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An old episode of family guy brought to mind a question I felt helplessly compelled to share with the generalite zealots of NS.

When is God's birthday?

Indeed, we know when we celebrate Christ's birthday, (or at least when we decided to do so), but what about God's? Christmas as well? New years? some arbitrary and otherwise meaningless date further on in the year?

god was not born

god started (in whatever way or not that might be) before time started.

god can have no birthday.

some unimaginable BCE date when some shaman or other dreamed him up in an opium haze.

Exactly. God was not born, and has no age due to existing outside of time as we know it, and thus has no birthday.

Birthdays is a human invention.

god can have no birthday.

gods parents must of been very cruel indeed, I bet all the kids picked on him in school not letting him blow out any candles or something along those lines :(

thats why the more birthdays you have the more likely you are to die

32nd of Octember.

some unimaginable BCE date when some shaman or other dreamed him up in an opium haze.

Does it HAVE to be opium? Why not marijuana? ;)

gods parents must of been very cruel indeed, I bet all the kids picked on him in school not letting him blow out any candles or something along those lines :(

thats why the more birthdays you have the more likely you are to die

the stars are god's candles.

he stopped making new ones because the number got so high that it kept reminding him that hes really really old.

February 30th, and April 42nd.

G-d was never created - He has always existed. Therefore, He does not have a birthday.

I don't give out my birthday to strangers.

February 30th, and April 42nd.

Actually, 30th of February did exist in the 18th century in Sweden (and the Soviet Union in the 20th century it seems, as well) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_30

I cant believe how many ignorant, SAVAGES we have here on this forum!

THIS is the birthday of God.

Learn it, for it is a Holy Day!

Feb 19th. 1948.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0409546/bio

I cant believe how many ignorant, SAVAGES we have here on this forum!

THIS is the birthday of God.

Learn it, for it is a Holy Day!

Feb 19th. 1948.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0409546/bio

But Dio took the name :p

It is purported that God has no navel. That being the case, he could not have been born. Someone should check that out.

Tomorrow. And it's a Friday too! Excellent, looks like I'll be having beers to celebrate.

But Dio took the name :p

I feel that Dio was merely a prophet, and not the Holy One.

god was not born

god started (in whatever way or not that might be) before time started.

god can have no birthday.
If time is only measured in events, and the measure of a day is by a qualification of god's intent, like that whole "rested on the seventh day" thing ...

Does it HAVE to be opium? Why not marijuana? ;)

well, sure, possibly. but my thought was that something so outrageously stupid as god could only have come from the addled mind of a smack-head.

12/7/1972. Hehehe. :D

god was not born

god started (in whatever way or not that might be) before time started.

god can have no birthday.But it gets celebrated on Saturdays (Sundays for the heathen splinter groups).

I don't think she is really bothered when her birthday is assuming there is a God.
i'd guess everyday to be on the safe side.
who knows?

12/7/1972. Hehehe. :D

There's something about being born mid-July that makes for Gods among mortals.

I should know :)

There's something about being born mid-July that makes for Gods among mortals.

I should know :)

Actually, that is the americanized dating system. Your european system makes too much sense for us. So that's month/day/year. December 7th, 1972. A date that will in infamy. ;)

Actually, that is the americanized dating system. Your european system makes too much sense for us. So that's month/day/year. December 7th, 1972. A date that will in infamy. ;)

Ahh, the 31st anniverary of Pearl Harbour, of course.

Well I was born on the 18/08/68, if that helps? That is correct God is not 7 but 8!

April 1st

Ahh, the 31st anniverary of Pearl Harbour, of course.

:p

April 1st

Yay! :D

An old episode of family guy brought to mind a question I felt helplessly compelled to share with the generalite zealots of NS.

When is God's birthday?

We don't have to delve very deep into the Old Testament to answer that one.

1.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. ...

Whether you read that as God coming into existence with the act of "creating the heaven and the earth," or as God being assumed to exist already, plainly no days existed when God came into existence ... if he even did.

No days, therefore no calendar. Making that one of the stupidest questions ever asked.

*tips hat to all the funny posters*

Exactly. God was not born, and has no age due to existing outside of time as we know it, and thus has no birthday.

Birthdays are a human invention.

So is "god".

So is "god".

Or vice a versa,... atleast until there's some empirical undisputed answer to end this kind of questions.

If time is only measured in events, and the measure of a day is by a qualification of god's intent, like that whole "rested on the seventh day" thing ...

uhhhhh

so you agree with me?

But it gets celebrated on Saturdays (Sundays for the heathen splinter groups).

i always thought the sabbath was in recognition of god's 7th day of rest, not his "birth".

uhhhhh

so you agree with me?

Well, you did hit the point with the second post, there wasn't much else left to do but agree with you or make jokes!

However, your reply included the idea "before time began" which is a logical contradiction. That's not your fault, it's right there in the first five words of the OT.

The certainty that without "the heavens and the earth" there would be no days, nor any calendar to mark a particular day, debunks the idea of "God's birthday" without having to resort to any description of "time beginning."

So, I like mine better of course. :p

On his birth certificate which i recently found amongst some old clothes in the attic...No, im not going to reviel it here.
You will have to bid on it on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110213228025

Well, you did hit the point with the second post, there wasn't much else left to do but agree with you or make jokes!
Why not both? :)

12/7/1972. Hehehe. :D
*makes note to send weasels next year*
It is purported that God has no navel. That being the case, he could not have been born. Someone should check that out.

Ah, but it could be assumed that Adam and Eve did not have navels, yet have "birthdays"

*makes note to send weasels next year*
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