So, here is the question- the age old question… “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” This question pondered over hundreds-maybe thousands- of years has, according to John Morris, PhD of the Institute for Creation Research a very simple answer.
Here it is:
According to the Creator of chickens, and the author of the Record of their origins, chickens came first. It was on the Fifth Day of Creation Week that He created "every winged fowl after [their] kind" (Genesis1:21) complete with the DNA to reproduce that kind. Then He "blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply" (v.22) using that DNA. For the chickens this meant lay chicken eggs. Problem solved.
There you have it. Case closed…on that anyway.
In asking the question initially (in my head), I wasn’t really looking for an answer to that question, but was instead wanting to compare it to something else all together. But, finding the answer to this question is really the proof for my comparison.
Stay with me…
Here’s how this entry was meant to go:
Which came first- the chicken or the egg? Who knows the answer to this age old question? It’s been puzzling scholars, scientists, and even children for many years. So let’s just say for the sake of argument that no one knows and move on.
Let’s say someone asked this question instead- which came first, God or God’s Word? What if someone is trying to figure out what they believe…do you tell them to believe God or His Word first? Maybe for this person to believe either they have to know which came first.
Enter John… John 1:1 that is. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
There’s your answer. The Word of God and God are one in the same. You can’t separate the two. You can’t believe one and not the other. Problem solved. Case closed.
If we’re willing to believe God, then we have to also believe His Word, and vice-versa. We can’t pull out the parts of His Word we want to believe and forget the parts we don’t. In doing so, we are in essence saying we only believe part of God.
Every question we have can be answered in His Word. Every doubt…every problem…every fear…everything can be asked, answered, and put to rest in God and His Word.
Case in point- which came first, the chicken or the egg? God’s Word says He created birds, and chickens are birds, so that’s all I need to know.
Problem solved and case closed.
