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As MartinGuerre points out, Christianity has long seen itself as part of a history of progressive revelation; it's not that God changes, but that our understanding of God develops and becomes more...well, I don't want to say sophisticated or accurate, but different. God relates to cultures as they are, and so he relates to more primitive cultures differently than he does to more 'developed' cultures.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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