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 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'...
Oneness
62-0211 §47
Now, the other day, standing preaching, there was a bunch of Catholic people in my audience, and I said, "You Catholic people that call Jesus, or call Mary, rather, the mother of God, how can God have a mother when He's eternal? He can't have a mother. Jesus was not even anything to Mary, but He was just... She was an incubator that hatched Him." Well, they always believed, and I had an idea of it myself years ago that the--the immaculate conception was that God overshadowed her and put a blood cell in there, but t...
Why I'm against organized religion
62-1111E §48
Just like the farmer. It's not pleasant to put a joke, but to make an illustration. They said a farmer set a hen, and they didn't have enough eggs and he put a duck egg under it. When the little duck was hatched, he was the funniest looking thing them chickens ever saw. He had a long funny face, and he went along quacking instead of clucking, and the chickens all eat and pecked in the barnyard. And that wasn't his diet, exactly. So one day the old hen led him out behind the barn, to catch some grasshoppers, and ove...
Questions and Answers, Part 3
64-0830M §182
And notice, then she was given a seed which was Christ. Neither her egg... Now, the Protestant wants to believe that it was a virgin born hemoglobin, the created blood of God where the germ laid, but said it was her egg. No, sir! That egg cannot come down through that tube into the womb unless there be a sensation. Then you put God with a Spirit and having sexual intercourse with a woman. How can it be done? It was a created matter of God altogether, both egg and germ. And He was the Son of God, not the son of Mary...