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 §39
...t's the way with people who profess Christ. Many of them look like Christians, try to act like Christians, but you've got to have Christ on the inside of you, which is the Word made manifest, or it'll never mature into a real Bible-believing Christian. It'll always be a denominational something. It cannot live, because there's no life in it to live. An egg cannot hatch, it rots right in the nest, if it hasn't been with the male bird. Just like members of a church. You can baby them and call them---make them deacons...
The Law having a shadow
54-1203 §27
Sin's judgment is to take life. Notice how people now can look and see that's how we believe so supremely in the blood of the Lord Jesus. Jesus, I used to think was a Jew, or He was Jewish blood. He was born of a Jewish mother, but He wasn't Jewish blood. Neither was He Gentile blood. He was the blood of God, see. God the Father overshadowed the virgin Mary, and created a blood cell in the womb, that brought forth the Son, Christ Jesus. You see what I mean? Every male... The blood cell comes out of the male. Like,...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 5:E-103
Now the majority of us have the mistaken idea that any and all who call themselves Christians would be the target of the devil and consequently the brunt of governmental tyranny. But not so. This first church had begun to thrive and multiply so in numbers that the emperors and various officials of the government actually favored that church for political reasons. Thus when the leaders of the First Church in Rome found themselves in favor, they took the opportunity to turn the government against the true believers a...
Paradox
64-0418B §66
...ale and female, and where... Who determines what it's going to be? Here is the sperm from the male with the hemoglobin, the blood, in it. And here's the woman, which is the egg, up here. Now the first two that meets, the germ crawls into the egg, and the rest of them die. And there's tens of thousands times thousands of those germs. And you say, "Well, the first in front." No, no. They stop. And maybe it'll be a germ come up from the middle of the germs, and the egg come from the very back end, and they'll come acr...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 6:E-64
What will be the punishment of the harlot and her children? Well, it is going to be twofold. First He said, "I will cast her into a bed." According to the last part of verse 22 it will be a bed of tribulation, or the great tribulation. That is exactly what Jesus said in Matthew 25:1-13. There were ten virgins. Five were wise and five were foolish. The five wise had oil (the Holy Spirit) but the other five did not. When the cry went up, "Behold the Bridegroom cometh," the five foolish had to run seeking oil while th...