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 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...
The deity of Jesus Christ
49-1225 §26
The baby is always the blood of its father, never of its mother. We all know that. Without... I've taught that before, here in times. And you know that the baby has not one speck of its mother's blood in it, not a bit. No, nothing does. It's always the blood of the male. A hen can lay an egg, but if it isn't fertile, it'll never hatch. No matter how pretty the egg is, and how well she warms it, it'll always be infertile. It'll lay right there and rot (That's right.), unless the male bird has been with the female bi...
Show us the Father
61-0521 §61
Now God in his Word. And I'll try to hurry so we can hurry up. I'm getting late. That's the trouble with me. I talk too much, I hold you too long. But the beans won't burn, and if they do, we'll put some more on. Now, this is food that you need for eternal life. God in his Word. Now, the Bible said that the Word of God is a seed that a sower sowed. Now we know ... you farmers here, do you know that when you sow a seed, if you sow wheat, why, it'll bring forth wheat, if it's put in the proper care. You sow oats, it'...