament and he would not be able to appeal to the Church which he considers to be the Synagogue of Satan. The fact is that neither Timothy Jay Schwab nor anyone else can give a coherent reason that the New Testament is scripture without appealing to the witness of the Church. 

In short this whole business of The God Culture Bible is a nonsensical waste of time. It is also more confirmation that The God Culture is a cult and Timothy Jay Schwab is a cult leader. Every heretical sect and cult has its own scriptures. Once The God Culture Bible is published that will set an indelible mark upon Timothy Jay Schwab and his group. They will be no different than the Mormons or the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Urantians who each have their own Bibles.