What do I do if I feel that non-believers are taking advantage of my Christ-like kindness?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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First up today, let's go to Tom, calling in from Missouri.

Tom, what's your question for, Adriel?

Hi, Adriel.

I was curious to know I've been looking at the doctrine of accommodation lately.

Just somebody presented it to me as a frame of references, how to look at the Bible.

And I was just curious if you believed in that, because everything that I've seen about it, it seems pretty heretical to me.

And it basically says, as I understand it, that,

you know, God spoke to us in, like, poetic ways, and he doesn't actually mean what he says.

That may be a little bit more loose than what the actual doctrine is, or I may have looked at it wrong, but I believe that there's parts of like revelation and in the Psalms that have poetic language, but I also believe

you can speak in poetic language and still speak truth, and the doctrine just seems kind of

heretical to me, so I just wanted your thoughts on that.

Hey, Tom, thanks for reaching out. So I do believe in the doctrine of, if you want to call it the

doctrine of accommodation, sometimes people sort of refer to the doctrine of analogy as well.

But the way you've presented it, I'm not really comfortable with.

I mean, obviously there are different genres in scripture, and I don't think that the idea with the doctrine of accommodation is that God doesn't really mean what he says.

So let me just take a step back for a moment and talk about the fact that, right, we have this great gap between us as creatures and God as the creator.

It's the creator creature distinction.

I mean, it's at the heart of Orthodox Christian theology.

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