it appears almost contradictory that the christian god, as revealed in the bible, is often described in terms of his supreme transcendence and the inability of limited, finite man to comprehend and know the god who is unlimited and infinite – the contradiction being that even this knowledge can be known by humanity and recorded in scripture. although this may appear on the surface to be an illogicality, the status of the christian god's unknowability is only true insofar as god acts not to reveal himself. in this line of thinking, no human being can ever hope to even understand or know god via their own powers of discernment. the principle of accommodation is that god has chosen to reveal aspects of himself to humanity in a way which humanity is able to understand.