Does God not constantly stare at all creation when he asked "Adam where are you?"?

Question

Other cases are:

The angel of the Lord went down to Sodom to see if the reports were true before destroying it.

God asked Satan of his activities and whereabouts during a meeting with His angels in the book of Job. Satan basically barges into the meeting.

God apparently uses angels to keep Him apprised of some situations on Earth.

Your thoughts please.

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My point is He is omnipresent through angelic agents assigned throughout the universe. Maybe he is just giving them a purpose (who knows).

As far as I know, God doesn't play mind games NOR hide and seek. He says what he means and means what he says. So I think.

Please continue responding as I am interested in your thoughts on this.

Answer 1

If you insist on staying with Christian beliefs, there are a few problems. However, there are few points:
1) The beings that visited Adam where the angels, were Gods manifestations, just as man is, but with greater senses, greater powers, and were the creators. Look up Elohim.
2) The statement isn't whether God can see man, but where has man tried to hide himself! The "sin" of the tree has nothing to do with sex. It has to do with partaking of the knowledge of good and evil, which we were warned against. We did it anywya, and finding ourselves judging things in terms of good and bad, we were suddenly capable of anger, fear, suspicion, blame, guilt, worry, lies, etc.
3) God is incapable of interacting with us directly as he is. Only because he is all-powerful does anything exist, as this means that everything that could be done, is done (actualilty, not potential). One wouldn't say, "God, being all-knowing, COULD know anything". One WOULD say, "God, being all-knowing, DOES know everything". The same is true of being all-powerful and all-present.
4) Everything that exists is an aspect of God. There is nothing seperate from God. Yet, because he is all-powerful, everything MUST exist, even evil, even pain, even limits to an unlimited God (at least from certain perspectives).
5) There is actually a much longer logical proof (formal logic, NOT common sense nonsense or such) about the nature of God. Though it doesn't prove God's existance, it does severely limit what God's nature must logically be (please don't argue that God doesn't have to be logical, as that is often the statement of someone who doesn't have any formal logic training. God's nature is surprisingly subject to logical discussion).
6) One more note: "Angel" in the old sense did NOT mean a winged being or such. It meant a representative of God. In ancient Jewish tradition it WAS angels that came to Adam, and Sodom, and Jesus. It was Christianity that changed that tradition, though there are modern Jewish beliefs that resemble Christian thought on this matter.

Answer 2

There's a lot of questions in there.

Well, the Bible tells us that God, knows all. He knows the future, present and past, everything. Our thoughts, our desires, our worries, the number of hairs on our heads, our needs- even before we know them. That is a small part of omnipotence and omnipresence !

At the time of Creation, He already knew everything that would happen, including Adam's sin. He knew when, how, etc. He was obviously, mad. I'm sure He knew where Adam was, He knew Adam was hiding, but I believe He wanted a confession out of Adam. Instead, as God knew, Adam blamed Eve, she blamed Satan. That is one of the great sins of human kind - irresponsibility !

Sodom and Gomorrah- God knew. Abram asked God to recheck the two cities for true believers. God knew, but He needed to send someone to prove this to Abram. So He did - a couple of Angels, whose primary purpose is serving God. It wasn't a matter of not knowing by God, it was a matter of having a physical check by a physical person, to satisfy Abram.

Job : In Job 1:6:
6(L)Now there was a day when the (M)sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and [a]Satan also came among them.
He came with them. How do you infer "barging in" from that ? In times of doubt, research other translations, your concordance- for crossreferences and even a Diaglott, if necesary- to consult the original hebrew/ greek.

God apparently uses angels to keep Him apprised of some situations on Earth ?
Angels serve God in whatever purpose He desires. Why would someone who knows everything now, in the past an future - as I've stated previously need to know anything ? He doesn't. Why doesn't God come to Earth, physically, as He did in the days of Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden ? The Earth in unclean with non-believers. One day, after Jesus has cleansed the Earth, after the White Throne Judgement, God will physically return to earth again.
Hope that answers everything for you.

Answer 3

God knows without asking but He needs for US to know. The question to Adam was an eternal question. Personal Accountability - it's the same question God still asks today - where are you in relation to HIM. The question God asked satan -again making satan take responsibility and give account for himself (nowhere to hide, no excuses and it forced him to reveal his activities to us). Angels sent to Sodom and doing His bidding on earth: God knew what was going on in Sodom but He sent angels to pinpoint the sin (look at the sodomy the wicked tried to perpetrate on these angels). There was no room for excuse to stand and again it opened up understanding to us that we would not have had otherwise. Three other purposes for the "visitors" from heaven - 1) to commune with Abraham and 2) to allow Abraham the opportunity to 'intercede' and 3) to deliver Lot by force for Abraham's sake.

Answer 4

In the case of Adam and Eve, the question was not asked so that God could get information, but ask so that Adam could own up to his actions.

In the case of Sodom, the angels went by Abraham's tent first, and revealed to him where they were going and why. This allowed Abraham to intercede for the city and save the life of Lot and his daughters.

In the book of Job, God's conversation is again, not intended to gain information for himself, but to open a conversation that would allow God to control and limit the actions of satan, and bring about the deliverance of Job.

Does God use angels? Yes. But not to bring him information. He already knows everything. He uses them to direct, control and deliver people in the situations. He uses questions at times to get us to own up to our actions.

Answer 5

It is an ancient Semitic way of God asking "Where are you in your relationship with me?" God did not have to ask Adam's geographic location -- he simply wanted Adam to do some self-reflection in reference to the grievous act he had just committed.

God's question of "Who told you that you were naked?" would put Adam on the spot and hopefully cause him to realize and confess his disobedience to God's word -- which he did. Again, more self-reflection was needed here.

Answer 6

God just wants people to be honest. He know what is going on here on Earth at all times. He is trying to get the people to speak up, and to help them along. When they talked with the angels that was God's way of talking to them. He knows what all of us are doing all the time. He wants to have fellowship with us all.

Answer 7

LMAO i just told someone the same thing a few days ago when he asked me why people think the bible is not real. I said If God was God.. ( all knowing all seeing God) why would he have to ask adam " where are you?????" and " why are you no longer naked?"

Answer 8

The question to Adam was rhetorical.(God sees and hears everything).

Answer 9

He was naked. Would have been rude, and sorta gay to stare at him.
God is a lot like a parent. His creations were out of his control a bit, so to say. That is, they didn't do exactly as he figured, or the way he planned, they rebelled.

Answer 10

Congratulations! You've found a few of the many oddities of the bible!