The God Culture: We Didn't Edit Our Youtube Videos

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture really hates my article about his dishonestly edited videos. He is insistent that his research is transparent and full of integrity. He wants his audience to know he didn't edit any videos. 

Claims that we "edited" YouTube videos are factually false. YouTube does not allow post-upload editing; all updates were re-uploads with new URLs and proper clarification notes. This is standard practice—not deception.

https://thegodculturephilippines.com/galv%C3%A3o-s-maritime-flow-the-true-geography-of-ophir-lequios-and-japon%C3%AAs/

"Factually false?" Really? What does Tim call this:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLru2qbCMGOi5gq1FV4RlgEAKP7WRCLca9

Three of the video titles say "Edited."

Tim says:

YouTube does not allow post-upload editing

I didn't claim he edited them on YouTube. That is a straw man argument. Also, YouTube DOES allow editing of already uploaded videos. 

Then Tim says:

all updates were re-uploads with new URLs and proper clarification notes.

That's called editing your videos. In fact the titles, which Tim wrote, say they have been edited. 

Of course it's not deceptive to edit your videos or your books or your blogs. I have to correct spelling errors from time to time. The reason I say Tim's videos are dishonestly edited is because he changed the slides without changing the audio. That means one video has Tim's voice confirming the authenticity of Greek Armor being found in Mindanao while the slide says "confirmation pending." 

original slide

100 Clues #2: Philippines Is The Ancient Land of Gold: Gold Found - Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish. Edited. 

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.

The dishonesty is evident when Tim's audio declares this armor "indisputably Greek," yet the screen presents a contradictory message. This type of misleading edit is not an isolated incident. The original blog post linked above details further instances of his videos being dishonestly edited.

This video is still posted which makes Tim's statement that he has distanced himself from the Greek armor meaningless. 

Genuine scholars update and refine without erasing prior discussion—standard academic practice seen across newspapers, journals, and research institutions.

In contrast, an anonymous blogger has accused us of "dishonesty" for doing exactly what responsible researchers are supposed to do. He even rehashes a four-year-old video on the so-called "Greek armor"—a claim we publicly distanced from years ago after responsibly investigating it.

https://thegodculturephilippines.com/galvão-s-maritime-flow-the-true-geography-of-ophir-lequios-and-japonês/

If he actually wanted to distance himself from "the so-called "Greek armor" he would delete the video. If he really thinks the armor is fake or questionable then he should delete the video. Adding a note to the screen while the audio claims the armor is "indisputably Greek" is not an update or a refinement, it's a contradiction. It is also not true that "newspapers, journals, and research institutions" do not retract statements. They do it all the time especially when the information is false. The Greek armor is false, the video needs to go. This is not a small error like a misspelling or getting a date wrong. The claim about "indisputably Greek" armor being found in Mindanao is fundamentally unhistorical, misleading, and untrue. 

In fact, the reason I brought this subject up again is because Tim was asked about it by a viewer.

Lost Isles of Gold LIVE Series - Part 12: Hebrew in the Philippines? 

@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." Yet, Tim's video declaring the armor to be "indisputably Greek" remains up to deceive anyone who watches it.

It defies logic for Tim to say 

Claims that we "edited" YouTube videos are factually false

when the very titles of his videos clearly state "Edited." It's simply lie after lie from Timothy Jay Schwab.

Will he ever tell the truth?