Those who teach their students how to teach others have a rule: Only ask one question at a time. It initially seems like God breaks this rule in Genesis 3:11…until we remember that God is the perfect teacher, and so it’s more likely that Adam simply didn’t have an answer to God’s first question.

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” aria from “Jesu, der du meine Seele,” BWV 78 (Leipzig, 1724).