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.
Ask a Follow-up Question
What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
As the eagle stirs her nest and flutters over her young
58-0316A §54
You know, one time, a man, was told that he was setting an old hen. And he found a eagle's egg; so he thought, "I believe I will see what this will do." So he took the eagle egg, and he put it under the old hen. And then when that eagle hatched out with all them chickens, if he wasn't a funny looking little bird to all the chickens. That's about the way it is: He gets about one out of a setting. That's about the way you get them. They average about like that, one out of a setting. And he's always a funny looking bi...
The eagle in her nest
57-0705 §27
So this farmer, he got a eagle's egg. And he lacked one in having a setting, so he put the eagle's egg under the hen. And when that hatched out, it was the funniest looking little thing, to all those little chickens. Why, he couldn't understand what they were chirping about; he spoke in a different language. He didn't know what them chickens was talking about. I hope you know what I mean. So then, he watched them, and he didn't know what to do. And they all picked on him, because they said he was an odd fellow. He...
A Paradox
62-0128A §68
The virgin birth was a paradox. I do not believe that Jesus was any part of Mary. That was not his mother. It was a woman that God used for that purpose, an incubator to bear his child. If Mary ... if the seed of the woman, which, she is the egg and the man has the hemoglobin... If that's right, doctor... See, the blood ... the life lays in the blood cell. And a hen can lay an egg. But if she hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch. Now I've often said this, and I say it again. It's coming springtime. The...
It is the Rising of the Sun
65-0418M §56
...a thing. Join the church." It just didn't hit right with the little guy. So he followed around the hen until one day his mammy... The old eagle knowed she had laid so many eggs, and there was one missing. She knew that that eagle was somewhere, so she starts out on the hunt for him. And she circled over the mountaintop, and down in the valleys, and over in everywhere where he might be. By this time it's time for him to be born. It's time for him to be hatched out. Said, "Maybe a crow come in and picked up my egg;...
Life is the healer
57-0611 §30
How did you get here on earth? Now, it's a mixed audience. You listen to a doctor. I'm your brother. Listen, through holy wedlock, through the germ... The germ of life comes from the male. The female produces the egg. The germ comes out of the blood cell from the male. Anybody ought to know that. You people here from the farms, many of you know it. You take a hen can lay an egg. But if the male bird hasn't been with her, it'll never hatch. It's not fertile. An old mother bird... It's springtime, mating time. The ol...