Jehovah/Lord not God

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:[Simon]

:#7 Genesis 3:9

:   "And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto

:    him, Where art thou?"



:BRIDEAN

:One explanation I heard for this is that God was reminding Adam and Eve

that

:they are now lost by sinning by asking them "Where are you?".  Sort of like

warning

:someone of possible harm if they do something, they do it anyway, then you

say,

:"What are you going to do now?".


[Simon]
I see. Does not Adam's response negate that?

Genesis 3:10
"And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I
was naked; and I hid myself."

Adam offers the answer "...and I hid myself." to which God takes no
exception. Adam obviously took God's question to be less metaphysical that
the explanation you mention you heard. Adam is responding directly to God's
question with a plain-text understanding and offers an explanation that God
does not disagree with.

Further support is found in:

Numbers 22:9
"God came to Balaam and asked, 'Who are these men with you?'"

There is no indication there that God knew who the men were but was testing
Balaam. Balaam took the question as asked and told God who the men were.
Again, God did not give any indication that he already knew that.

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