Jesus: No Accommodation Theory but Accommodation: a Prophetic Think Tank
The idea advanced by Dr. Enns here is known as the accommodation theory and was first advanced in the eighteenth century by Johann Semler, the father of German rationalism. The accommodation theory is very popular among liberal theologians and basically asserts that Jesus accommodated (accepted and taught) the various ideas of His day, even if they were wrong.5 Allegedly, since Jesus was primarily concerned with spiritual matters, He didn’t bother to correct some of their false historical or scientific beliefs because doing so might have distracted from His real message. https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2012/01/31/did-jesus-tell-a-lie/
According to Dr. Peter Enns here, Jesus wrongly attributed the writing of the Pentateuch to Moses because He accepted an erroneous tradition of His day. https://answersingenesis.org/jesus/jesus-is-god/was-jesus-wrong-peter-enns-says-yes/
He insisted, further, that the Scriptural writings show on their face that they were not intended to be a norm of doctrine for all men. Since the Old Testament was written for Jews whose religious apprehension was limited, the Gospel by Matthew was written only for extra Palestinian Jews, that Christians were possessed by Grecian culture. He argues that it was necessary to accommodate the teachings of Christianity to the needs of these various classes, which explains the appeal to miracles and the use of “stories” by Jesus and some of the apostles — the σάρξ, according to his opinion — and the emphasizing of the πνεῦμα by Paul—Mclintock and Strong
