The God Culture: Flip Flopping Claims About Greek Armor In Mindanao

Way back in 2019 Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture published a video that included a claim about anceint Greek armour being unearthed in Mindanao. Oddly enough that claim did not show up in his book The Search For King Solomon's Treasure. The reason why it was omitted has now been revealed by Tim. 

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@kkruz Just saw this history. Ancient Greek Armour found in Mindanao. Grabe indeed.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqJ_rPHfSyU

@TheGodCulture We covered that long ago even visiting the hotel museum which housed it. Though the find seems authentic, there has been little done to preserve the find and report it properly unfortunately. Thus, we dropped it from our book, and did not cover it any further. We still get ridiculed even though we did the right things. That does not mean it is not true as it may well be as it certainly makes sense. It just means those who discovered it did not keep their records opening the find up to scrutiny. Scrutiny is not disproof, and many times proves to be mere scoffing, but that is the method of academia today, which has become a Pharisee realm in thinking. 

Also, the channel that first reported this find, has proven to lead in propaganda to China and Russia as the supreme authority to the Philippines, which is just a propaganda vlog. They take the finding of Chinese pottery in ancient times to mean China came to the Philippines, when Chinese records document Filipinos and Austronesians arriving there and nto the other way around. They even take the Japtheth's son Javan who is well documented as the founder of Greece, or Ioanan (Iwan or Javan, even named for him), as founding China which is in Shem's territory, not Japheth's. Careful with that group they backload to China in propaganda. Yah Bless.

A commenter alerted Tim to the original video posted by Kasaysayan Hunters about Greek armor being found in Mindanao. Tim says he covered that video long ago but dropped the claim from his book because "there has been little done to preserve the find and report it properly" and  "those who discovered it did not keep their records opening the find up to scrutiny." 

That is kind of an odd sentence. Tim is lamenting both that records were not properly kept and that as a result the find has been opened up to scrutiny. Does that mean if records were kept the armor would not be open to scrutiny? What exactly is the problem with "opening up the find to scrutiny?" 

Tim doesn't seem to think much of academic vetting, writing "scrutiny is not disproof and many times proves to be mere scoffing."  Is Tim really unaware of the magnitude of what it would mean to find actual genuine ancient Greek armor in the Philippines? That would change everything we know about world history. Such a claim must be scrutinized to the utmost to ensure it is not a hoax. But Tim shrugs that off as "Pharisee thinking." According to Tim, the proper way to do things is to make a claim and accuse anyone who dares examine it of committing slander, defamation, and libel.

He goes on to say "That does not mean it is not true as it may well be as it certainly makes sense" which undoubtedly means he believes the armor is genuine. After all, he teaches that Greeks were trading with the Philippines by circumnavigating Africa for nearly a thousand years between 800 B.C. and the beginning of current era. He needs this find to be true. 

Tim also says, "We still get ridiculed even though we did the right things." What are those right things? Dropping it from the book because he could not verify it? Yet the claim is still embedded in TWO VIDEOS which he has not deleted or edited. Those videos can be viewed here and here. The first is in English and the second is in Tagalog. Is he going to do the "right thing" and delete or edit those videos in which he unambiguously decalres this armor to be "indisputiably Greek?"

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13:27 I know someone's thinking if the Greeks came to the Philippines there would have to be archaeology to prove it. I mean come on. Oh, so glad you asked.

When we visited Butuan, Philippines in May we were actually able to see this Greek armor which was found in 2018 in the Philippines. The thing is these are indisputably Greek from the symbols and the structure and they are dated all the way back to 800 B.C. up to about 480 B.C. 

So, here we go, full circle. History, a map and, archeology all agree to support this, not as speculation, but as fact. Proven.

Until Tim deletes or edits these videos it must be assumed he still believes this armor is "indisputably Greek" and is proof that "Greeks came to the Philippines." Dropping it from his book is a mere diversion while this claim remains on his Youtube channel. 

After distancing himself from the fraudulent ancient Greek armor Tim disavows the channel from which he got this claim, Kasaysayn Hunters, calling it "a propaganda vlog."

Also, the channel that first reported this find, has proven to lead in propaganda to China and Russia as the supreme authority to the Philippines, which is just a propaganda vlog. 

Is Tim aware the owner of this channel is J.G. Cheock?

https://www.youtube.com/@KasaysayanHunters

Tim has praised this woman in his book The Search For King Solomon's Treausre and in a recent article on his website. 

As we wanted to shout out with a plug to a local Filipino author, we maintained the secondary source, because it remained accurate.

The local author was preferred by our authors because she uncovered that truth, and deserved credit, which we continue to acknowledge.

https://thegodculturephilippines.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-god-culture-understanding-pintos.html

These comments were posted on April 13th, 2025 which as of now is only 15 days ago. His comments disparaging J.G. Cheock and Kasaysayan Hunters were posted 3 weeks ago!

Now, she is a purveyor of propaganda? Will he completely disavow her and remove all reference to her from his book and website? Will he stop relying on her fallacious statements about Fernando Pinto's journal and start citing the actual journal instead? Probably not. Likely he will say, "she is right about Pinto but wrong about everything else and that doesn't matter because truth is truth" or some such ad hoc nonsense. 

Tim says he stills gets ridiculed over this claim which is more than likely a reference to an article I wrote back in 2020 tearing this laughable "archaeological find" apart. Tim later edited his original video adding text to the slide to indicate that confirmation of the find was pending. Here is the original slide compared to the edited version.

original

edit

I have referred to this as a dishonestly edited video because while Tim changed the slide, he did not change the audio. The slide says "confirmation pending" while the audio says, "The thing is these are indisputably Greek from the symbols and the structure and they are dated all the way back to 800 B.C. up to about 480 B.C." and "History, a map and, archeology all agree to support this, not as speculation, but as fact. Proven." This armor cannot both be genuine and yet have its "confirmation pending." Both claims cancel each other out. Hence the dishonesty.

So, what's the point of all this? Well, this only serves to highlight Tim's habit of cherry-picking sources and his ever changing claims. At one time Tim claimed this was genuine Greek armor. Then Tim said confirmation was pending. Then he says the dropped the claim altogether because the find was not properly recorded. Then he calls Kasaysayan Hunters a propaganda vlog despite heaping praise on J.G. Cheock shortly after making that statement. His behavior resembles a single individual retroactively covering tracks rather than a structured academic process of checks and balances. It's madness showing that Timothy Jay Schwab is no real researcher and only reinforces suspicion that there is no God Culture research team.