The God Culture: Team of Researchers?

I know I said no more God Culture posts but I just can't help myself. These guys are such low hanging fruit and their silly historical revisionist views about the Philippines and Filipinos as well as their manifestly shoddy research skills are both entertaining and comical. I have no idea which representative of the God Culture is posting comments on my blog posts but whoever it is they are crazy as a loon. They also refer to Tim as "our leader."

Our Leader

I do not know Tim at all.  I have never met the guy. But I imagine he is a sane and reasonable person with whom I could hold a rational conversation. Over coffee I am sure we could discuss his research and all the holes I have found in it without either of us raising our voices. It might be a little spirited and heated. We might talk past each other and will likely have to agree to disagree. We also might find common ground. There would be nothing wrong with any of that. That's just how discussions go.

The person representing the God Culture who continues to post comments on this blog is the complete opposite of my imagined picture of Tim. This person is rude, ill-informed, illogical, and ignores the substance of what I have written by sticking out his tongue and going "na-na-na-na you are dumb." Is that the kind of person the God Culture's leader Timothy Jay Schwab wants to represent his organization? Does Tim really desire to have such a childish person represent him and his team?  Maybe he does!  But I don't think so.

You can go to each God Culture post and read the comments for yourself. Most of them are longwinded, incoherent, and pointless. I'm going to post a few here that are representative of the disjointed ramblings of the God Culture.

Take this comment from The God Culture: Does Timothy Schwab Have a Missionary Visa?

Well stupid, you asked. So don't ask if you don't care. What a trashy person you are. Timothy can do whatever he wants and it is none of your business. His lawyer got him the visa he needed and you are not a lawyer nor a scholar nor a theologian so stop pretending to be. You are a fraud whose opinion has 0 value. You have not produced any credentials, no name for your viewers, no agenda. Are you a communist? You sure do act like one. 

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/god-culture-does-timothy-schwab-have.html?showComment=1584521284242#c328801674141807724

Does Tim approve of such infantile name calling? Would the leader of the God Culture want their name associated with this comment? If we were in public would Tim call me trashy, stupid, a communist, and a fraud? Would he do so in private? Is that his style? 

From the same blog post:

A judiaizer is a Zionist fool. There is no such thing as a judaizer who is not and you are ignorant yet again. You just have one brain fart after another. So clueless. 

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/god-culture-does-timothy-schwab-have.html?showComment=1584533153667#c1651514787108346926

This comment reveals the commenter's complete ignorance of what a judaizer is. In a previous post I called Tim a judaizer because he admits he wants people to keep the biblical feasts. That is to say he wants Christians to incorporate Jewish practices into their worship. My exact comment was:

Because Tim is at heart a Judaizer. He takes his Christianity scattered, smothered, and covered with Judaism and he encourages others to do the same. Timothy Schwab's message is not simply that Filipinos are members of the lost tribes but that they must also worship God in a Jewish manner.

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-god-culture-jewish-fables.html

A Zionist is a person who supports the modern day state of Israel. Zionism is a political movement dating back to the 1800's. Judaizing goes back to the time of the Apostles and has to do with adding Jewish forms of worship to Christian worship. Big difference. Not the same at all. The Apostle Paul writes all about this issue in his letter to the Galatians. It's pure ignorance on the part of this commenter. 

After a lot of back and forth with this person he finally snapped. He went berserk and posted the following gobbledy-gook.

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/god-culture-does-timothy-schwab-have.html?showComment=1584634626809#c609820347794874797

Just try to read that. I dare you. I gave up after about two sentences.  Is this the kind of nonsense Timothy Jay Schwab, leader of the God Culture, approves? Can he honestly read this and say, "This comment accurately represents myself and my organization." It's complete balderdash and drivel. He posted this same rant on The God Culture: Philippine Gold Jewelry Found in 1st Century Egypt.

This commenter also disparages one of the God Culture's most important and oft quoted sources, Thomas Suarez.

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-god-culture-philippine-gold-jewelry.html?showComment=1584195525058#c7011209112326719045

Suarez is wrong. We do not quote his conclusions because they are ignorant and loaded with propaganda as well and we do not consider him a true scholar as he tows the Rothschild line inheriting such from the likes of Samuel Purchas who was employed by the East India Company specifically to hack up this topic as a matter of record and confuse people with propaganda.

Is this what Tim thinks? Does he think Thomas Suarez is not a true scholar and is merely an unwitting agent of the Rothschilds (how ridiculous a notion!) or is this the singular opinion of the commenter? If he does think that then why is Suarez listed in the PDF of approved sources? Why does the God Culture use Suarez in at least five other videos to bolster their claims? Why not chuck him to the curb entirely and find a new source for Mela and the Turin map if the man is not a true scholar? Why associate the pure names of the God Culture and Timothy Jay Schwab with a deceiver?

https://f2568e15-4b6b-4cbb-b68a-3d729eeed9e4.filesusr.com/ugd/e23929_c5850fbfa12d4a3390a6a541db01540d.pdf

It's truly a bizarre comment to associate Thomas Suarez with the banking family known as the Rothschilds. The commenter's associating of Samuel Purchas with the Rothschilds betrays an astounding ignorance of their history as well. Purchas' dates are 1577-1626. The Rothschilds did not come into power until the late 1700's!  Has the commenter read all 20 volumes of Purchas or at least volume 1? Just what propaganda is he talking about? There is also no evidence the man worked for the East India Company according to historiographer Sir William Foster. Yet we read just the opposite in their PDF of supporting research sources.

5. Samuel Purchas. 

“Purchas His Pilgrimes.” Book 1. Samuel Purchas. Page 18-48 at least. Purchase has a very long dissertation on Ophir bought and paid for by the East India Company (Rothschilds) and never traveled more than 200 miles from Essex in his own words thus he is no explorer according to: Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Contayning a History of the World, in Sea Voyages, & Lande Travels, by Englishmen and others by Dr James Robert Wood, Trinity College Dublin. Also, Purchas did not know where Ophir was nor did he actually put up an argument against the Philippines which he does not address. Purchas was peddling a British mindset and never proves anything nor did he locate Ophir as no scholar fully did until Magellan.

Sorting out this mess will have to the left for another blog post. You can read that here.

This is all part of the God Culture's conspiratorial mindset. They believe that once the whole world knew the Philippines was Ophir. Then around 1891 it got covered up!  All that information was intentionally withheld from Filipinos so that they would not know who they are.  But did Filipinos ever know who they are or were descended from?

42. They are so ignorant that they do not have the slightest knowledge concerning the origin of the ancestors from whom they descend, and whence they came to settle these islands. They do not give any information concerning their paganism, which is not the worst; and they only preserve in certain parts some ridiculous abuses, which they observe at births and sicknesses, and the cursed belief that persuades them that the souls of their ancestors or the grandfathers of the families are present in the trees and at the bottom of bamboos, and that they have the power of giving and taking away health and of giving success or failure to the crops. Therefore, they make their ancestors offerings of food, according to their custom; and what has been preached to them and printed in books avails but little, for the word of any old man regarded as a sage has more weight With them than the word of the whole world.

http://www.philippinehistory.net/views/1720sanagustinb.htm

Magellan knew that the Philippines was the land of Ophir but an Augustinian friar who lived in the islands amongst the Filipinos in 1720 testified that the natives could tell nothing of their origin. Does that make sense?  How does that figure in the God Culture's extensive and deep historical research?

Who is the God Culture's team of researchers? That question is actually very important. We know Tim is the leader and his wife is also involved. What we don't know is who is on this alleged team of researchers. What are their qualifications? They say they will be publishing a book soon. Who will be the credited author? Tim? The God Culture? If it is "The God Culture" who will get authorial credit? Will Tim then introduce us to his team of researchers?

The God Culture is a group of independent researchers not affiliated with any denomination nor organization. This team focuses solely on relationship with the Father through His Son testing all things using scripture as it’s foundation. In recent years, their focus on restoring Biblical geography alone has led to the restoration of Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish, Havilah, Garden of Eden, Land of Creation, location of the Lost Tribes of Israel, home of John the Baptist and more and the restoration of prophecy follows. Don’t believe it? Try to prove it wrong. Their handle on scripture combined with their deep research including history, geography, archeology, science, language, etc. leads to a greater understanding of the original intent of the writers of the Word and as we read in comments all the time, leads to deep commitment for many thousands as they now see the brilliance behind the Word as it leaves many geographic markers and hints when comprehensive research is conducted especially in restoring the Hebrew meaning. 

https://www.thegodculture.com

History? Geography? Archeology? Science? Language? Do these researchers have degrees in those fields? Have they studied history, geography, etc.? Most academics have affiliations with organizations of one kind or another but apparently these people do not. We will never know anything about them unless these researchers come out of the shadows.

What kind of team engaged in groundbreaking research "restoring biblical geography" keeps their identities and CV's a secret? Anonymity is not a proper stance for anyone engaged in honest scholarship to take. Maybe Tim just wants people to focus on the facts and not the people because he is so humble. Such would be a false humility as there is no such thing as neutral facts. We come to the facts with all our presuppositions, paradigms, and worldviews.

Science is a unified, central body or committee of enlightened, rational authoritative collective that inhabits the hallowed halls of academia, all reporting the neutral facts of empirical experience to come to objective conclusions, who then present them matter-of-factly to peers and the public. Nothing could be further from the truth. Scientists are individual humans with desires and worldviews and opinions like the rest of us—and some of them have an agenda. 

https://jaysanalysis.com/2014/06/17/the-cult-of-scientism-and-nikola-teslas-aether/

Tim is not merely presenting naked facts. He is interpreting them according to his own worldview and agenda. So are his teammates. I have shown in previous posts how he has done this by cherry picking his sources taking what fits his thesis and tossing anything that does not. The God Culture owes it to their viewers, readers, and listeners to tell who is doing the research and what their academic qualifications and religious beliefs are. As I will show in the next post (yes I know I said no more but...) much of their "research" has been copy/pasted from the blog AncientPhilippines.