Hi Pax,
I'm going to give a little analagy,
it's not going to be exact of course, but just see it helps.
I'm a mother, I have 3 children.
My main objective has always been to raise them to be mature adults.
When they were babies, I had to do everything for them, because they were helpless.
As they grew to be small children, I did not have to do the same as when they were babies,
but had to do a lot for them, to keep moving toward my objective.
As they became teenagers, I was not doing the same as when they were younger,
but again my objective was still the same as from the beginning.
Now that they are becoming mature adults,
the things I am doing for them now is nothing like the things I did as they were growing up.
I may have dealt with them differently along the way,
but not because I'm different, because they are.
But I can tell you I have not changed my objective or the ideas on how to reach it.
Of course I've had to deal with them in different ways over the years,
to make sure my objective was met.
I think you can see what I'm trying to say, my objective has been the same as from the beginning,
I have not changed that at all.
As a human mother I made mistakes and learned along the way.
But God is not like that, it has been said many times already,
He knows the end from the beginning, so He does not need to learn as He goes.
He does everything perfectly the first time and every time.
So if you can see He has not changed who He is at all,
but the world is changing as times goes by,
and so He make have been doing things differently to accommodate the changes in the world.
But that is the way He has ordained it to be, from the beginning.
I hope this was of some help
mercy, peace, and love
Kat