Meaning of "Us" in Genesis.

When we read, Gen 1: 26 And Elohim said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule etc.
There are four plural words in that verse: Us, Our, Our and them.
Three of the words are emphasized with capitals for a reason.I believe this is the sixth (day means yom, day or eon of time) making of the wonderful indigenous folks of all the lands of the earth, these people were made in a multitude of images and didn't eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and lived exactly as their blessing says in Gen 1: 26 to 31. They ate of virtually anything they could, and only took what they needed, and looked after the earth, so it could sustain them.
Very much unlike Adams decendants who have taken more than they need and made a mess of the earth today known as Environmental DevastationI also believe the indigineous people didn't die in the flood, as it was not a world wide event. I believe the flood was only in the Mesopotamia region between the mountains of Iran, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Midian and Arabia and across where I believe the flood, when high enough, breached the Straits of Hamaz and flowed into the Persian Gulf.When we read Gen 2: 7 you will find that Adam was given a blessing called "the Breath of Life". And as we know he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, a curse that his decendants also inherited, and as we know the evil outnumbered the good, so the Almighty Yahweh decided to deal with the doers of evil, with a Flood. The Ark was made and loaded up. Did it have every creature on the face of the whole earth aboard, such as Anacondas, Polar Bears and Kangaroos? No, there are up to four million different animal species on the whole earth. There is no way known, in excess of ten million creatures, are going to fit on the Ark.The creatures that went on the Ark were the creatures of the Mesopotamia area. You will also find many instances were the Word says "all of the earth" but only means an area of the earth.
A good example is Luke 2: 1. I'm sure Caesar Augustus didn't count the American Indian or the Australian Aboriginal. He counted the people under his authority, only.And getting back to the Breath of Life blessing of Adam, you will find in Gen 7: 22 that the only people that died in the Flood were the ones that had "the breath of life". The indigenous folk that were created during the sixth eon of time were spared from the great flood, as they mainly lived outside the flood zone, and lived on, as did Noah, his wife, his three sons and their three wives.The decendants of Noah including the 12 Tribes of Yisrael have now spread around the earth to become the fullfillment of prophesy "They shall become Many Nations".

Thank You for your reply Catholic Scientist.What I pointed out was a different scenario to the one that has been put forward by the churches for hundreds of years. Everything that I wrote is supported by the Bible, I just see and interpret things differently to what has been taught.I believe: That creation took six eons of time (billions of years). The first light that came was the Spirit of Life (1st eon).The expanse between the waters (Oceans, Heavens, Clouds)is were the heavens are. (Note "Heavens" is plural) (2nd eon).The land that appeared from the midst of the waters was what Scientist today have named "Gwondwanda Land" the accumilation of continents before they started moving around the earth on there plates. Plant life with life giving seed then appeared, fruit trees that yield fruit according to its kind. These lived on the first light. (3rd eon).New lights, the Sun and Moon appeared, for signs and appointed times, and for days and years. The stars also appeared. (4th eon).All sea creatures and bird life were created, both great and small were created, everything according to its kind. (5th eon).All land animals and land creatures both great and small were created, everything according to its kind, and as I wrote in my previous article, men and women were created, I believe they were the indigenous folk of the earth. (6th eon).All of these things I believe weren't created in six 24 hour days, or even six 1000 year days as some teach. The Almighty is a creator, and to create anything that is good, takes time, ask any master craftsman. There is multitude of stumbling blocks to the vastly shortened version 6/24, 6/1000 of creation, one of them is that millions of people in the world have ended up turning to the religion of evolution, as they have not in my opinion been taught the whole truth, they have eyes that can see, and ears that hear, and they can see that the earth is billions of years old. The Gwondwanda Land forest are the oil of today. It has been said that anyone that doesn't believe the 6/24 must be an evolutionist, nothing could be further from the Truth. I believe entirely in creation, everything after its kind, over billions of years.People have asked me were do the dinosaurs fit into this, the answer is simple, they were obviosly created during the 5th and 6th eons of time. That's a period of millions or billions of years. They were created early during those periods, and had the misfortune of becoming extinct sometime during the sixth eon of time, millions of years ago. It's also note worthy that the indigenous folk of the world, have a long history that goes back tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, a long time before the creation of Adam, who I believe was created at the end of the 7th eon of time, after the Almighty had His Rest, this was about 6,008 years ago.Anyway I must go, I will be back with more soon.Edited by Howard Shaw, : I put in one word "whole" in front of truth