{"id":15241,"date":"2022-12-04T14:21:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=15241"},"modified":"2022-12-04T14:21:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T19:21:45","slug":"genesis-39-doesnt-god-saying-adam-where-are-you-show-god-didnt-know-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/genesis-39-doesnt-god-saying-adam-where-are-you-show-god-didnt-know-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 3:9 &#8211; Doesn\u2019t God saying \u201cAdam, where are you?\u201d show God didn\u2019t know something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Doesn\u2019t God saying \u201cAdam, where are you?\u201d show God didn\u2019t know something? No, because it wasn\u2019t a question for God to learn from, but to inform Adam about his condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, \u2018Where are you?&#8217;\u201d (Genesis 3:9).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Solution:<\/strong> The context of this verse is immediately after Adam had sinned.\u00a0 \u201cAnd they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, \u201cWhere are you?\u201d 10 And he said, \u201cI heard the sound of Thee in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.\u201d (Gen. 3:8-10).\u00a0\u00a0 Does this mean that God didn\u2019t know something?\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 Someone can easily ask a question to which they know the answer.\u00a0 Usually, the reason to do that is to point something out or teach something.\u00a0 Obviously, Adam and Eve had sinned.\u00a0 God asked, \u201cAdam, where are you?\u201d Where was Adam?\u00a0 He was hiding from God.\u00a0 Adam\u2019s sin had destroyed his fellowship with the Lord.\u00a0 God knew this, and He was pointing it out to Adam.\u00a0 It is a question we need to ask of ourselves.\u00a0 Where am I?\u00a0 Am I in fellowship with God or in rebellion against Him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Doesn\u2019t God saying \u201cAdam, where are you?\u201d show God didn\u2019t know something? No, because it wasn\u2019t a question for God to learn from, but to inform Adam about his condition. \u201cThen the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, \u2018Where are you?&#8217;\u201d (Genesis 3:9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-proof","category-bible-teaching","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}