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 results of decision
55-1008 §70
You take... Like an old mother bird setting on a bunch of eggs, you know if she... It isn't the mother bird, now, that hatches the eggs. It's the atmosphere around them eggs is what hatches them. It's the atmosphere all the time. And you get an atmosphere where people are disbelieving and fussing and stewing among one another, and arguing about whether they belong to this church or that, you'll never hatch out Christians. That's right. You can't do it. This old bird might sit on that nest and hover them eggs till s...
Enticing spirits
55-0724 §68
Like the man once that hatched out some chickens. This is not a joke; I don't mean it for a joke. I mean it for a point. He was going to set his chicken and he didn't have enough eggs. He put a duck egg under one. And when they all hatched out, the duck was the funniest looking thing the chickens ever saw. So, the hen would cluck to the chickens and the little chicks would come, but the duck didn't know that language. But one day the old hen led him out behind the barn; there was a creek down behind the barn. When...
The invisible union of the Bride of Christ
65-1125 §101
When an injection, the sperm from male and female, there is usually one egg fertile. There is one egg, one germ that is fertile. If you ever seen hybreeding in cattle. Notice, there's a million eggs, there's a million germs. And when they are discharged to come together to the womb, coming through the tube and into the womb, they meet. One of them is egg. A million eggs, a million germs. There is only one egg in there fertile, there is only one germ fertile. They're all alive. You can watch them little calves, beat...
Paradox
64-0206B §76
Some people said that He was ... that Mary conceived, and that was ... the egg belonged to Mary; the blood cell come from the male sex, which was God. That's wrong, too. If it is, looky here: then to bring that egg down, there had to be some kind of a sensation. Then what do you have God doing to Mary? He created both egg and blood. He was God. She was an incubator. She was only a borrowed womb, like a borrowed grave to be buried in. He made all, see; had not a place to lay his head. He become our example, what we...
Jehovah-Jireh, part 3
64-0404 §29
So therefore, his life was a created life, not germitized from some man. And then, the egg wasn't Mary's, 'cause if the egg was Mary's (as most Protestant believe, and Catholics, too---that the egg was Mary's) now the ... was Mary's egg, making it human. No. If the blood cell was God, so was the egg God. Because Mary could not produce that egg down ... you know, you understand what I'm talking about. She could not do that without a sensation. So, with a sensation what do you make God doing then? Be sex again, see....