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Originally Posted by asaris
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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That sounds more like an excuse to me. God is seems different here or a time X because the people are different.
What that says to me is god is just a reflection of a societies values and as those values change they will change the image of their god to fit.