What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

That is one of those sayings you hear periodically; just like, “Is your glass half-empty, or half-full?”, “Actions speak louder than words”, “After my own heart”, “An idle mind is the devil’s playground”, and, “If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound?” (There are way too many to list, but I found them at clichesite.com if you wanna check it out.)

Anyway, really, what came first; the chicken or the egg? Well, technically (and Biblically) speaking, the chicken came first. I don’t even know why that’s a question. Genesis (the first book of God’s Word) says in chapter 1, verses 24 and 25, “And God said, ‘Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.’ And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.”

So, if God made the egg first, it would have had nothing to keep it warm and safe until it was ready to hatch. And then, it would have nothing to teach it how to eat and survive.

Also, in Genesis chapter 1, verses 26-27, the Word of the Lord says, “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

That means that God, who, when He says, “us” in Genesis 1:26, He means “Us: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”… Team God, if you will. So, He, God, with His Son and Holy Spirit, created these things, among others. He made man, and from man, he made woman. He did not make baby, and let it cry and starve and try to teach itself to survive as an infant and wait for it to grow and start reproducing. No… God wanted fully-grown managers to employ as Earth’s groundskeepers.

“God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’”, Genesis 1:28.

Babies have to wait a long time, if they even make it that far without parents to care for them, before they can multiply and then rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground. That would mean that there would be a state of unruliness, or mild chaos, throughout the Earth until the baby became a man, if it was even successful in sustaining it’s own survival and growth.

God gave us parents, or leaders, just like he did with baby chicks.

So, considering the ways in which He did the His other great works, it would seem fairly unlikely that God would make a vulnerable little chicken egg before it made the parent chicken to care for it and teach it and keep it safe.

I challenge you to look into other clichés, as I will, and cross-reference them with God’s Word to see the truth, or lack thereof, behind each.