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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
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An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-128
Let me inject a thought in here. Even our natural birth is based upon election. The female ovaries produce many, many eggs. But why is it that at a certain time a certain egg comes down and not another one? And then amongst the male sperm, for no known reason a certain germ attaches itself to the egg while others that could have just as easily attached themselves, or had a better opportunity to do so did not do so and perished. There is an intelligence behind all this, otherwise what determines whether the baby is...
The Seed shall not be heir with the shuck
65-0429B §43
Now some of them says then (the Protestant more or less believes) that it was Mary produced the egg. If that be so, look what you make Jehovah God doing. The egg cannot be produced without a sensation. So you see, God made both egg and germ. He created both in the womb of Mary. And that man was not nothing but God Himself, made flesh and dwelt among us. Immanuel; not just a fine man, a prophet! He was fine man and prophet; not a teacher, a theologian. Oh, He might have been all of that. He was all in all. But above...
Expectation
61-0205M §44
...l the little birdies down here get out in them cactus tops and bushes out there, build them a nest. An old mother bird can build her a nice little nest and make it so cozy for her babies, lay a nest full of eggs. And she can sit there on those eggs and [unclear words] and turn them just so much, and get so hungry, and she'll starve herself till she's so poor she can't fly off the nest. If that mother bird hasn't been with the mate, them eggs will never hatch. Right. They're not fertile. The blood stream comes from...
A testimony on the sea
64-0307 §39
...t'll soon be nesting time and those little birds today---one of those sparrows packing straw into their nest---it won't be long till they'll be nesting, making their little eggs to hatch. You know, a little bird can have a nest of eggs, and she can set on that nest of eggs. And she turns them every few minutes, takes her little feet and turns them over, and sits there. Now, if she lets them eggs get cold after they once get warmed up, they won't hatch. And she just flies off to get a mouthful of food, and right bac...
He cares. Do you care?
63-0721 §62
And they're injecting this hybreed into cattle which has come back into mankind now, according to science themselves, and is making perversions out of them. Because, when a cow is hybrid, or any food is hybrid, that food makes blood cell, and blood cell is your life. See what it's done? And then, into meat, they inject these here injections into the meat, and now it's proved that these injections take effect upon the human race. Scientific! They spray the fields with this DDT, I seen the other day, and now we got e...