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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The infallible proof of the resurrection
57-0114 §33
Now, I want you to notice now, that in this great infallible proof that God gave for our justification, He raised Jesus after He had made the atonement; and His blood alone could ever be the come back of the Holy Spirit. Now, let's break down the human life. It goes down to one cell. The cell came from the male, which is the father. You're not the blood of your mother; you're the blood of your father. The hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch, no matter how perfect the egg...
The Token
64-0308 §16
...f Jewish blood." You hear the Jews say that. He wasn't Jewish blood; and neither was He Gentile blood. He was the blood of God. He had neither Jewish... He was neither Jew nor Gentile. He was God. "A virgin shall conceive." Now, I know many of you people, and the Protestants, think that the egg was Mary's; and the hemoglobin, which comes... The life comes in the blood cell. Because, a hen can lay an egg without being with a male bird. It won't hatch, because it's not fertile. Life comes from the blood stream, which...
The invisible union of the Bride of Christ
65-1125 §95
Like my little eagle story, all of you've heard it. A hen... An old farmer set a hen one time. He didn't have enough eggs to go under the hen, so then he found an eagle egg and put it under it. When the eagle was born, it was the funniest looking chicken them chickens ever seen. Little old eagle going along, the hen would go, "Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck." Little eagle said, "I don't know what that thing sounds like, but I am following her anyhow." And he went out in the barnyard and begin to scratch in the manure p...
Jehovah-Jireh, part 1
62-0705 §17
Now, we know the life is in the male sex, it's in the blood, the hemoglobin. Through there the hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch. Certainly, it's not fertile. That's the way as I made many rude statements, saying a female bird can lay a nest full of eggs, and she can be as loyal to them as she wants to be, she can hover them with her wings, and turn them every few minutes so they'll be sure to hatch. And she'll get so hungry, and fast, while she's on the nest, to be lo...
Led by the Spirit of God
56-0723 §42
Usually if a man is going to be a believer, he's got to separate himself from his worldly friends, all the people. Jerk yourself out from amongst unbelievers. They'll only call you back into the world again. Environment has a lot to do with it. Did you know that? Your environment. It sure is. As Brother Bosworth used to say, you put a hen egg under a puppy and tie him down, it would hatch the egg. The puppy would hatch out the chicken then. See, it's because the puppy keeps the egg warm, and it's the environment th...