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NASB | Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually--regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age." |
Bible Question: Is God with each and every one of us at all times? Although I can't conceive how this would be so, I tend to think this is true. However, I'm confused as to why God asked Adam and Eve if they had eaten from the tree of good and evil. Wouldn't He have known? And if He hadn't of known, does this mean He is sometimes absent from us? |
Bible Answer: Genesis 3:8 says"They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden." This verse tells us that Adam and Eve were physcally aware of the Lord's presence with them in the Garden. Matt 28:20says "teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." This verse in Matthew is where Jesus tells us that he will always be with us. This being with us is not a being which has the physical presence heard by Adam and Eve in the Garden. It is something we believe because He told us so. Yes I believe that though God was with Adam and Eve when they disobeyed Him and ate the fruit that He asked them because He had to hear their confession in real time. That is he had to hear them say so in just the same way as they heard Him coming to them in the garden. God is never ever absent because through Jesus He told us He is always with us. Rainbow maker |