On the Creator, His Creatures, and the Incarnation of the Son

I got into an interesting conversation after our evening service tonight about the Creator/creature distinction and the difference between archetypal and ectypal knowledge (you know, just your normal, everyday, after-church chat among Presbyterians).

For those unfamiliar with these distinctions, the gist is that God is qualitatively different from us (and not just quantitatively different, as if he were merely a really large human). Keeping this in mind is helpful when we come across passages of Scripture that speak of God "repenting" or "regretting that he had made man" because of man's rampant sin in the days of Noah. When we remember that the Bible necessarily employs analogical discourse when speaking to us about God (what Thomas called "baby talk"), we can then reassure ourselves that God does not "repent" in the same way that man does. In a word, there is not a common reservoir of something called "repentance" from which both we and God draw, but rather, God's repentance is a divine repentance while ours is always human and creaturely.

With that being said, however, I did begin to think on the drive home about the ramifications (if any) of the incarnation upon issues such as this. Even a cursory consideration of the mystery of the divine Son and second Person of the Holy Trinity assuming human flesh and a human nature cannot but give us pause when we posit an absolute and never-blurring distinction between God and humanity.

So I guess my question(s) to get the discussion going would be, Now that human nature has been glorified in Christ, and given that we will one day be "like Jesus, for we shall see him as he is," is the Creator/creature distinction a good place to begin thinking about our relationship to God? Is there perhaps a more incarnational and Trinitarian model for thinking about these things, and if so, what would that look like?