accommodation (or condescension) is the theological principle that god, while being in his nature unknowable and unreachable, has nevertheless communicated with humanity in a way which humans can understand and respond to. the concept is that scripture has accommodated, or made allowance for, the original audience's language and general level of understanding. often included in these ideas is the notion of human sinfulness or capacity; so in other words god accommodates himself to the human capacities of those to whom biblical revelation is given.