To believe in God means to be convinced that the endless chain of causality ends finally in the hands of God.\.
——Adalbert Stifter
In beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
John’s Gospel, 1:1
Stifter and John look back in time to explain our current condition with the common purpose of showing us our end. That is, we look back all the way through Creation (Causality) to find God as the First Cause (Prime Moved). Since God is the Creator Cause, it follows the Providence of God bends human history in Creation to the generous, compassionate purpose of God, which is to end human history with/in God.
Since God causes and concludes, God must be said to be both kind and generous, regardless of what may happen between beginning and end. God journies with us through all human history, patiently demonstrating how humans matter to God the Creator and End.
Jesus is God’s greatest testimony of love for humankind. Humankind is late in the Created Order, whether one asserts the historicity of Genesis 1-3 or not.
All that God does in Creation gives the lie to Nietzchean fulminations about the insignificance of humans in general and individuals in particlular. Nietzcehe and all who followed after him believed akin, “Man is a small, eccentric animal species that has its time.” If humankind is separated from God, there is no good reason not to enslave persons, to depreciate them finally to abort them in the womb, to shred them in war, to use them as fodder.
Jesus will not allow the end of Humankind,Nine billion souls in the world today do not burden Him. Jesus loves Creation. His performance as the Agent of Creation and His intent to Judge ) not condemn_ the race, means instruction to our ethics will have to continue in Human survival.
Yes, Jesus gets us. More importantly, we should strive to understand Jesus.