Divine accommodation
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Divine accommodation means that God has accommodated various truths so they can be comprehended by the human mind. In its connection to biblical interpretation, "the Bible is to be interpreted in view of the fact that it is an accommodation of Divine truths to human minds: God the infinite communicating with man the finite... We must be careful, then, not to push accommodating language about God and His nature to literal extremes. God does not have feathers and wings (e.g., Psalms 17:8); nor is He our literal Father in the same sense our earthly father is." [1] The idea of divine accommodation is usually associated with the theology of the Protestant Reformer John Calvin.
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- God's Accommodation - A Nurse's Baby Talk, by Robert J. Olson
