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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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,...
We have found Him, come and see
53-0511 §13
Now, Jesus in flesh was Deity. God overshadowed a virgin and created a blood cell. We all know that the child, or the ... comes from the male sex. The germ of life of any thing comes from the male. Like a hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch. An old mother bird can lay a nest full of eggs, (springtime now), but if she hasn't been with the male bird, they're not fertile, they'll never hatch, no matter how much she warms them and hovers them. She can stay on that nest until...
As the eagle stirs her nest
61-0122 §81
So he walked around. He had to be in the back all the time. They'll never put you in nothing. Don't worry about that. So, they had to get out there where they look like chickens, you know. So first thing you know, walked around through the lot. He really was an odd number; and any born-again Christian in a mess like that. Any eagle in a place like that's an odd number. That's right. So he didn't know what to do. The little fellow didn't know any better. Maybe we didn't. Didn't know any better. And one day you know...
Jehovah-Jireh
59-0417 §15
Just like a hen can lay an egg, or a bird. It's coming spring time and all the birds go out and make their nest. And they lay... The mother bird can lay a nest full of eggs, and get over them eggs, and hover over them; she turns them with her feet, keeps them warm. And she can set on that nest and hover those eggs until she's so poor and weak she can't fly off of that nest. But if she hasn't been with the male bird, they'll never hatch. That's right. She's got to be in contact with the male; because the hen can lay...