The Ever-Changing Humanity

I just thought about this today as I was at lunch with my grandfather. We were talking about fossils, important events, civilizations, and other historical facts and ideas. We both agreed that a lot of the time there is no real way of knowing 100% what is true and what is false. For example, as far as we know, there were not human beings around to see the dinosaurs. All we have to go off of are the fossils we have found around the world. The only thing these fossils represent is the skeletal structure of these immense creatures. We have no way of knowing the color of their skin, the texture of their scales, or even what they ate. We can make hypotheses based on what we know to be true and on other well-documented facts, but that is all we have...educated guesses.

"You know, there is one thing that we know for certain about those times, " I said to my grandfather as I took a bite of my cheeseburger.

"What is that?" he asked.

"Well, the sun still rose every morning the dinosaurs were alive, and it set every night." He laughed when he heard me say this and we both agreed about this. "The ways of nature have always been the same," I continued. "Trees have always made oxygen, stars have always shone in the night sky, and the world has always revolved around the sun. The only thing that has changed all these years is humanity and its ideas." (When I say always here I do not mean that nature and the universe have continued infinitely back in the past. I use always to refer to the time that God created the universe until now).

I mean, think about this. Every chemical reaction and natural happening that we know of today has not changed in hardly any way. Fire still gives off heat, water, and CO2. Plants still undergo photosynthesis. Even the cells in our body (since the beginning of humanity) have gone through the same daily reactions needed to sustain us. It is merely our ideas and attitudes that have changed. We do not share many of the same ideas as the ancient Romans or Greeks, nor will the people in coming generations share exactly the same ideology as us, and yet, we are all human beings. We all eat, breath, sleep, and die the same way.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is why in the world did God, an infinite, never-changing being, decide to send His Son to die for us finite, ever-changing beings? Was it pity? No. Was it necessity? No. There is one reason God sent Christ to die for us...grace. This entails love for, faith in, and kindness towards the ever-changing humanity. And that fact will never change...