"God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply."

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Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

— Tertullian