[Esaias]

The truth is the future is not yet (that's why it's called the future). The only certainties in the future are the certainty of possible courses of action. God knows everything exactly AS IT TRULY IS. God therefore knows our future choices as they truly are: POSSIBILITIES and probabilities.

The Bible says nothing about God being "outside time". Time is transition, from one state to another. If God is outside time then God does not DO anything, he has no THOUGHTS, he simply IS.

But God is not like that. The Bible clearly shows God thinks, plans, counsels, considers, and even changes his mind! Therefore, time always existed as a function of God's own state of mind.

The Bible goes back to " in the beginning", not "before the beginning" - which is a self contradictory concept anyway.

We need to divest ourselves of paganised thinking and views of God, and get back to the Bible. Rather than try to interpret the Bible through the lens of classical metaphysics, whether pagan or catholic/protestant, we need to let the Word tell us where to start and what to think about the nature of God and reality.