Why did God keep asking Satan where he had gone?

Question

Job 1:7
The LORD said to Satan, "From where do you come?" Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it."

Job 2:1-2
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it."

Answer 1

Asking questions does not always have the purpose of gaining information. For example, teachers often ask questions to "engage" students so they dont tend to fall asleep. Remember God also asked Cain where his brother was, when he knew the answer to that question, also.
We humans are not always capable of understanding all of Gods ways..but that is not always bad. For example, if you could predict the future with certainty, like God, wouldn't it be scary to know you were going to die on such and such a day? God says, in his word something like, "there are many more things I could tell you, but you cant bear them now." In a way, we are like children to God. So, we dont try to explain to a 2 year old what birth control is for, as he would not understand. In a similar way, God will reveal things to us when we are ready, including answers to your good questions.

Answer 2

stable question!!! If God is quite all efficient and could do something, can God then forgive the accuser, the devil, Iblis (as devil is customary in Islam)? there are a number of written pages which disagree with the assumption of God forgiving devil - yet it quite is likely interior God's ability to embody all awareness, all awareness and understand actuality, consequently forgiveness of errors (sins) maintains to be a relentless. The accuser devil (Iblis) is meant to have been created appropriate, yet imperfection is chanced on interior him interior the type of delight. If devil, Iblis, is basically the creation and not the author, how did the imperfection come to stand up interior guy or woman who became created appropriate interior the initiating, in basic terms to fall later? This will boost questions which, easily, far too many christians are too rooster-hearted to even think of approximately, no longer to point answer. thank you for the two factors!

Answer 3

The people who wrote the Old Testament had a more anthropomorphic idea of who God and Satan were. The saw them as physical and sort of super humans.

Answer 4

God already new the answer, He wanted to see if Satan would lie. He also new Satan would lie.

Answer 5

God knew where satan was and where he was going, He was testing satan and also setting him up. He wanted him to notice JOB. God was using Job as an example of what a real servant of God was. Satan went for it hook, line and sinker.

Answer 6

God asked that question, in my opinion, not because He did not know the answer, He knows all, but because he wanted to see if satan would answer honestly

Answer 7

Like your parents asking where have you been all night...when maybe someone has already given them a report on your whereabouts and they already know the answer, but want to see if you will tell the truth or lie about it.

Answer 8

I am a mother of four daughters. I can tell you that I have asked one of them at least once where they were when I KNEW precisely where they had been....

usually because they were in trouble.

Answer 9

Have you ever heard of the term rhetorical question.

That is what kind of conversation G-d is having with Satan.

Answer 10

I guess this would put a big question mark on the whole omnipotence thing, unless he is checking to see if Satan would lie to him.

The story of Job always reminds me of what a jerk the old testament god was.