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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Christ outside the door
58-0330E §20
If anything I ever felt sorry for was a incubator chicken. You know you take a little chicken ... the egg, and put it in a incubator, and you'll automatically hatch him out. And the poor little fellow don't know nothing but "chirp." That always would put me in mind of a seminary preacher, the way they turn them out by a big machine. And the little, old chicken can chirp, chirp, chirp, and ain't got no mammy to go to. That's just about the way with one of these incubator preachers, that knows nothing but theology. "...
Go tell My disciples
53-0405S §102
There was a man working on the house over there, come over with Mr. Luther. He said, "Say, preacher!" And I said, "Yeah." Said, "You know," said, "I got a hundred hens at home." And said, "Them old hens," said, "I give them all the starters and everything else, and the feeds, and," said, "I can't get them things to lay." He said, "About a week ago, I got down, I said, 'Lord, if You'll just ... if You'll just make these hens lay, I'll give half the eggs away.'" Said, "You know, they started laying." Said, "Next day...
Who is this Melchisedec?
65-0221E §37
The other night I was teaching somewhere, I think it was out in California or Arizona, about ... I believe I've told the little story here, about the man setting a hen that had an eagle egg under it. And when that eagle hatched out, he was the funniest looking bird them chickens ever seen. But, he walked around. He was the ugly one among them, because he just couldn't understand how that hen will cluck and scratch on that manure pile and eat. He couldn't get the idea. She'd say, "Come on over and feast, honey!" Wel...
Seals 8: The Sixth Seal
63-0323 §46
...saved through the blood of God. The child takes the father's blood. We know it. Anything in the male sex produces the hemoglobin. So we find out... Like the hen laying the egg. She can lay an egg, but if the rooster, the mate, hasn't been with her, it won't hatch. It's not fertile. The woman is only an incubator that carries the egg, but the egg come ... the germ comes from the male. And in this case, the male was God Himself!
Show us the Father
63-0606 §66
And then ... and now He is in us. "Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; yet I will be with you, even in you to the end of the age." God in us, see? Now. Now it looks like this ... that anyone could see... Many times people say Jesus was a Jew. Some of them said He was half Gentile, and half Jew. He was neither one. He was God. That's who He was. Now remember, when a baby's born, any life comes from the male sex. The germ of life comes from the hemoglobin, the blood; and the blood is ... the life is i...