1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our own image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
Here it is important to note that God has said "us" and "our." This would imply that he was talking to somone, but he had not created anyone (I am using he as it is the use of it in the text) else yet according to the text.
In the Hebrew lanuage, the word Elohim is used for God, a word that can be plural or feminine. One suggestion is that God here was plural, early was the Creator of the Universe (Chaos, Allah, ect.) While later it is a subGod speaking, with the belief that each of the subGods, which I will refer to as gods, had their own region to build from. It is believed that this expains why Cain found himself a wife after being drven from his parents. Already it leads to an interesting thought, if the people of Nod wern't decended from Adam and Eve, why would they be mortal? They would have had no original sin, and not being of Eden, must have been from a differnet creation of people.
3:22 And the Lord God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
This would seem to explain why everyone is mortal, but a big thing here again is God says "like one of us" which must mean there were others. Were they angels, or gods?
3:24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garde of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Heres a question for you. For a god that destroyed the world in a flood, and seemed to be wishywashy in destroying cities, why not destory the garden? Why not remove the serpent still in the Garden? If you read just above this verse, it does not mention the serpent being banished from the garden of Eden. Why? Sibling rivalry maybe?
6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the hereos of old, men of renown.
The Nephilim in the book of Enoch, were a group of giants begat from a group of angels refered to as the watchers, and human women. Later Jesus, among others, is called the son of man. But here we have the children of God, and daughters of men. Are these daughters recieving the title that is later very important, and is Jesus being refered to as somthing less than this race?
8:6 After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark, and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
What does this mean? Before the dove was ever sent out, Noah sent out a Raven, one that seems to not have returned. But what happened to that bird? Why did it not return? Why is the raven not considered more important in the biblical regions, but has great importance in the Americas and Europe? Did the raven have some other purpose? A sacrifice maybe, or perhaps to goto other people and to lead them to lands elsewhere? Most cultures have a flood story, maybe the raven helped them too?