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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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...
Questions and Answers, Part 1
64-0823M §11
And now, it also said, "And it shall come to pass, that before the end time shall come, that automobiles will take on the shape of an egg, become more like an egg. And I saw an American family driving down a highway in a car that... They were setting facing one another, and had a table, and were, looked like, playing checkers or cards. And they didn't have any steering wheel in the car. And it was controlled by some power without a steering wheel. How many remembers me prophesying that (see?), that's been here? Now...
Does God ever change His mind about His Word?
65-0418E §6
There's only one out of that million is going to live. Did you ever think of that? They are the same germ and the same egg, both of them just alike, but there's only one going to live. And that's not determined which one beats there first, because sometimes the egg way back in the back, and the germ might be up in the middle of the sperm, and they'll crawl over one another. It takes an intelligence to know whether it's going to be boy or girl, red-headed, black-headed or whatmore. It's a election of God; it can be...
God's only provided place of worship
65-1128M §43
Now, you can take a chicken egg and put it in a incubator, when it should be under a hen, but it'll hatch anyhow. Put it under a pup it would hatch. It's the warmness, the condition that makes it hatch. So it has to be under condition. You could take a good live egg and put it under a dead hen, it won't hatch. It's the condition. Well, that's the way it is in this age that we're living in. You've got to find what is God's way of doing it for this age. That's what Martin Luther found, that's what John Wesley found,...