‘He’ DID know where they were but was polite to ask. God didn’t haven doesn’t have a human body but ‘his’ presence was noticeable, as it says on several occasions throughout the stories in the Bible.
This refers to in the meaning of that God would never even think of commanding such a evil thing bc God is LOVE personified, but he is also a God of Justice n the wars fought in the Old Testament was justified wars bc those people did not follow God’s laws nor were they willing to repent.
What does him asking such a question have to do with him being polite? Furthermore, Adam and Eve even had to explain to God what happened. This is just weird imo.
This doesn’t work either. It makes sense to do that when there are people who sacrifice humans or something of the like, but you don’t say “It would never cross my mind to hurt and burn people” and then command just that. For me, those lines prove that god is loving and the abrupt contrast is something else, maybe even referenced by Jesus, pretending to be god.
Even those verses which seem cruel like the lake of fire actually are of love is read in the way they were originally wrote. The word used for lake of fire actually means crucible, where one purifies gold from dirt. It is a line of redemption and forgiveness, not of eternal punishment like the church led us to believe.