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 Godhead explained
61-0425B §51
...the commandments of God, so he took a lamb. He confessed his sins, and this lamb was killed. While his hands being on the lamb, his confession that he knowed he should die for his sins, but the lamb was taking his place. And the blood cell was broke, and he held the little lamb by his hand until he felt its little life go out of it and stiffen out. Then the priest, of course, throwed the blood on the fire ---the brazen altar of judgment. "Then," I said, "that man, then, he went out of there knowing that the lamb ha...
The choosing of a Bride
65-0429E §80
...w. Could it be possible? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Remember what I said the other day at the breakfast? In the pollen of breeding, male and female, there is a million germs goes forth, million eggs goes forth, but there is only one of them lives. And yet they're every one just alike. One out of a million. Every one of them the same egg, and the same kind of germ. One of them lives; the rest of them dies. No one can tell which is the one that is the ripe egg, and what about it. God has to decide that. Whether it's going t...
The Seed is not heir with the shuck
65-0218 §39
...t's the way with people who profess Christ. Many of them look like Christians, try to act like Christians, but you've got to have Christ on the inside of you, which is the Word made manifest, or it'll never mature into a real Bible-believing Christian. It'll always be a denominational something. It cannot live, because there's no life in it to live. An egg cannot hatch, it rots right in the nest, if it hasn't been with the male bird. Just like members of a church. You can baby them and call them---make them deacons...
The Law having a shadow
54-1203 §27
Sin's judgment is to take life. Notice how people now can look and see that's how we believe so supremely in the blood of the Lord Jesus. Jesus, I used to think was a Jew, or He was Jewish blood. He was born of a Jewish mother, but He wasn't Jewish blood. Neither was He Gentile blood. He was the blood of God, see. God the Father overshadowed the virgin Mary, and created a blood cell in the womb, that brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus. You see what I mean? Every male... The blood cell comes out of the male. Like,...
Paradox
64-0418B §66
...ale and female, and where... Who determines what it's going to be? Here is the sperm from the male with the hemoglobin, the blood, in it. And here's the woman, which is the egg, up here. Now the first two that meets, the germ crawls into the egg, and the rest of them die. And there's tens of thousands times thousands of those germs. And you say, "Well, the first in front." No, no. They stop. And maybe it'll be a germ come up from the middle of the germs, and the egg come from the very back end, and they'll come acr...