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 think ye of Christ?
54-0321 §23
Like the old saying: Which was the first: the hen, or the egg? You've heard that now: The hen or the egg, which was the first? Said, the hen had to come from the egg. Was the egg here first? And the egg couldn't be here without the hen. Well, that's easy. God created the hen, the hen laid the egg, and that's the way it started. That's just as easy as any way. That's got no question to that. People give those little theories and little things like that. There's really nothing to it. But now, the main thing is: Who w...
What think ye of Christ?
53-1213M §15
That's been an old dispute through the ages, through the scientist, and through the evolutionists and so forth. What was Christ, who was He? And it's just as simple as... The question is, which was first, the hen or the egg? You've heard that, which, the hen come from the egg and which was first the hen or egg? Why the hen was. God made the hen and the hen laid the egg. That's just a simple as anything but they always ask me, "The hen come out of the egg, so how did ... which was first, hen or egg?" So God made the...
God making His promise
56-1209A §29
Notice, now, when Christ came... Now, like today, you take your... You people here, if you ever knowed you can take a hen. She can lay an egg, ever so beautiful. And if that hen hasn't been with the male bird, it'll never hatch. An old mother bird can lay a nest full of eggs, and the nicest nest full of eggs that science could take those eggs apart and a egg that was fertile and one infertile and they'd never find the difference. That's right. But that old mother bird could lay a nest full of eggs, and she could si...
Oneness
62-0211 §49
Just like you take the eagle and let it lay an egg, and put it under the hen; the hen will hatch the egg; she's only the incubator. But there isn't one speck about it, the eagle, that's a chicken. No, sir. The hen was the... You could tie a little pup down over the top of a--a bird egg, and it would hatch a bird, the pup would. It's the warmth of the body that hatched the egg. And that's the same way it is with Jesus. Mary was just the incubator. God used her like He does any other woman. She was a virgin; she'd ha...
Modern events are made clear by prophecy
65-1206 §38
Often give my little story of a little eagle. How the farmer set the hen one time, and he had... I hope it don't sound sacrilegious to you. But a farmer set a hen, and she lacked one egg in having a setting. I doubt whether anybody here knows what a setting of eggs is, how much it consists of. But, anyhow, he lacked one egg, in having enough. So he robbed the eagle's nest; she had two eggs. And he put the egg under the hen. When that eagle was hatched amongst all them chickens, he was a funny bird. He couldn't unde...