Intellectual and Relational Plate Tectonics

I live in geologically active country. The Pacific Northwest is renowned for volcanoes like Mt. St. Helens, and the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where the North American and Juan de Fuca plates create a major fault. All this has me wondering: are there any analogies between human relationships/ideas and the created world?

Romans 8

19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

The Present Situation:

In fallen nature, both the the earth and human relationships have faults.People (and ideas) can move three ways relative to each other:

1) Extensional: they can be driven apart by some third person or idea

2) "Transform:" (an unfortunate term, from a Christian perspective) they can be individually drawn to two divergent ends; and so either slowly "slide" or "grind" past one another; until the tension builds to a point where there is a sudden jerk/divergence/falling out/agreement to go two separate ways

3) Compressional: they can collide. Upon collision, one of two possibilities occurs:

a) subduction: one person or idea is "submerged" by the other; so that whoever is the strongest survives.
b) mountains: both persons(or ideas) are equally strong and so continue to build up against each other in an incommensurable way, so that onlookers must choose which side of the mountain they will inhabit.

"Thy Kingdom Come"

In redeemed nature, both people and ideas are restored, so that the image is no longer one of stress and strain but of God's original intention: a kingdom of perfect order and flourishing. It would seem, then, that relationships will no longer be characterized in terms of extension, compression or "transform," but something much more intimate, "face to face." To know will be to love, and to love will be to know. There will be no other desire but the Triune God, and therre will be nothing to tempt, frustrate or impede that desire. Perhaps this is what transfiguration, the Beatific vision and perichoresis are all about.
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This site gives more fodder for thought: http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/plate-tectonics.html