“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that,

when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and
they bare children to them, the same which became mighty men
which were of old, men of renown.” – Genesis 6:4

Indeed there were giants in the world in those days, but the

verse in Genesis does not say giants – it says Nephilim, which

means the fallen ones, referring to the angels who fell from

Heaven. The Greek translation of that word was Gigantes, which

means earth-born, and the King James scholars transliterated it

as giants. The term earth-born almost certainly refers to the

Titans of Greek myth, who emerged from inside the Earth, where

they had been imprisoned by their father Ouranos (Heaven).

Also, the word translated as renown actually means bad

reputation. The King James translators use the word mighty,

with roots referring to war, to translate a word that means

warrior. So they were warriors of bad reputation.

Not all of those offspring of the angels were giants, but some of

them were giants, and God did consider all of them evil. The

cross-breeding of angels with humans was an abomination in the

sight of God. When God later commanded the Israelites to kill all

the members of certain tribes in Palestine, it was due to their

genetic impurity – they were part fallen angel. Noah was “perfect

in his generations” (Genesis 6:9) because he was completely

human and did not have any nonhuman ancestors.

Tradition and myth back up the position that fallen angels mated

with human women, creating the heroes such as Herakles (Latin

Hercules) in Greek myth, the half-human half-god giant who

performed twelve great feats of strength. Herakles was not a

nice person, either. The gods ordered him to perform his twelve

labors as penance for having murdered his wife. Many of the

“mighty men” were giants, and all were evil in the sight of God.

The best-known Biblical instance of one of the giants is Goliath,

the Philistine giant that David killed by tossing a stone with his

sling and hitting Goliath on the forehead. This tale confirms the

statement in Genesis 6 that the sons of God continued mating

with the daughters of Adam after the Flood, thus creating more

giants. The Bible tells us that David picked up five stones before

this encounter, and that does not call into question David’s faith

that God would guide the stone to kill the giant. The fact is that

Goliath had four brothers, and they were also giants.

Interestingly, five is the number of God’s grace; according to

Exodus, the Israelites marched out of Egypt in groups of five and

not one among them was ill or lame.

The Greek myths portray many instances of gods mating with

human women. For example, they tell us that Zeus took the form

of a swan and raped Leta. She gave birth to an egg, and twin

girls eventually hatched from that egg. One of those twin girls

grew up to be the woman that we know as Helen of Troy.

Like the Nephilim, the Titans were Earth-born sons of Heaven,

their mother being Gaea (Earth) and their father being Ouranos

(Uranus, Heaven). The Titans probably are not the Gigantes

(Earth-born). Greek myth tells us that the Gigantes and the

Cyclopes (one-eyed giants) sided with the Olympian gods in their

war against the Titans. However, the Titans are gigantic. One of

them is Atlas, who stood at the Pillars of Hercules and held the

bowl of the sky on his shoulders. Perhaps the best known Titan

is Prometheus, who is said to have created man. The

Prometheus myth is one of many legends competing with the

Biblical account in Genesis, which clearly states that God

created everything, including man. The Titans rebelled against

Heaven and were imprisoned inside the Earth, but some of those

fallen angels escaped from Tartarus and wreaked havoc in the

universe. Their own children, the Olympian gods, rebelled

against them and waged one of several wars among the gods.