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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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...
Possessing the gate of the enemy after trial
64-0322 §19
Now, but when Jesus, the Son of God, virgin born, shed his blood, the life that was in that blood was God, Himself. The Bible said, "We are saved by the life, the blood of God"---not the blood of a Jew; not the blood of a Gentile---but the life of God. God created this blood cell. Virgin born---she never knew no man. Neither did she ... neither did the egg come from her. I know many of you people won't believe the egg did... The egg can't be there without a sensation. What would God do then, see? He created both eg...
At Kadesh-Barnea
56-0527 §20
But just recently (I believe) in the Reader's Digest or somewhere, I was reading an article of where they taken a little wren and put it in a cage, with nothing to build a nest by. And she had to lay her eggs on the cage floor. And they hatched out, the little wrens, and they taken them little wrens and put them in a cage without anything to build a nest. When they hatched them out to fifteen generations ... fifteen different generations to see if it would change the nature. Then, that would take fifteen years, bec...
There is only One Way provided by God for anything
63-0731 §13
For instance, today, coming up, I noticed in southern Indiana, and all up through Indiana and along, there were what we said hybrid corn. And what a fine big ear that corn is. But it isn't any good. It looks better, but it isn't better. It's absolutely no good at all. And we find out that by hybreeding chickens, we find that... Did you ever try to eat fried chicken in these days? Why, you can't hardly do it. It smells and tastes just like ... I mean it tastes like a chicken smells. So what is it? There's eight hund...