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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An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-132
A son of God can go a long time before he recognizes that he is a son. In fact a lot of true Christians are like the story of the baby eagle that was hatched out under a hen. You know that the eagle is a type of the true believer. Well, a farmer took an egg from an eagle's nest and he placed it under a hen. In due time all the eggs under the hen hatched out. The baby chicks got along fine with the mother hen but that little eagle could not figure out the clucking and scratching for food in the manure pile. He manag...
The resurrection of Lazarus
53-1122 §24
Here, many of you people around here, you're farmers, perhaps you go out on the farm to get your poultry and stuff. Look at a hen. A hen can lay the egg. And she don't have to be necessarily be with the male to lay the egg. And it's a egg just the same, everything just like. But it'll never hatch. It'll just lay right there, and it'll rot. You can set that egg, but if it isn't fertile, if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch, it's no good. For it hasn't got the blood in it. The blood come from the...
Believest thou this?
53-0906A §63
It's almost... When mating seasons come, the first thing you know birds go out and build their nests. They make a nest up in the tree. They take all their eggs and lay them and the old mother bird sets over them; and she warms them, hatches them, goes away. But now if that mother bird hasn't been in contact with the male bird... The germ of life comes from the male sex. We know that. A hen can lay an egg, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch. That's right. Germ comes from the male, and just...
Condemnation by Representation
60-1113 §27
Most people now who wants to have a delicious chicken dinner goes out in the country and buys himself a chicken that's got feet that can scratch and wings that can fly; and it's a chicken---the way that God made it. But it's the hybreeding of the chicken has brought it to just breast, and it topples around and has to keep it on screen. They can't put it out; it can't scratch. It can't make its living. And the meat is so bad that they can't use it. And if the chicken is made a laying chicken, its eggs will not hatch...
As the eagle stirs her nest
61-0122 §78
...o. Fifteen is a hen setting. I heard some good old mother out there say, "Yep." I remember Mom used to put pencil marks all over them, so she could tell if there be a fresh egg in there or not, she had. We had to watch that, see. Fresh egg meant something. So she'd set the hens fifteen. And the farmer only had fourteen eggs. So he climbed up a cliff and got a eagle's egg, brought it down, and put it under the hen. When it was hatched out there was fourteen chickens and one eagle. That's about the average, one out o...