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 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...
Birth Pains
65-0124 §24
Like a little chicken when it's being born. You know, have you ever noticed one of the little fellows? Right on top of his little beak (or any bird that's born from an egg) it's got... It's maturing this old egg shell. The old inner part of the egg has to rot away. And it has to take this little beak and scrape back and forth until it breaks the shell out. We call it "pipping its way out" down in Kentucky where I come from. Pipping its way out. They've never found a better way. Why? It's God's provided way. You try...
Why?
62-0622E §10
And we were talking about this little woman this afternoon ... this morning, I believe it was, that we were talking about the little woman that I spoke of---the ill-famed little fellow---that came out to the well at Sychar, and she seen the Lord Jesus. And not recognizing Him, yet she was to be one of his disciples. Now, I have a little funny doctrine. Now if it don't go just right with yours, you do the same way I do when I'm eating fried chicken at your house. I just love fried chicken. And when I hit a bone I do...