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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You must be born again
61-1231M §66
Like I preached here some time ago on the little baby eagle. I guess you'll remember the story, how the farmer put the eagle egg under a hen. And when the babies was born, they was all chickens but one. He was an eagle. He was an odd little fellow. He was altogether different, but you see, he was born in another category. The sperm in the egg was different. It made a different bird. Certainly. He looked queer, he acted funny to the rest of them; but he was only acting natural, because he couldn't do no more because...
Israel and the Church: Israel at Kadesh-Barnea
53-0328 §74
Reminds me of a guy one time that once set a hen. And the old hen had... He had enough eggs to set all but one. And he didn't have... He thought, What am I going to do with that one egg? So he goes out and he finds a duck egg, and he puts it under the old hen. And the old hen hatched out all of her chickens, and a duck, too. And they was walking along in the barnyard, you know. And if that little old duck didn't look out of his place; about like one of you holy-rollers, you know. Walked around, "Quack-quack, quack-...
The Seed is not heir with the shuck
65-0218 §38
Notice, how more like the real thing Mary was, but like the shuck. The shuck hugs this seed in itself, and protects it, and nurtures it, until it's standing alone, mature. So has this third church age of Pentecost matured, holding this grain until it's time to open up the shuck. Mary being the mother of Christ, just an incubator. He was no blood of Mary; He was no blood of Jew; He was no blood of Gentile; He was the blood of God. God created this blood. It could not be sex. He wasn't Jew nor gentile. The baby's not...
Accepting God's Provided Way at the end time
63-0115 §45
Neither have they ever found a better way for a chicken to get out of an eggshell, than to peck his way out. They haven't got any better way. Science has never been able to produce anything else. If you crack the shell to take him out, it would kill him. He'll die. He must follow God's provided way in order to live. Amen! That works on human beings, too. He's equipped. Did you ever notice little chicken when he gets out of the shell? He's got an extra little beak upon his shell, a little white scratcher. And the li...
What think ye of Christ?
51-0930A §10
Look, you take... if a hen... a hen can lay an egg, and if that hen hasn't been with the male bird, it will never hatch. It's not fertile. An old mother bird can make a nest, and lay a nest full of eggs, and she can just hover them, and hold them, and squeeze them, and set on there, and starve herself till she gets so poor she can't get off the nest. That's right. Hovering them eggs and keeping them warm, but if she hasn't been with the male bird, them eggs will lay right there in the nest and rot; they'll never ha...