This winsome post by Angie Smith (House of Mercy, at Bring the Rain, Nov. 1, 2009) begins:

I have long been fascinated by the questions that the Lord asks in the Bible. It started when I was reading through Genesis (one of my favorite books of the Bible, seriously) and I came to the part where Adam and Eve had sinned and then decided it would be a brilliant idea to run from Him.

Because God isn’t really that great at finding people, you know.

So anyway, God asks, “Where are you?”

And I think that’s kind of funny because when I read it years ago I thought maybe He was serious. Maybe He was thinking He had added a little too much of the landscape and now He had gone and lost His very first man. And instead of reconsidering that, I thought that instead of asking, He should have just made it so they couldn’t hide, or better yet, just fire up his powers and hone in on them.

Or, maybe He knew where they were the whole time.

Due to the fact that He is all-knowing, all-powerful God of the universe, I’m going to stick with B.

But why would He ask if he knew the answer?

Read the rest. Do.