The God Culture: There Is Only One Sacrament

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture is a regular guest on Zen Garcia's channel and on Lisa George's channel. Most of his talks with Zen and Lisa retread the same old material but once in a while Tim says the darndest things. On the April 10th, 2025 show with Zen Tim says there is only one sacrament. 

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44:13 Tim: They've also added, you know, they have four different kinds of wine where, well, the wine in the Bible is Communion. It's what we call Communion. The Passover event is when Yahusha offered the first Communion. 

Zen: Right. 

Tim: So, that is the wine. And there's only one. There's not four. The Catholic Church has seven sacraments for instance. Well where'd the other six come from because there's only one in the Bible? And it's Pharisee leaven. It, it's how they embellish you know and they expand with leaven. And so anytime we see a narrative like that we we choose to go and defend the Bible, uh, over whatever narrative is being told.

That is quite revealing. 

First of all if Tim does not know why the Catholic Church has seven sacraments it just goes to show what a theologically ignorant person he really is. How can he even speak against their sacramental system if he doesn't understand it? He does all this research about the Philippines and the lost tribes claiming to be restoring lost truths and he has no idea why the Catholic Church has seven sacraments? Maybe he should ask his team.

What does Tim think a sacrament is? He does not say nor has he ever talked about the sacraments before as far as I am aware. Does he know the word sacrament does not appear in the Bible? Tim denies the Trinity, calling it a "doctrine of men," by saying it "is a word that never appears in scripture once."

1:01:48 Then espousing some doctrine of men like Trinity which is a word that never even appears in scripture once. That's why you don't see any videos from us on that. We could care less about the doctrines of men. 

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So, why would he believe there are sacraments?

Second of all Tim says there is only one sacrament in the Bible. Presumably that would be Communion because that is what he is talking about. Did he forget about Baptism?  Of course not. How could he? Baptism, along with Communion, is a very important rite in the New Testament and is commanded by Jesus Christ in the Great Commission. 

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

In fact Paul equates Baptism with circumcision.

Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: 

12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead

Circumcision was the entrance into the Old Covenant whereas Baptism is the entrance into the New Covenant. Tim does not seem to understand that distinction. In Rest: The Case For Sabbath he writes the following. 

Understand circumcision is not genital mutilation as some would mischaracterize. It is a First Fruit Offering of the flesh of a male child. We even find medically, it is beneficial to most. What we don’t find even in the Law of Moses is that circumcision is salvation. It is not. It really is much like baptism in the same sense as it is something one does with their sons at a very early age of 8 days old. Thus the Apostolic leadership had a tough decision to make especially forcing Gentile men to now be circumcised. Ouch! 

They render a very wise decision and Paul abides by it. He is not in the leadership at that time though he was praised by them in this meeting. They send Paul and Barnabas out with this message. Anyone claiming Paul then went against the Apostles in his teaching of circumcision is illiterate of scripture because the message he shared is exactly what they decided. Essentially, the Pharisee emphasis on circumcision was wrong in the first place as it is not salvation and the leadership chose to tell the Gentile men to focus on other issues which just so happen to reinforce the Law of Moses which James taught then and Paul also taught. Again, the Pharisees do not understand the Law of Moses. When they say to keep it, they refer to the legalistic application in which they have expanded. The Apostles did not agree with that but what they never do is say not to keep the Law of Moses. It doesn’t happen and this passage is certainly not saying so as James then, reinforces the Law of Moses. 

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Tim says circumcision is a first fruit offering of the male child, which is not supported by any verse of Scripture, and then says it "is much like baptism in the same sense as it is something one does with their sons at a very early age of 8 days old." That would seem to mean Tim thinks Baptism is a first fruit offering of newborn infant boys, which doesn't make any sense. 

At this point exploring this issue much further is going to be fruitless because Tim has not given a lot of information to work with. As far as I am aware he has never spoken about baptism. The fact is Tim says there is only one sacrament though he does not define what a sacrament is. From the context, it is clear he does not consider baptism to be a sacrament but something else entirely. Moreover since the word sacrament does not appear in the Bible it's a wonder he believes there is even one sacrament. Logical consistency is not his forte.