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.
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...
As the eagle stirreth
60-0403 §65
One time a man was setting a hen, and he couldn't find enough eggs. So he found an eagle's nest, and climbed up and got the eagle's egg, and put it under the hen. And when that bunch or brood hatched, that eagle was a funny looking little fellow from the rest of them chickens. That's just about the way it comes---one out of every setting. Just about the way it happens. That's true. And here he was, a funny looking little fellow. He couldn't understand the clucking of the hen. The old hen out there in the manure pil...
Return and Jubilee
62-1122 §60
What did it do? It made chickens out of eagles; earth-bound birds out of heavenly ones. A chicken is a bird, all right, but he's earth-bound. He keeps his nest down here where every weasel that come, come around, kill his eggs, and get his little ones, and things. But not an eagle. He builds it so high yonder till nothing can touch him. God likens his heritage to eagles, you know. That's right. And we've got a bunch of Pentecostal chickens, and not eagles. What made it? We give them chicken feed. That's what did it...