The God Culture: ChatGPT Refutes TGC's Claim Ancient Filipinos Circumnavigated Africa For Trade

Of all the claims made by Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture the claim that Greeks, Israelites, and Filipinos were trading with one another by circumnavigating Africa is by far the stupidest. There is absolutely no evidence that such a trade network ever existed. Tim makes this claim in his book The Search for King Solomon's treasure but does not even attempt to prove it happened. Years later he created a six-part video series about the subject which, while finally attempting to prove his claim, was ultimately very poor and unconvincing. You can read my examination of that series here:

The God Culture: Did the Ancient Greeks Circumnavigate Africa to Trade With the Philippines?

Since Tim is using A.I. to evaluate his God Culture thesis it only makes sense for ChatGPT to analyze the claim that Filipinos, Greeks, and Israelites were trading with one another by circumnavigating Africa. Because all of Tim's proof for this claim lies buried in six videos it was necessary to extract the subtitle files which I then uploaded to ChatGPT to analyze. Subtitles can be downloaded using any number of websites such as downsub.com. 

After that I had ChatGPT analyze the comments written on Tim's website.

https://thegodculturephilippines.com/did-ancient-filipinos-engage-in-circumnavigational-trade/

Shockingly it gave an analysis which rejected every aspect of Tim's claim. 

Here is the final verdict: 

✅ Final Verdict

The claim that ancient Filipinos engaged in global trade, sailing around Africa and being identified as Ophir or Chryse, is historically unsubstantiated and built on selective readings, misinterpretations, and a lack of credible supporting evidence.

While it's not impossible that the Philippines had regional trade significance (which it did), the leap to global, biblically anchored maritime dominance is not supported by the archaeological, historical, linguistic, or geographical record.

The full chat is posted below.