Just beginning to have a few thoughts following on from a previous post. I wonder if some of the problems we have in trying to understand the relationship between God / Creation / Us are due to the tendency to view creation as something other than God, i.e. it's something He made. If I can stretch the Adam and Eve analogy a little (I begin to think it is a multi-faceted analogy by the way) creation would be something that came out of God, or it is in fact a part of Him, and remains a part of Him.
I've never been able to accept, for example, that God exists outside of time, and in this scenario time becomes an expression of part of God's character. It does not limit Him or control Him, it's just a part of the way He has expressed Himself in creation.