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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
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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...
Why?
63-0626 §58
Like I said, like springtime, these old mother birds are building nests out here, and laying eggs. Some of them will lay a nest full of eggs that'll never hatch, too. Why, she could lay a nest full of eggs, and she could set on them, and just be so loyal. She could turn them eggs each day and stay there, away from food, until she gets so poor she couldn't hardly fly off the nest. No matter how much she babies them, and how much she pets them, and how loyal she is to them, they'll never hatch. Why? She hasn't been w...
Accepting God's Provided Way at the end time
63-0115 §47
Unless there's death, there cannot be birth. Birth only comes by the substance of death. "Unless a corn of wheat falls in the ground and dies, it abides alone." It must rot, and get into corruption. And then from that corruption springs forth life. No other way it will work. It must first corrupt, and be corrupted. And that's the way we must be---die to ourselves, and be born anew of the Holy Spirit. No, they haven't found any better way for a chicken to get out of a shell, than to peck his way through. That's God'...
The Key to the door
62-1007 §65
Now, when I was born in this world, it was between a holy wedlock, between my father and mother; in her womb was an egg, in my father's glands was a blood cell. My life consists of that blood cell (not of my mother's egg), of my father's blood cell. And when that blood cell went into its proper place to meet the egg, when it did, nature was commanded to God to give me a body. And then that I was then born into the human race, I was given an opportunity to become an intelligent person like human beings are, where I...