nic said, If G-d exists beyond time, then how can He not know the future?

On the one hand, I believe the future is constantly changing, subject to the collective whims of those beings that have free will. On a different hand, who knows what the world looks like to one "beyond time"? For some reason the word "speculative" is ringing through my mind, the past few minutes, not sure where I picked it up from. At any rate, a "real" answer to that question is currently quite beyond me. I look at the concept of Ein Sof, for example, and the way Medini describes God, and wind up puzzling how there can exist any such thing as discrete objects.

It's not something I'm a-be able to pursue very far any time soon. My responses and beliefs as expressed in my first post, are what they are.

GM said: This is something that ticks me off, too, about xians.

How many xians do you know who believe as I do on this point?

GM also said: prophet? no.

Did Jesus ever style himself as a prophet? Not that I know of. So you've been debunking a role he never claimed.

P.
The most persuasive case
anyone can make for one's religion
is the way one lives one's life.