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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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...
God hath a Provided Way
56-0108 §38
Then He anointed preachers and sent it out, now to bring the Word, to put the eggs in the right position, place. Then He sent this same Word and anchors it out there, and then comes and hovers over it, by the Holy Ghost, until that Word becomes life in the human heart, and all devils out of hell couldn't keep life out of it. Yes, sir. No, no, whatever the egg is, if it's a duck egg, it'll bring a duck. If it's a chicken, it'll bring a chicken. If it's a bird, it'll bring a bird. If God promised salvation take it in...
It is I, be not afraid
62-0726 §9
Now, what is tumor? What is cancer? It's a multiplication of cells, come from a little backslidden cell. Now, you were made from one little cell, too. Now through holy wedlock, your mother and father had to do with you coming on earth. First is the seed. Or really, the egg comes from the female, and the germ comes from the male. Now, the hen can lay an egg, or a bird can lay an egg, and not even be with the male bird. But it'll never hatch. It's not fertile. See, it has to be with the mate to be fertile. Now, and s...