this is an impossible question. how was god born?

Awesome question. One star for you. I guess we could answer this figuratively or literally. I'll go with the former and answer that "God" was born the same way mankind created all the other 3,000+ gods his fertile imagination invented: http://www.godchecker.com/

It is ironic believers claim their god always existed, and did not have a 'creator", yet insist the universe MUST have had a creator and could not have occurred without one.

One could also say "God" was born in the bible. The bible is what breathed life into this imaginary being. Before the bible some 2,500 years ago*, the notion of "God" did not exist. In this sense, he wasn't born yet. This kind of refutes the notion that "God" is timeless and has always existed. Of course the diehard believer could respond that just because God hadn't revealed himself to mankind for tens of thousands of years preceding the bible does not disprove his existence. The reverse is also true: lack of evidence does not scream proof either.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up old ones.

— Ruth Hurmence Green, (1915-1981)

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

— Joseph Campbell, (1904-1987)

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by the dozens.

— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, (1533-1592)

On the eighth day, man created God.

—Unknown

Man created God, not God, man

— Guiseppi Garibaldi

Who made who?

— AC/DC

Do not make gods in your own images.

— Stanislaw J. Lec, (1909-1966)

What the mind doesn’t understand it worships or fears

— Alice Walker

The conquering of fear is the beginning of wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

Fear is the mother of all gods.

— Lucretius, (B.C.E. 94-55)

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

— T. S. Eliot

For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall return.

— Genesis, 3:19

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

— F. Forrester Church:

Fear created the first gods in the world.

(Primus in orbe deos facit timor.)

— Caecilius Statius (220-168 B.C.)

It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

— Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

— Stendhal, [Marie-Henri Beyle] (1783-1842)

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

— Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

Religion is based mainly upon fear and fear is the parent of cruelty. Therefore, it is no wonder that religion and cruelty have always gone hand in hand.

— Bertrand Russell

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown, and partly the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing - fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand.

— Bertrand Russell, 6/3/1927

In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.

— Barbara Tuchman

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?

— Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844-1900)

If God made us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.

— Voltaire

God was never born, therefore He can never die.

God came from the infinite mystery of Himself. God is the only entity or force in the cosmos that is without cause.

This is why God is known as "The First Cause," the foundation of all other phenomenon, seen or unseen.

This is why He is called the Father, or in some religions, The Mother. This parental designation is because God came first, and He always gives rise to all else, including the universe and all of us. In ancient Vedic philsophy God is known as "The Unmoving Ground of all Existence"

God is the Unqualified One, the Only Being that can exist without attributes, without qualities.

Put in scientific terms, God created this universe from a tiny dot the size of the head of a pin. It's known as the Big Bang.

Nothing is too complex for humans to understand. Thats why science exists. Its not in complexity that we seem to fail, its in lack of evidence, theories and basic foundations that cause us to be unable to make large leaps. Everything is done one step at a time.

If we don't know, we don't mark it up to "OH cause God says" its "We don't know, yet, but we are working on it" Just because scientists can't come up with a satisfactory answer on demand, does not make it false. Scientists aren't pompus enough to say "This is how it is" without being able to back it up. Unlike christianity.

But, in answer to the question. God wasn't born. He was created. He was created by people like you and me to help explain the things that could not be explained at the time, so we would not fear death. God was a decent tool a few hundered years ago. But, we've grown up, we've made major discoveries and advanced by leaps and bounds technologicly.

I think we are ready........well most of us are......to put to rest the God theory and move forward. We really have no use for it anymore.

So yes, Blackacre is correct.

He has not. He has been around forever, and decided to create the earth and all the little earthlings, and the cosmos around for them to wonder. And since it was good, He also decided to create some greed, violence, adultery, disease, war, and sudden turns in the plot in general. If people were happy, it would get boring for Him to watch. I mean, if He has been up there like forever before He decided to create this gigantic cesspool it makes perfect sense that He created everything the way it is. Senseless. That can be expected from a guy who has grown not knowing his mommy or daddy, and has never felt the love of his parents... ;-)

God is. He always was and ever shall be. He is beyond time, having no beginning and no end. Think of the entire universe of space and time as a sphere in the palm of God's hand... that's just a metaphor but it illustrates the point. God is outside of time... it is the "fourth dimension" to His creation.

Some things are too complex for humans to understand. There are even things in science that don't really add up. I believe that God has always existed, and has created everything that we know to exist.

GOD wasn't born HE existed since before the beginning of time. that's a concept that is very difficult to comprehend. never the less it is the truth.

At the beginning, there was nothing...

From the heart of this nothingness, there came pure consciousness...

This consciousness (God) divided into fragments of consciousness (Us)...

What we experience as physical reality (the entire universe) is actually an illusion, projected by this God onto our senses...

You're trying to think of God in anthropomorphic terms. He's God, not a human. He doesn't NEED to be born.

There are by last accounts about 4873 different gods and goddesses, people believe in. Which one do you refer to?