What Came First the Chicken or the Egg?
1) Direct answer
The chicken came first.
2) Scriptural explanation
The Bible says God created “every winged fowl after his kind” and blessed them to “be fruitful, and multiply” (Genesis 1:20-22). He made living creatures “after their kind,” with “seed in itself” (Genesis 1:11-12, 24-25). Adam later named the animals already present (Genesis 2:19-20). So God spoke the fowl into being as complete creatures; then they multiplied by eggs.
3) Simple clarifying logic
Now notice: God made the first tree bearing fruit with seed already in it; He didn’t start with a seed only. In the same way, He made the first chicken as a mature creature; then came the egg. An egg requires a bird to lay it and brood it. Creation began with God’s spoken Word producing full-formed kinds, and reproduction followed.
4) Reinforcing statement
You see, life began by God’s creative act, not by a chain of accidents. First the chicken by the Word, then the egg by multiplication.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
As the eagle stirreth up her nest
59-0815 §46
So then, the first thing you know, the clucking of the hen, he couldn't understand it. The chickens, their diet and the way they'd eat, why, he couldn't understand that. It'd turn his little stomach to see the way they eat. Sometime it does, a real Christian in an old formal church. The diet: bunco games, card parties, soup suppers for the preacher; God don't endorse that. So then the first thing you know, one day while he was out there running along by himself looking around, his little wings folded, didn't know w...
Proving His Word
65-0426 §98
As I made a crude little statement the other night... (I'm waiting for you all to get these handkerchiefs here. I'm not trying to preach over again.) But I said there was a little statement. I hope this don't sound sacrilegious, see. But like the farmer that set the hen and didn't have enough eggs... So he got an eagle egg, and he set it under the hen. And she hatched out an eagle. And he was a very odd fellow, amongst all the chickens, because they didn't see things alike. But that's all he ever seen, was the hen....
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-92
Look at us. What is our life? Just one little cell that came from our father. The female does not have the hemoglobin. She produces the egg; she is the incubator. But the blood comes from the male. That is why the woman takes the man's name. The children take his name. The mother is the incubator for the children she bears him.
Believest thou this?
51-0506A §32
You know, springtime here in California now. I'm amazed of a morning to hear those birds and doves out there, how they're mating and fixing their nests. And I just think that bird could lay a whole nest full of eggs. And no matter how much she would hover them eggs and try to keep them warm, if she hasn't been with the male bird, they'll never hatch; they'll lay right there and rot in the nest. Isn't that right? And friends, that's... We know that the germ of life comes from the male sex. You're your mother's flesh...
The Seed shall not be heir with the shuck
65-0429B §42
like Mary's womb. Mary was not the seed, in the representation here of the stalk. She was only a carrier of it, like the rest of it. But being called, and chosen first by God himself for this purpose, it looked more like---as our Catholic friends would think---that she was the mother of God. No, she was not the mother of God. She neither was the seed of God. The woman produces the egg; God produces the life. The hemoglobin, the blood, is in the male sex. A hen can lay an egg, or a bird can lay an egg---springtime,...