Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Norbert Link: Is Bigfoot A Descendant of the Giants and Nephilim of the Bible?



Armstrongism has always had the deep seated need to have all the answers to everything.  WCG produced hundreds and hundreds of booklets and official letters on a myriad of topics.  Members were never expected to think for themselves or do their own research.  A more "educated" pseudo-theologian in Pasadena was supposed to determine the official stance on all topics. The various splinter personality cults of Armstrongism still do this to this day.  Most have done nothing more than plagiarized WCG authored material.

Global Church of God's very own man of all knowledge, Norbert Link,  has come out with a statement that there is a possibility that Bigfoot really exists and that it is a descendant of the giants of the Bible or maybe even the nephilim.


We need to note that the Bible does not say that ancient powerful giants—the “heroes of old,” as mentioned in Old Testament times—were totally extinct and that they all died out. We do read that they were “dispossessed’ from areas which they once inhabited, and that they appeared in subsequent times in other areas. Therefore, can we rule out that “giants,” as described in the Bible, could exist today?

Speculation abounds regarding encounters with tall hairy creatures around the world, which are referred to as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the Russian “Abominable” Snowman or Yeti. Many consider these stories as mere fabrications and fairy tales, while others believe that not all of the many independent reports over many centuries (some of them highly reliable) could be simply made up.

Some who believe in the accuracy of at least some of the eye-witness accounts conclude  that they might be “demonic illusions”—but even though some “encounters” might very well be of demonic origin, this could not explain all witness accounts and findings (including unexplained huge footprints, hair samples etc.). Others see in them huge ape-like animals, which could be a distinct possibility. Still others view them as missing links between pre-historic men-like creatures and modern men—a totally wrong idea, as humans did not evolve, and therefore, such missing links did not and do not exist.

Still others view them as fully human—modern representatives of homo sapiens, albeit perhaps in a wild, savage and degenerated state. This is also a distinct possibility. Hunters who had alleged close encounters with Sasquatch reported that they were determined to shoot and kill “the beast,” but refrained from doing so, when they looked into its eyes which were perceived to be “distinctly” human.
 Then they bring in "hairy" Easu to get their biblical point of view across:

One might ask how “hairy” creatures could qualify as humans. Even though the Bible does not specifically say that the ancient GIANTS were hairy, it does include a few examples of “hairy” men. For instance, we read that Esau, when he was born, was “like a hairy garment all over” (Genesis 25:25).

The Pulpit Commentary remarks that literally, it says, “‘all of him as a cloak of hair’… the fur cloak, or hair mantle, forming one notion...  the child's body [was] covered with an unusual quantity of red hair…”

Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible adds: “his body was all over full of hair, which stood as thick as a garment made of hair…”

Esau’s condition did not change when he grew up. In fact, it increased. He is referred to as a “hairy man” (Genesis 27:11). Gill's states that Esau “was covered all over with hair; as with a hairy garment; so he was born, and so he continued, and no doubt his hair increased.” This condition was so severe that his blind father, Isaac, was tricked in believing that Jacob was Esau, when “skins of the kids of the goats” were placed on Jacob’s hands and on the smooth part of his neck, so that Isaac did not recognize Jacob  (Genesis 27:16, 23).

Then he moves on to "werewolves."

In addition, cases are known of people with the so-called “werewolf syndrome” or “hypertrichosis,” who might even pass on their condition to the next generation. One website describes this condition as follows:

“Hypertrichosis is a rare genetic condition that results in extreme hairiness… There is some speculation that Esau, son of Isaac and twin brother of Jacob, may have had hypertrichosis. He was described in the Old Testament as born covered in red hair, and was referred to as a hairy man by his brother as an adult.”

Life Science reported on June 6, 2011, that “Scientists have discovered a genetic mutation responsible for a disorder that causes people to sprout thick hair on their faces and bodies. Hypertrichosis, sometimes called ‘werewolf syndrome,’ is a very rare condition, with fewer than 100 cases documented worldwide. But researchers knew the disorder runs in families, and in 1995 they traced the approximate location of the mutation to a section of the X chromosome (one of the two sex chromosomes) in a Mexican family affected by hypertrichosis.”
Next Norbert wraps it all up with Bigfoot and the ancient legends of the American Indians; whom we all know to be descendants that walked over the land bridge from Canaan and settled here. Or were they part of the lost 12 tribes?  Only Armstrongism feels they need to have the answer.

Based on all of the foregoing evidence, we cannot exclude the possibility that giants exist today. Some of them could even be hairy people. They could be, but would not have to be, descendants of ancient Canaanite giants as described in the Bible. If they were, this would mean that not all of those ancient giants were totally extinct, but that some might have survived and procreated over the centuries and millennia, and that remnants with a hairy genetic disorder —perhaps known as Bigfoot or Yeti— might still live today in remote wilderness areas and in secluded high mountain terrains.

It is interesting to consider that many sightings of Bigfoot or Sasquatch have been reported in North America (California, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho) and Canada (British Columbia), and that these reports include ancient “legends” told by American Indians. Although many American Indians descended from Tiras, a son of Japheth (one of the three sons of Noah), some historians feel that “Native American” tribes might also be, to an extent, descendants of ancient Canaanites who migrated to North America.

In light of the biblical and historical evidence of very tall people as well as hairy people with genetic disorders, including hypertrichosis, which seems to run in families and for which there is still no known cure, it is not totally unreasonable to assume that mighty and powerful human “giants” known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch or Yeti might exist today in fairly inaccessible terrains in different parts of the world.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here's what I would like to know -- can you tell me, Mr. Link?

How many PAID hours did you spend generating this drivel, PAID with money from people behind on their utility bills and eating cheap noodles most nights?

How many meals for homeless people would this labor cost, on you, have paid for?

Byker Bob said...

Is Norbert in reality the missing link? Is he saying that you can trace small groups of hairy giants who have existed throughout history all the way back to the Canaanites? So, if I catch his drift, these small groups are the one true Canaanites, the best known of which is Sasquatch or Yeti? Did they keep the sabbath or wear sabbots? Wasn't Barbara Streisand a Yeti? Oops, just remembered that was Yentl. But, Yentls wore sabbots and kept the sabbath.

Maybe we should all begin checking our geneologies and physical attributes for Canaanites in the wood pile. Let's see, I'm both tall and hairy myself. Could I have been descended from the Nephalim? And were the Nephalim actually early space travelers from the lost planet Marduk, the planet with the elliptical orbit that only comes into relatively close proximity to Earth every 2500 years? And, didn't Haggai prophesy that this would happen again in our times during Elul, causing all of the ACOG splinters to reunite?

I guess we could all descend into weirdness, if we allowed our imaginations to run wild. It just seems that the bizarrest and most repressive weirdness comes from Armstrongites whose minds have been invaded by an Aline marketing executive who wanted everyone to believe that he had the total solution to mankind's questions and problems and wanted everyone's tithes for his "wisdom".

BB

Unknown said...

Link has inspired the "poet" within me...

I think I'm related to Bigfoot,
though nothing has ever been proved.
I sort of suspect he's a cousin,
just seven or eight times removed.

It's not that I'm apelike or hairy.
It isn't the size of my feet.
It's more on account of my family.
We're all fairly far from petite.

My sister is kind of a Bigmouth.
My brother could go by Bigsmelly.
My mother is known for her Bighair.
My father? You guessed it: Bigbelly.

And as for myself, I'm attractive.
You might even call me a cutie,
except for one obvious feature...
my family all call me Bigbootie.

Anonymous said...

No. Just no.

If you were looking for a sound mind, move on. There's nothing to see here.

This sounds more like a script for a made for Syfy movie.

And this is representative of all of Armstrongism since British Israelism is just as nuts.

Anonymous said...

Have you ever watched one of Norbert's videos? Pathetic and creepy doesn't even begin to describe them!

Anonymous said...

"This sounds more like a script for a made for Syfy movie."

How about another script for Darren Aronofsky?

old EXPCG hag said...

You haven't heard? The mystery of Bigfoot was solved.

He is my X.

Anonymous said...

Armstrongism has it's spinoff goofies- such as Norbert, E W, Booby, and various other Cocoa Puffs.

Problem is, Armstrongism is just a little boat in a big sea of cults, so their spinoff goofies make no where near as much money as, for instance, Scientology's spinoff mega-asshole goofball criminal Kevin Trudeau does.
(Not to mention that plenty of other freakazoid asswipe gurus like Tony Robbins and Joel Osteen can rake in the big bucks and adoration like no Armstrongist can!)

Ya think the little bitty Armstrongist gurus might be jealous of the much more successful gurus?