The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: #38: Tagalog is Derived from Hebrew

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Timothy Jay Schwab's claim that Filipino, especially Tagalog, is derived from Hebrew. As we shall this is just another lie.

We are going to look at Tim's justification for looking for Hebrew words not his linguistics. Tim has two sources he uses to justify his search for Hebrew words in Tagalog. In his video series he says the following:

Solomon's Gold Series - Part 7: Track of the Hebrew to the Philippines. Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish

28:57 Another point raised by Padre Chirino where he even said that it, the Tagalog language,  has the mystery and obscurities of the Hebrew language. So, he even believed that there were similarities between Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, and Hebrew. Steven Levinsohn, a linguist, wrote "At the end of the workshop one mother tongue translator remarked that had he known of the parallels between Philippine languages and Biblical Hebrew he would have found the learning of the latter, Hebrew, much easier. His remark led me to raise the matter with a couple of Seminary professors who teach Hebrew in Manila." Are these professors ignoring all this evidence? 

God Culture Conference with Lisa George & Tim Schwab

37:03 Now we have, uh, videos and in our book we have a whole chapter, uh, where we found, uh, at least I think in our research, at least 500 words that are Tagalog or similar, uh languages in the Philippines. But you look at it and it, it looks to be Hebrew in origin. Uh, when the Spanish came here some of the linguists that came said exactly that. Like Padre Chirino. He said, uh, that the Tagalg language has the Mysteries and obscurities of the Hebrew language because it it looks like Hebrew. Uh, a modern translator came to the Philippines to conduct a conference and he said had he known that Tagalog had such, uh, similarities to the Hebrew language, uh, he would have uh expressed that from the beginning, uh, so that professors would know to teach it, uh, in that regard with that as a foundation because when you connect the two languages you start to realize, uh, it's actually very easy for a Tagalog speaker to pick up Hebrew because they have you know, uh, several words in their language that are already uh of Hebrew origin very likely.

Tim's claim is that Padre Chirino and Stephen Levinsohn said there were similarities between Hebrew and Tagalog because they share similar words. Some Taglog words are Hebrew in origin! That is a blatant lie. Neither of those men said such a thing. 

Let's look at Padre Chirino first. Tim's source for Chirino is not Chirino but a historian named Dr. D.P. Barrows. 

The Search For King Solomon's Treasure Sourcebook, pg. 166

This is more of Tim's bad research. Rather than look at what Padre Chirino actually wrote he is content to cite a secondary source. And he does not even give the full citation where Chirino says there are similarities with Tagalog in Greek, Latin, and Spanish as well as Hebrew. These similarities are not because they share words but are due to the similarities in the structure of each language. 

Padre Chrino's full comments on the languages of the Philippines can be found in The Philippine Islands volume 12, page 235. They are reprinted here in full.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.afk2830.0001.012&seq=239&q1=hebrew

There is no single or general language of the Filipinas extending throughout the islands; but all of them, though there are many and different tongues, are so much alike that they may be learned and spoken in a short time. Consequently if one is learned, all are almost known. They are to each other like the Tuscan, Lombard, and Sicilian dialects of Italia, or the Castilian, Portuguese, and Galician in Espafia. Only the language of the Negrillos is very different from the rest, as, in Espafia, is the Vizcayan [i.e., Basque]. There is not a different language for each of the islands, because some of them - as, for example, Manila, and even Panai, which is more than four hundred leguas smaller - contain several languages; and there are languages each of which prevails in several islands. In the island of Manila alone, there are six different tongues; in Panai, two; in some others, but one. The languages most used, and most widely spread, are the Tagal and the Bisayan; and in some regions of the Pintados another tongue is also prevalent, called Harayan. The Tagal embraces the greater part of the coast and interior of the islands of Manila, Mindoro, Luban, and some others. Bisaya is in use through all the islands of the Pintados, although in some of the villages therein the Harayan is spoken. Of all these languages, it was the Tagal which most pleased me and which I most admired. As I told the first bishop, and, afterwards, other persons of dignity in the islands and in Europe, I found in this language four qualities of the four greatest languages of the world, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Spanish: it has the abstruseness and obscurity of the Hebrew; the articles and distinctions in proper as well as in common nouns, of the Greek; the fulness and elegance of the Latin; and the refinement, polish, and courtesy of the Spanish. Examples of all these characteristics may be seen in the " Ave Maria" done into Tagal; and, as that is a short prayer, and more easily understood than the others, I will place it here with its explanation in our vernacular, and with word-forword equivalents. In this way may be seen the idioms and characteristic expressions of this language which will please some readers, and furnish information, both useful and curious.

The "Ave Maria" in the Tagal language 

Aba Guinoo Maria matoa ca na. 

Hail Lady Mary, joyful thou now, 

Napono ca nan gracia, 

full thou of grace; 

An Panguinoon Dios na saio. 

the Lord God is with thee 

Bucor can pinagpala sa babain lahat. 

especially, thou blessed among women all. 

Pinagpalat naman ang iong anac si Jesus. 

Blessed also he thy son Jesus. 

Santa Maria ina nang Dios 

Holy Mary, mother of God, 

Ipana languin mo cami macasalanan 

Let us be interceded for by thee, us sinners 

igayon at cum mamatai cami. 

Amen, Jesus. now and when shall die we. 

The first word of this prayer ABA, is obscure, but apparently has the force of " salute," like the Latin Ave. Bucor expresses diversity, distinction, and singularity. The article is Si (Jesus), as TON in Greek. The richness of the language lies in its many synonyms and phrases; consequently this prayer, which, as it stands, is very elegant, could be formed with equal elegance in various other ways, without losing its original sense and meaning. The polish and courtesy consist in not saying, as in Latin, Ave Maria (which would seem in this language abrupt and barbaric), without adding that polite word, Guinoo. 

There is none or very little of this courtesy in the other two languages of the Bissayas, which are more rude and unpolished. I thought it good to present the same prayer in these languages, not only as a curiosity, but to give an idea of their similarity and differences-giving notice, however, that it is not my intention to offer an interpretation (which is unnecessary, since we all know the " Ave Maria "), but, as I said, to show the idioms of these languages. These idioms, moreover, ought not to displease or appear ignoble, for every tongue has its own beauty and elegance for those who are born in it, which the eyes of foreigners cannot discern. This point has been discussed by Jesus Sidrac in the prologue to his Ecclesiasticus, a holy and Catholic work; and it was proved at length, and with great erudition, by the most glorious doctor St. Jerome, in the hundred and first Epistle to Pamaquio. 

The "Ave Maria " in the Harayan tongue 

Maliag cao Maria nabota cao can gracia 

Rejoice thou Mary, full thou of grace. 

An atun guinoon Dios dian canimo. 

He our Lord God is with thee, 

Capin icao sa mafga babai nga tanan, 

fortunate thou among women all; 

ig capin naman ang imon bata nga si Jesus. 

and fortunate also he thy son Jesus. 

Santa Maria inang can Dios 

[Holy Mary], mother of God, 

igampo mo cami nga macasasala 

let us be favored by thee, us the sinners, 

caraon, ig cum mamatai cami. 

now and when shall die we. Amen, Jesus. 

The " Ave Maria " in the Bissayan tongue 

Maghimaya ca Maria napon ca sa gracia 

Rejoice, thou Mary, full of grace 

An guinoon Dios anaa can 

the Lord God is with thee 

Guirayeg ca uyamot sa babihun tana 

Exalted thou much among women all, 

ug guirayeg man an imon sanc Jesus 

and exalted also he thy son Jesus 

Santa Maria inahan sa Dios, 

Holy Mary, mother of God,  

iguiampo mo cami macasasala oñia 

let us be interceded for by thee, us sinners, now 

ug sa amun camatai. Amen, Jesus. 

and in our death. 

It has been my object in giving this slight illustration of the difference between these three languages aside from its singularity and novelty, which may furnish some pleasure - to make evident the ease and clearness of the languages and their words and pronunciations, which render them very easy, or at least not difficult to learn. Some of their idioms and transpositions, which are different from our own, must be accepted as they stand, as Father Joseph de Acosta says very well when writing on this matter, (De procur. sal. lib. 4, cap. 9.); but if they are once acquired, and one is accustomed to the sound of them, they do not render the language difficult, but rather make it easy and graceful. But since I have mentioned the courtesy and politeness of the Tagalos, and of their tongue, it will be well, before proceeding further, to speak more at length concerning it, for it is so noble and pleasing a moral virtue. Of the civilities, terms of courtesy, and good breeding among the Filipinos.

Chirino does not simply wax eloquent about Tagalog but compares translations of the Ave Maria in Taglog, Harayan, and Bisayan, showing the differences between all three languages. He calls the latter two languages "rude and unpolished." There is absolutely nothing here about Tagalog sharing Hebrew words or being derived from Hebrew. 

The same can be said for Stephen Levinsohn who also notes similarities between Taglog and Hebrew. 

The Search For King Solomon's Treasure Sourcebook, pg. 167

The similarities between Tagalog and Hebrew have to do with the construction of the language. Namely, the Verb/Subject/Object order. 

https://scholars.sil.org/sites/scholars/files/stephen_h_levinsohn/papers/contextualisedhebrewteaching.pdf

 

Here we see there are similarities between Tagalog, Hebrew, Greek, and Mexican. Is Taglog derived from Mexican or Koiné Greek? English and Chinese also have a similar Subject/Verb/Object ordering. Is English derived from Chinese? Obviously not. 

Levinsohn's point is that Taglog and Hebrew share a similar construction not that they share words or a common origin. 

Now, it is true Tim has not said the exact phrase, "Tagalog is derived from Hebrew" but that is his contention. He has a whole section in his book the Search for King Solomon's Treasure where he pretends to find residual Hebrew words in Tagalog and other Filipino languages. None of them make any sense. His method is to throw so much at the reader that they are overwhelmed. 

The Search of King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 176

As the map opposite illustrates, there is aptitude for Hebrew all over the Philippines. The list is far larger and we could publish an entire book just on the Hebrew influences in Tagalog and other Philippine languages We are not requesting the reader agree with every one of these references and interpretations but there are far too many that are direct letter for letter calibrations that one simply cannot ignore especially in lieu of the overwhelming evidence this research has already achieved. Our point is to continue to go deeper and inundate critics with too much corroboration to even consider an alternative opinion. 

Tim thinks he can throw a bunch of nonsense at people to overwhelm them so much that they can consider no alternative opinion to his claim Tagalog is derived from Hebrew. That is not how an honest researcher works. Why does he say the reader does not have to agree with him if he is telling the truth? That is the hallmark of a charlatan and a liar. 

However, if one looks closer at Tim's sources it is quite apparent that Taglog and other Filipino languages do not derive from Hebrew. That is simply one more lie about the Philippines being taught by Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: #37: Jose Rizal Thought the Philippines Was the Garden of Eden

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concern Timothy Jay Schwab's claim Dr. Jose Rizal thought the Philippines was the Garden of Eden. 

This claims shows up in his videos.

Solomon's Gold Series - Part 12E: Garden of Eden, Mount of the East Found: Ophir, Philippines

11:22 Another viewer sent us this poem from Jose Rizal "My Last Farewell" written on the eve of his execution in 1896. We show it in its original form in Spanish as well as in English and Tagalog of course we'll read it in English because that's all we really know. "Farewell my adored land, region of the Sun caressed." Imagine that there we go with the Sun reference again. "Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost. With gladness I give you my life sad and repressed and were it more brilliant, more fresh, and at its best I would still give it to you for your welfare at most." So, not only is bdellium, pearl, found in the Philippines and the most significant in size but the land is even called the Pearl of the Orient. Hmm sounds like Havilah to me. Could it be? Of course it is. "Our Eden lost." So, Rizal knew that the Philippines was Ophir which we covered before according to his writings and he also knew it was the Garden of Eden. Yeah this could be a reference that anyone could make to any country their Eden blah, blah, blah, blah, yeah that's possible. However, we think this actually could be very telling because this man knew something. And by the way who lost Eden though? Actually Adam did. Fascinating.

100 Clues #13: Philippines Is The Ancient Land of PEARL: Havilah - Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish

8:09 The funny thing is even long before these large pearls were produced and then recorded Dr. Jose Rizal in 1896 wrote a poem identifying the Philippines as the Pearl of the Orient. Almost seems like he kind of knew something, huh? Well, you will find his contemporary professor Blumentritt writes that Rizal believed the Philippines was Ophir in fact and he did as well even in 1891.

This claim also shows up in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure. 

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 296

Did Dr. Jose Rizal know more about the Philippines than we are told? On the eve of his execution, he wrote this poem in which he referred to the Philippines as the “region of the sun” which is important in identifying the land of Chryse/Ophir, “Pearl of the Orient Sea” which is crucial in revealing the land of Ancient Havilah next to the Garden of Eden and “our Eden lost” as if he knew this was in fact the long lost location of the Garden of Eden perhaps.

One must wonder if Rizal had other writings which may have been smuggled out of his prison of exile but no such speculation is needed to locate the Garden of Eden which has actually been recorded since very ancient times and exact directions even. We will delve into this realm though we were hesitant at first. Can we really find the Garden of Eden in the Philippines?

In one of his videos Tim says he previously covered writings where Dr. Rizal "knew the Philippines was Ophir." While they get a passing glance he does not cover those writings in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure in any meaningful way so they must not be very important.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pg 102

Even in 1890, Philippine Former Prime Minister Pedro A. Paterno recorded Ophir as the Philippines and many allude Professor Fernando Blumentritt, contemporary and friend of Dr. Jose Rizal, knew as well.

However, Rizal's poem is very important. Tim even uses it in his conferences. 

So, what does this poem mean? Is Dr. Jose Rizal actually calling the Philippines the Garden of Eden? Of course not. It's a poem. It's the last poem he ever wrote before facing the firing squad.

It's not a geography lesson or a history course. It's 14 stanzas of thoughts about his country, the Philippines. Funny that Tim does not talk about the other stanzas or even attempt to relate the actual message of the poem. Instead he latches onto the phrases "pearl of the orient" and "our Eden lost" and says, "Oh, look see Rizal thought the Philippines was the Garden of Eden!"

In the fourth stanza Rizal writes:

My dreams, when scarcely a lad adolescent, 

My dreams when already a youth, full of vigor to attain, 

Were to see you, Gem of the Sea of the Orient, 

Your dark eyes dry, smooth brow held to a high plane,

Without frown, without wrinkles and of shame without stain.

According to Tim that would mean Rizal is not being poetic but is talking about the many precious gem stones that are to be found in the Philippines. Likewise in the 13th stanza Rizal writes:

My idolized Country, for whom I most gravely pine, 

Dear Philippines, to my last goodbye, oh, harken 

There I leave all: my parents, loves of mine, 

I'll go where there are no slaves, tyrants or hangmen 

Where faith does not kill and where God alone does reign.

Oh no! Is the Philippines now an idol to be worshipped? If we follow Tim's literal approach that is what we would have to say. 

Dr. Jose Rizal was not the first to call the Philippines Pearl of the Orient. Fr. Juan P. Delgado in his book Historia de Filipinas can claim that honor.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002101076g&seq=47&q1=perla

In a short time the name of Nueva Castilla was forgotten and that of Manila prevailed by the election of the same Adelantado; for in this place he founded the city, which he spoke of as being the court and pearl of the East.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002101076g&seq=97&q1=perla

Having described the island of Luzon, with all the provinces it contains, only the city of Manila, capital and court of the Philippines, remains before beginning the description of the other islands in particular. Because although it has already been outlined by other erudite pens, as all things have their beginnings, increases and decline, so has this capital, subject to changes, like other human things. In times past, according to the ancient historians, when trade with Japan flourished, Manila was the wonder and pearl of the East, as well in its neighborhood, as in buildings and riches, which, in exchange for the goods of the land, came in abundance; Now it can be said that it is only a canal, because there remains in it only the sign of the great deal of silver that comes from Spain having passed to other kingdoms, enriching them with it, without anything remaining in Manila but the sound that attracts the neighbors, bloodsuckers, Moors and heretics of Batavia to sweep it, leaving in it the infinite poverty and misery that its inhabitants experience, except for one or another neighbor who has some wealth, which, in these times, are counted.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002101076g&seq=281&q1=perla

Having already written elsewhere about the material nature of the city of Manila, we will put in this chapter its formal aspects, in which it can compete with the most famous in Europe. It is located in the best, most pleasant, leafy and abundant site of the island of Luzon, head and core of the Philippine Archipelago. It very justly deserves the name of pearl of the east, a distinguished and very loyal city; and as such, it enjoys all the honors, franchises and privileges of those who are heads of kingdom, granted by our Catholic kings in the decrees of November 19, 1595, and March 20, 1596, in the latter of which it was granted a particular coat of arms.

Each one of these mentions of the Pearl of the East is a reference to the City of Manila and not the entire nation and has nothing to do with actual pearls. Very obviously Rizal has taken this sobriquet and applied it to the nation as a whole. For Rizal the Philippines, his homeland, is beautiful and precious above all else. 

In 1911 The Manila Merchants Association published a pamphlet titled "The Philippines, Treasure House of the Tropics, Manila, Pearl of the Orient."

Are they claiming the Philippines is Ophir and the Garden of Eden by calling Manila Pearl of the Orient? No, they are indicating the beauty of the city. The point is Pearl of the Orient is a common name applied to the Philippines and has to do with the beauty of the nation and not its status as Ophir or The Garden of Eden.  

Tim's claim that Dr. Jose Rizal thought the Philippines was the Garden of Eden based on this poem is total nonsense and wrests it from its true meaning. It is simply one more lie about the Philippines being taught by Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: #36: Adam Sacrificed Philippine Gold as an Atonement

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Tim's claim that God is sentimental for Philippine gold.

Tim says this twice in his videos. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5zxlXysIk&t=5513s

47:27 This gold of Ophir was the fine gold or pure gold of that day not because it was necessarily of higher quality than other gold but because it had meaning to Yahuah from Adam's very first sacrifice once exiled from the Garden of Eden. It mattered then and it still matters now

The Estate of Adam: Solomon's Gold 2i. 100 Clues#50.

48:50 See this resource matters all the way to the end because it is sentimental to Yahuah God. Why is this so important? Well Yahuah certainly is sentimental. Adam used the gold of Havilah the land of Eve where he lived. Which became known as Ophir,  Sheba, and Tarshish after the flood. Which is now known as the Philippines in modern times or the same pattern of three Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao: Ophir,  Sheba, Tarshish.

Tim reiterates this claim in his book The Search for King Solomon's Treasure.

The Search For King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 71

This is the Genesis 2 gold Adam used in the first sacrifice of atonement when exiled from the Garden. It is precious to Yahuah and this is why Solomon knew to fetch it for the Temple project from this primordial estate.

Tim says God places a sentimental value on the gold of the Philippines, Ophir, because Adam placed it in a cave as an atonement. Where are we told in the Bible God is sentimental and places value on gold or any other commodity? The Bible certainly never says or indicates or infers such a thing. To say something like this is to turn God into a man with human emotions. Only one who has no idea who God is could say a thing like this. Of course Tim's denial of the Trinity saying the Holy Spirit is likely a creation along with his denial of the eternal sonship of Jesus Christ means he has no idea who God is. 

Where does Tim get the idea Adam sacrificed gold to God as an atonement? Not from the Bible. From The Cave of Treasures.

The Estate of Adam: Solomon's Gold 2i. 100 Clues#50.

16:22 We found a source a bit more specific and this is amazing as Adam actually offered gold, frankincense, and myrrh on that day in the first atonement sacrifice to Yahuah. This is why these have so much value. It's not about money.

Tim mentions The Cave of Treasures several times in his book The Search for  Solomon's Treasure. He calls it a historic source.

The Search For King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 79

There are historic sources..

Then he admits The Cave of Treasures is NOT SCRIPTURE.

The Search for King Solomon's Treasure, pgs. 97-98

Finally, there is a book called the Cave of Treasures that we do not use as and reject as scripture but we glean a fact from. It actually makes the claim that upon leaving the Garden of Eden which means Adam was in Havilah, Philippines, he was able to find gold on the sides of the Mount of the East where he then made the first sacrifice of atonement.

The Search For King Solomon's Treasure, pg. 303

We will use an historic reference outside of the Bible to further support this not for scripture but geography to better understand. This is not scripture. 

Adam offered the first atonement and there is no passage to indicate he ever sinned again in his entire 930 years. He retrieved gold, frankincense and myrrh from the sides of the mountain meaning they grow there natively and all three are native to the Philippines.

What exactly is The Cave of Treasures?

The Cave of Treasures, sometimes referred to simply as The Treasure, is an apocryphal and pseudoepigraphical work, that contains various narratives related to the Christian Bible. It was written in the Syriac language, approximately at the end of the 6th, or at the beginning of the 7th century. Its authorship was traditionally attributed to Ephrem of Edessa (d. 373), but modern scholarly analyses have shown that the true author was some other person, who also lived in Upper Mesopotamia, but much later (c. 600).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Treasures

It is an apocryphal book full of fictitious stories that Tim does not understand and which he misquotes. Adam does indeed place gold, myrrh, and frankincense inside a cave but the reason is not to atone for his sins. It is a kind of prerequisite for sleeping with his wife. 

Now Adam and Eve were virgins, and Adam wished to know Eve his wife. And Adam took from the skirts of the mountain of Paradise, gold, and myrrh, and frankincense, and he placed them in the cave, and he blessed the cave, and consecrated it that it might be the house of prayer for himself and his sons

So Adam and Eve went down from that holy mountain [of Eden] to the slopes which were below it, and there Adam knew Eve his wife. 

https://sacred-texts.com/chr/bct/bct04.htm

Those bolded parts are not quoted by Tim. He purposely omits them. That is kind of odd seeing as the whole paragraph shows up highlighted in his sourcebook.

Solomon's Treasure Sourcebook, pg. 91

According to The Cave of Treasures the three Magi retrieved those treasures to give to Christ. 

And straightway, according to what they had received from the tradition which had been handed down to them by their fathers, they left the East, and went up to the mountains of Nôdh, which lie inside the entrances to the East from the lands on the skirts of the North, and they took from them gold, and myrrh, and frankincense.

https://sacred-texts.com/chr/bct/bct09.htm

The book is called the Cave of Treasures because the cave in which the gold, myrrh, and frankincense were placed connects Adam and Christ. That is the framework for the entire book.

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, pg. 531

Cave of treasures essentially takes Its name from a awe near paradise in which Adam is said to have deposited a number of items taken from paradise. These are called Treasures and later on will be carried by the magi to Bethlehem in order to be presented to the new-born Christ. This basic plot serves the author to construct a panoramic view of Christian salvation history spanning from creation to Pentecost. 

The narration therefore starts in the same way as the first book of the Bible, describing the creation-week in tabular form, and then passes on to a lengthy account of Adam and Eve's creation and stay in paradise, their temptation, fall, expulsion and settlement at the outskirts of paradise, where the Cave of Treasures is introduced for the first time. On occasion of their first sexual act Adam and Eve deposit within the cave gold, myrrh and incense, that is, those items which were presented to Christ by the magi according to the Gospel narrative.

The gold, frankincense, and myrrh have nothing to do with an atonement sacrifice nor is it called or even alluded to as such. Tim is fundamentally wrong.

Timothy Jay Schwab's foundational story as to why the gold of the Philippines is Biblically important has no basis in fact. Not even according to his source The Cave of Treasures did Adam sacrifice gold as an atonement. It is simply one more lie about the Philippines being taught by Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture.

The God Culture: Davao Conferences 2024

In June and September 2024 Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture hosted two conferences in Davao. The theme of the September conference was Restore the Philippines while the theme of the June conference was The Philippines in the Bible Before Magellan. 

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1002107015258816&set=pb.100063785813165.-2207520000&type=3

The Big Conference Is Back!!! The God Culture will return to the U.S.E.P. Sports Dome in Davao City for a crowd of more than 5,000 in a deeper 2-day conference this time. This is an experience every viewer should experience if they can. There will be a live feed we will announce close to the event. Registration details to follow in the next post. This event is open for viewers and readers as well but will fill up quickly so don't miss your chance to participate if you can. We hope to see you there. Registration Link to follow. Yah Bless.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=982000760602775&id=100063785813165

We are getting ready for the 3-Day Conference starting tonight in Davao. Here is the updated venue info and for those wishing to join the live broadcast, here is the link to register:

PRIVATE ZOOM LINK FOR THE GOD CULTURE CONFERENCE:

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.

When: Jun 27, 2024

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZMkdeusqTMpG9EtcX5WuncYkzY2p...

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Yah Bless.

For the September conference, as far as I am aware, there was no live feed link. The June conference required one to sign up with Zoom and at least one person encountered problems. 

We are now in the year 2024. Facebook has been hosting livestreams since 2015, nearly a whole decade. Everybody in the Philippines uses Facebook. What is so difficult about hosting a Facebook livestream? Everybody does it. Why couldn't the organizations Tim partnered with do it? If not a livestream why not post the video after the fact?

As of today there has been a grand total of about 3 minutes of footage released from these conferences.  Why not release the entire conference? Is it not important? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lke3lX96Nek

Wow!!! Every Filipino Should Know This! 

Really? If this information is so important that every Filipino should know it why keep it hidden? Why not release the tapes?

Apparently they were hacked!

@ruthgroot1650 Brother Timothy and sister Anna how can I viewed your conference shall I send my e-mail?Yah bless to everyone...

@TheGodCulture Hacking made this difficult so we do not have the full conference to share this time. Yah Bless. 

Sorry but I'm not buying it. There are video clips and pictures of the conference on the Facebook page of Christ the Healer International Missions Movement who hosted this conference. How could it have been hacked when it wasn't even live? Was the June conference also hacked? What about the conferences in 2023? Were they hacked as well? It's nonsense. 

Tim wants people to buy his books and watch his videos. Take a look at the following exchange in the comments of this video.

@MrFunNightcore Which verse in Ezekiel and Isaiah is that nation mentioned?

@TheGodCulture You are far behind. Watch Solomon's Gold Series. You can also attend a conference and read our books. You many not want to advertise your ignorance publicly however. Yah Bless.

This commenter asks which verses in Ezekiel and Isaiah mention the Philippines. Several other commenters give the answer, which is wrong of course because the Philippines is not mentioned in the Bible. But at least they offered a real answer. Tim, instead of answering the guy says he is far behind, needs to watch his videos, read his books, or attend a conference, and calls him ignorant. 

What kind of teacher does that? 

Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture has managed to pass himself off as a latter day prophet to the Philippines and has travelled the nation preaching his nonsense to very eager and gullible crowds. He knows he has an audience and he knows they want to hear what he has to say. Yet he continually castigates them and refuses to broadcast his conferences so every Filipino can learn what he thinks they need to know. Why? Perhaps something else is happening behind the scenes. 

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #35: Cosmas Indicopleustes Mapped The Garden of Eden in the Philippines

Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Tim's claim 6th century monk Cosmas Indicopleustes mapped the Garden of Eden in the Philippines. 

This claim is so important Tim mentions it in the introduction to every video in his Garden of Eden Revealed series.

Announcing! Garden Of Eden Revealed: The Book of Maps

0:31 And in 550 Cosmos the Greek Monk and Merchant traveler who went to the Indies wrote in Alexandria Egypt Africa Christian topography and he mapped Paradise as the Philippines in the Greek edition of The Bible at one time 

This claim also appears in his book Garden of Eden Revealed: The Book of Maps.

The Bible once included an accurate map to the Garden of Eden in the Philippines! Cosmas' map on the earth once appeared in the Codex Sinaiticus Graecus 1186, Fol. 66v now at St. Katherine's Monastery, Sinai.

How Far East? Cosmos left a map once in the Vatican bible!

This claim is simply not true. 

Codex Sinaiticus Graecus 1186 and Vaticanus graecus 699 which contain the text of Christian Topography are not Bibles. They only contain the text of Cosmas and nothing else. 

Since several differences between the codices, in which the Christian Topography is extant, have been mentioned, a few words should be written about the nature of these manuscripts. The oldest of them is the Vaticanus graecus 699. It was written in uncial characters in the ninth century at Constantinople; it is currently kept at the Vatican library. It only contains books 1 to 10.

The other two extant codices are both from the eleventh century. The Sinaiticus graecus 1186 was written in Byzantine minuscules, probably in Cappadocia, and is now located in the library of St. Katherine’s monastery on the Sinai Peninsula. Of the three this codex is the best preserved  and contains books 1 to 12.

The Laurentianus Plut. IX. 28, also in minuscules, was probably written at Iviron monastery on Mount Athos and is now at the Laurentian library at Florence. Like the Sinaiticus, it contains books 1 to 12.

All three manuscripts provide us with a set of beautiful illustrations. Since these sets of drawings are very similar in all three codices, it is evident that they have been copied from a common source. In many instances the illustrations are alluded to in the text, so it is very probable that even the first edition was embellished with them—whether by Cosmas himself or by somebody at his request cannot be determined and is irrelevant.

https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/transcultural/article/view/6127/2962

Not only is there no map of Cosmas in any Christian Bible but he also does not place the Garden of Eden in the Philippines. Cosmas does not believe the Garden of Eden is on the earth but is beyond the ocean on another earth. He says this several times. 

We have said that the figure of the earth is lengthwise from east to west, and breadthwise from north to south, and that it is divided into two parts : this part which we, the men of the present day, inhabit, and which is all round encircled by the intermedial sea, called the ocean by the Pagans, and that part which encircles the ocean, and has its extremities bound together with those of the heaven, and which men at one time inhabited to eastward, before the flood in the days of Noah occurred, and in which also Paradise is situated. Men, strange to say, having crossed the ocean in the Ark at the time of the Deluge, reached our part of the earth and settled in Persian territory, where also the Ark rested on the mountains of Ararat, having saved alive Noah and his sons, together with their wives, so that there were four pairs, and all the brute animals, three pairs of clean, but of wild only one poor pair.

Christian Topography, pgs. 33-34

Yet if Paradise did exist in this earth of ours, many a man among those who are keen to know and enquire into all kinds of subjects, would think he could not be too quick in getting there 

Christian Topography, pg. 47

The table itself is a type of the earth, and the loaves signify its fruits, and being twelve they are symbolic of the twelve months of the annual cycle. The four corners of the table signify the four tropics of the year, one occurring every three months ; the waved border with which it is wreathed all round signifies the entire sea, or the ocean, as it is called by the pagans ; and the crown which is round it indicates the earth that lies beyond the ocean where Paradise is.

Christian Topography, pg. 152

It cannot be any clearer that Cosmas thought the Garden of Eden was not on our earth and thus inaccessible. He absolutely did not chart it in the Philippines. Take a look at his map.

The Garden of Eden is the long rectangle to the right of the map separate from everywhere else. Cosmas does not locate The Garden of Eden on our earth but beyond the ocean on another earth.

Tim might reply that Cosmas may have gotten it wrong but he was right about Paradise being in the East and it was a gradual progression of learning about these locales that culminated in the voyage of Magellan. But that is wrong because Cosmas' cosmology is intimately tied to his explanation of the Bible, specifically the make-up of the tabernacle and its accoutrements. Paradise is beyond the ocean and not on our earth. To interpret the text otherwise is to misunderstand, misinterpret, and not take seriously what Cosmas has written. 

The claim that  Cosmas Indicopleustes mapped the Garden of Eden in the Philippines is one more lie  Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture teaches about the Philippines.