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
58-0620 §43
A man set a hen one time; he didn't have enough eggs for a setting, so he put a duck egg under the hen. This is not a joke; it's to make a point; this is no place for jokes. And when that little old duck hatched out, that's was the funniest thing them chickens ever looked at. That's about like a real believer and a nest full of these chickens we have around here. All of them picked on him, "Why, he must be a holy-roller; that big long bill, what's that for? Why does he waddle when he walks?" and so forth. He was a...
As the eagle stirreth up her nest
59-0815 §45
I heard a story one time, that there was a farmer that was going to set a hen. Now, I guess all you people know what it takes to make it setting of eggs. And he lacked one egg in having enough. And he put an eagle's egg under the hen. That's about the way it averages: one to a setting. But, however, when this little fellow was hatched out, he was a stranger in a strange land. That's the way when some of these places hatch out a eagle once in awhile. He didn't know what to do. He couldn't understand their language....
What think ye of Christ?
53-1213M §16
Well, they said that a hen could not lay an egg without ... if it couldn't be fertile, of course, if the male bird... She can lay an egg, but she ... the egg won't hatch unless it's been with the male, see. And a scientist once told me ... Not speaking scientist because my brother's here, but there was a scientist once went hunting with me out in the west. And I met him and he was about the roughest fellow I ever seen. He said, "Do you mean to tell me," when I told him I was a preacher he said, "You look too intell...
As the eagle stirreth up her nest
59-0815 §46
So then, the first thing you know, the clucking of the hen, he couldn't understand it. The chickens, their diet and the way they'd eat, why, he couldn't understand that. It'd turn his little stomach to see the way they eat. Sometime it does, a real Christian in an old formal church. The diet: bunco games, card parties, soup suppers for the preacher; God don't endorse that. So then the first thing you know, one day while he was out there running along by himself looking around, his little wings folded, didn't know w...
Proving His Word
65-0426 §98
As I made a crude little statement the other night... (I'm waiting for you all to get these handkerchiefs here. I'm not trying to preach over again.) But I said there was a little statement. I hope this don't sound sacrilegious, see. But like the farmer that set the hen and didn't have enough eggs... So he got an eagle egg, and he set it under the hen. And she hatched out an eagle. And he was a very odd fellow, amongst all the chickens, because they didn't see things alike. But that's all he ever seen, was the hen....