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God Changes?

In discussing the supposed need for the Roman Catholic church to get with the times, Tony Jones says the following:

"The error here is based on some old school Platonic metaphysics, there is some perfect, some ideal, that is transcendent and unchanging. The problems are twofold — one pragmatic, one philosophical. First, the Catholic church has changed innumerable doctrines, and saying that it’s just a change in interpretation is semantics. Second, and more problematic, is the idea that there is some perfect, unchangeable ideal that emanates from an unchangeable God.
But that’s not the God of the Bible, not the God of history, and not the church of history. God changes. Yes She does."
How unbelievably ironic that Jones beats up on the Catholic church for not following the God of the Bible, when he obviously has no clue about the nature of the God of the Bible.
And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end." (Heb 1:10-12 ESV)
 
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (Heb 13:8 ESV)
 
"For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. (Mal 3:6 ESV)
There are many things with which I and the Catholic Church disagree, however, this is not one of them.  If God changes then that inherently means that there is some way in which He has grown or developed.  If that is true, then He's not God.  But that really is the problem with men like Jones - they don't really want to submit to the God revealed in Scripture. 
 

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