Accommodation is the process by which God adapts His revelation of Himself to the thought systems of the human mind so we can understand something of who God is and how He does His work. God made the world a fit place for the revelation of Himself. He also made human being capable of understanding that revelation. The images God takes from the world to describe Himself are appropriate and true because the creation reflects its Creator. The psalmist affirmed:

The heavens declare the glory of God
the vault of heaven proclaims his handiwork;
day discourses of it to day,
night to night hands on the knowledge. - Psalms 19:1-2 -

Human being, the crowning achievement of God's creation-made in His image and likeness-was made to fellowship and communicate with his Creator. - Gen. 1:26 - Because of the difference between God's supreme nature as Creator and human being weak nature as His creature, all revelation on God's part involves accommodation to human's level of understanding. Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible speaks of God's eyes, fingers, and hands; He is God who sees and touches His creation. God is also portrayed with such emotions as jealousy and anger. This is the way of declaring that He is a God who feels and responds to His creatures. Thus it is described in human terms and the technical word for this is 'Anthropomorphism.'

God's greatest act of accommodation occurred when Jesus, God's Son, took on the form of a human being. Jesus, the only begotten Son of God accommodated Himself to the limitation of human nature in order to declare the Father, to us, showing how far He was willing to go to set us free from our sin.

In the Beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came to be,
not one thing had its being but through him. - John 1:1-3 -

The Word was made flesh,
he lived among us,
and we saw his glory,
the glory that is as the only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth. - John 1:14 -

No one has ever seen God;
it is the only Son, who is nearest to the Father's heart,
who has made him known. - John 1:18 -

Something which has existed since the beginning,
that we have heard,
and we have seen with our own eyes;
that we have watched
and touched with our hands:
the Word, who is life-
this is our subject.

That life was made visible:
we saw it and we are giving our testimony,
telling you of the eternal life
which was the Father and has been made visible to us.
What we have seen and heard
we are telling you
so that you too may be in union with us,
as we are in union
with the Father
and with his Son Jesus Christ. - 1John 1:1-3 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -