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Accommodation

When speaking of divine revelation, it means that God designed the message to be understood by the original audience in their own context.

Allegorical

Approach to interpreting Scripture that interprets people, places, things and events as if they were symbols or metaphors for spiritual truths.

Anthropomorphism

It refers to the way God sometimes speaks or behaves in ways that seem almost human.

Application

In hermeneutics it refers to appropriately connecting the original meaning of a biblical document to contemporary audiences in ways that impact their concepts, behaviors and emotions.