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 Queen of the South
58-0613 §34
Farmer... I don't mean this for a joke, no place for a joke, but I want to make a point. A farmer set a hen one time. They didn't have enough eggs to set her. How many knows what a setting of eggs is? Fifteen. All right. So, he only had fourteen; he went over and got a goose egg ... or, a duck egg, put it under the old hen. When she hatched all these fellows out, they all looked all right but this duck. He was a funny looking fellow. And she'd get out in the barnyard, you know, catching grasshoppers and carrying on...
Jehovah-Jireh, part 3
64-0404 §28
...re saved by blood; and without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Notice, Jesus was not Jew, Jesus was not Gentile, Jesus was God. He wasn't... He couldn't be Jew or Gentile. Look, the male sex produces the hemoglobin, which is the blood cell. The germ is in the blood cell. Now, you people here, a lot of you... I was riding around the other day watching your farmers, and you have chickens. Now, a hen can lay an egg. An old mother bird can lay an egg; but if she hasn't been with that mate, it'll never hatc...
Christ outside the door
58-0330E §20
If anything I ever felt sorry for was a incubator chicken. You know you take a little chicken ... the egg, and put it in a incubator, and you'll automatically hatch him out. And the poor little fellow don't know nothing but "chirp." That always would put me in mind of a seminary preacher, the way they turn them out by a big machine. And the little, old chicken can chirp, chirp, chirp, and ain't got no mammy to go to. That's just about the way with one of these incubator preachers, that knows nothing but theology. "...
Go tell My disciples
53-0405S §102
There was a man working on the house over there, come over with Mr. Luther. He said, "Say, preacher!" And I said, "Yeah." Said, "You know," said, "I got a hundred hens at home." And said, "Them old hens," said, "I give them all the starters and everything else, and the feeds, and," said, "I can't get them things to lay." He said, "About a week ago, I got down, I said, 'Lord, if You'll just ... if You'll just make these hens lay, I'll give half the eggs away.'" Said, "You know, they started laying." Said, "Next day...
Who is this Melchisedec?
65-0221E §37
The other night I was teaching somewhere, I think it was out in California or Arizona, about ... I believe I've told the little story here, about the man setting a hen that had an eagle egg under it. And when that eagle hatched out, he was the funniest looking bird them chickens ever seen. But, he walked around. He was the ugly one among them, because he just couldn't understand how that hen will cluck and scratch on that manure pile and eat. He couldn't get the idea. She'd say, "Come on over and feast, honey!" Wel...