Puritan Corner - The 2 Voices of a Pastor

"The pastor ought to have two voices; 

One for gathering the sheep;
and another for driving away wolves."

by John Calvin (1509-1564) 

.....where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? Jeremiah 13:20

Hitler's "storm troopers of Jesus Christ"

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:  Jeremiah 17:19

We know that atheistic inspired Communism (an EVIL Political ideology) is openly Hostile towards Christianity.....But what of the other more paganistic inspired Nazism (an EVIL Political  ideology)?

 

"Germany, like the rest of Europe, was primarily Christian when the Nazis rose to power. In 1933 the country had approximately 45 million Protestant Christians, 22 million Catholic Christians, 500,000 Jews and 25,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses. Religion was a huge part of people’s everyday life and culture.

 

HITLER

Hitler’s mother was a devout Catholic. His father considered religion a scam.

Though Hitler was impressed and inspired by the hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church, he grew to view its spiritual teachings, Redlich wrote, with an “impotent rage” because of the church’s “formidable power, which he was unable to replace by what he called science and reason.” William Jennings Bryan, the great American statesman and Christian spokesman, had learned -"that it was Darwinism that was at the basis of that damnable doctrine that might makes right that had spread over Gernany."

In a memorandum submitted to Hitler on June 4, 1936, the German Evangelical Church questioned whether the Chancellor was trying "to dechristianize the German people." (Hitler had little place in his heart for a religion that worshiped a Jew.) 

Of even more significance is the statement: " When, within the compass of the National Socialist view of life, an anti-Semitism is forced on the Christian that binds him to hatred of the Jew, the Christian injunction to love one's neighbor still stands, for him, opposed to it."

Bullock, in describing Hitler as a “rationalist and materialist,” quotes him in a wartime conversation with aides as saying:

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science ... Gradually the myths crumble. All that is left to prove that nature there is no frontier between the organic and inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light, but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.

By 1942, Hitler vowed, according to Bullock, to “root out and destroy the influence of the Christian Churches,” describing them as “the evil that is gnawing our vitals.....I can’t at present give them the answer they’ve been asking for,” Hitler said. “The time will come when I’ll settle my account with them. They’ll hear from me all right.” But first, he had to finish off the Jews. 

HIMMLER

Himmler, like Hitler, was raised Catholic and remained so at least until 1924,when he began to doubt Christianity. Around this time, Himmler also became "increasingly preoccupied with works that,in his views, dealt with occult phenomena in a serious 'scholarly' way."

Himmler's personal beliefs were transformed by Teutonic and Germanic myths, which supported the superiority of the German

race, and many occult ideas. He was obsessed with the idea that Germans were superior to all other races by blood right. Himmler became "violently anti-Catholic and anti-Christian,substituting for the faith... those particular superstitions...that suited his Germanic prejudice." He desired Germany to be restored to its theological roots, free of Christianity. Christianity directly opposed Himmler's "demographic revolution" and, as a result, needed to be eliminated by any means necessary. These beliefs became the policy of Himmler's SS and would result in the SS distancing itself from and openly attacking the Church. Overall, Himmler was prepared to purify Germany of Christianity by using the security institutions of the state.

 

CATHOLICS--Friend or Foe?

As Catholics had a single, central leader in the Pope, infiltrating and taking control of the religion was extremely difficult. Instead, Hitler opted for a policy of conciliation towards Catholics.

In July 1933, the Nazis signed a Concordat with the Vatican . The Concordat agreed that the Nazis would not interfere in the Catholic Church. In return, the Vatican would diplomatically recognize the Nazi regime.

The Nazis soon broke their Concordat with the Vatican. The Ministry for Church Affairs was established in 1935 with a range of anti-religious policies aimed at undermining the influence of religion on the German people.'

"The Catholic Church need not imagine that we are going to create martyrs,'' Robert Wagner, the Nazi Gauleiter of Baden, said in a speech, according to the O.S.S. study. ''We shall not give the church that satisfaction. She shall have not martyrs, but criminals.''

Catholic schools were gradually shut. As the regime intensified its oppressive policies in the late 1930s, members of the Catholic Clergy were killed and imprisoned for opposing the Nazi regime. Johannes Neuhäusler is just one example of a Catholic priest who was imprisoned at the hands of the Nazis.

 

PROTESTANTS-- Replace with a "New" Church

While conservatives, the Christian churches ''could not be reconciled with the principle of racism, with a foreign policy of unlimited

aggressive warfare, or with a domestic policy involving the complete subservience of Church to State.'' Given that these were the fundamental underpinnings of the Nazi regime, 'conflict was inevitable.....the Nazis simply lied and made deals with the churches while planning a ''slow and cautious policy of gradual encroachment'' to eliminate Christianity.

Nazis’, with the support of the German Christians, established the Reich Church under the leadership of Ludwig Müller  in 1933. The Reich Church aimed to be a new national church which advocated a form of Nazi Christianity. By January of 1934, Müller was vowing to purge Protestant churches of all “Jewish influence,” including removing the Old Testament from their Bible because it is based on the Hebrew bible.

Protestants in Germany differed not only in their religious practices but also in their political views. A few openly opposed the Nazis, while others saw themselves as neutral. Still others actively supported Nazism, calling themselves “storm troopers of Jesus Christ.”

However, not everyone was willing to accept this new church. In 1934, the Confessing Church was founded by Martin Niemöller . The Confessing Church openly opposed the Nazi regime, and stressed the church’s autonomy from political interference. Also, the members of the Confessing Church opposed the German Christian movement’s changes to the Bible. Many of the pastors from the Confessing Church, such as Niemöller, were imprisoned in concentration camps for their views. 

One member of the Confessing Church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, did resist the actions of the Nazis more broadly. In April 1933, he professed sympathy for Jewish victims of Nazism and argued that National Socialism and Christianity were incompatible. He later became an important symbol of resistance to Nazi Germany and was executed for his role in a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1945.

The German Christian movement (Reich Church) made significant changes to German Protestantism to bring it in line with Nazi racial ideology. Instead of classifying people as Christians or Jews based on their faith, as the Protestants had always done, German Christians began to classify people by racial heritage, as the Nazis did. 

Nazi street mobs, often in the company of the Gestapo, routinely stormed offices in Protestant and Catholic churches where clergymen were seen as lax in their support of the regime.

 

Influence of "Liberal" theology

By 1930, Liberal Protestant church leaders in Germany had come to believe that the Jewish people, like their Bible, had served their purpose and therefore the Jewish roots of Christianity were to be denied as well: "We must emphasize with all decisiveness that

Christianity did not grow out of Judaism but developed in opposition to Judaism. When we speak of Christianity and Judaism today, the two in their most fundamental essence stand in glaring contrast to one another. There is no bond between them, rather the sharpest opposition." (Reich Bishop Ludwig Muller, 1934).

Alfred Rosenberg, publisher of Der Stürmer, (the weekly Nazi newspaper most notorious for its antisemitic cartoons) was the link between nineteenth-century Liberal Protestantism and Hitler’s twentieth-century Aryan agenda. Doris Bergen, professor of history at Notre Dame explains:

Alfred Rosenberg dubbed the Old Testament a collection of “stories of pimps and cattle traders”; but the high school religion teacher and German Christian agitator Reinhold Krause earned sustained applause in November 1933, when he repeated that phrase at a rally of twenty thousand people.

It was in this setting that Liberal Protestant pastors founded the German Christian Movement in 1932. They wanted to create a “Reich” or “state” church that all German Protestant Christians would rally around; their symbol was a Christian cross with a swastika in the middle. They did not hold to a high view of Scripture; conversely they were devoted to eradicating Old Testament readings from their worship services and they even altered the New Testament so as to excise references to the Jewish people or worse, demonize them. 

 

Response of "Conservative" Theologians

In 1934, theologically conservative pastors and theologians founded the Confessing Church, a movement broad enough to include

Lutheran, Reformed and United churches of Germany. Committed to resisting the downward tide of the German Christian Movement, their theological underpinnings can be found in the Barmen Declaration written largely by Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth. This statement not only affirmed the key doctrines of the Christian faith, but also served as a protest against the Liberal Protestant Church that embraced Hitler’s ideology. The declaration repudiated any other doctrine as false that made the church “an organ of the State” or that gave religious status to “ruling powers.”

These theologians were devoted to belief in the inspiration and authority of both the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. They were opposed to Hitler and his perversion of the Scriptures.

 

Re-Written "Bible"?

During the Third Reich, German theologians redefined Jesus as an

Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life.

With headquarters in Eisenach, the Institute sponsored propaganda conferences throughout the Nazi Reich and published books defaming Judaism, including a dejudaized version of the New Testament and a catechism proclaiming Jesus as the savior of the Aryans.

 

STAINED GLASS WINDOWS of Hitler in Churches

German historian Michael Kuderna ....His most recent book is about Hitler images in churches.

In the course of his research, he found five images of Hitler that predate 1945 and nine that date to after 1945. With the early images, it can be difficult to prove they really show the dictator, but the later images clearly show Hitler, for instance as an executioner, or a villain burning in hell.

"After the war, depicting Hitler in churches was no longer as problematic as before 1945, when people feared retribution," the historian explains.

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IN the NEWS - Oh, Canada

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 22:5

"Recently, Canadian TV aired a special program aimed at normalizing

drag to children. 

First, introducing children to such a thing may confuse children about their own identity. 

Drag performances are also often provocative and sexualized in nature. 

Furthermore, there are concerns that exposing children to drag is just another way to promote a specific political agenda by the Left." TP

IN the NEWS - "Robots" vs. Ezekiel 18:4

 .....the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Ezekiel 18:4

"The 75-year-old computer scientist and former Google engineer,

who received the National Medal of Technology in 1999 and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002, made this shocking prediction — and many others — in recent decades.

Now, as the fated date approaches, Kurzweil’s comments on immortality have resurfaced in a two–part YouTube series by tech vlogger Adagio..... in this 2005 book, “The Singularity Is Near,” in which he predicted that technology will allow humans achieve to everlasting life by 2030.

Kurzweil has previously suggested that, in less than a decade, humans will have created technology to fend off aging and illness with microscopic robots, sent to repair our bodies on a cellular level. And, indeed, medical engineers are currently fast at work on these disease-fighting bots.

He also claims that such nanotechnology will allow people to eat whatever they want while staying thin and energized. 

Silicon Valley billionaires including Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos have meanwhile put a lot of stock in Kurzweil’s predictions, dedicating their careers to developing technology that will enable humans to live well into their hundreds." NYP

Creation Moment 3/31/2023 - That Cliche that is a Crwon of Pride

Woe to the crown of pride.... Isaiah 28:1

"Being “pro-science” has become a bizarre cultural phenomenon in which liberals (and other members of the cultural elite) engage in public displays of self-reckoned intelligence as a kind of performance art, while demonstrating zero evidence to justify it. "

Jeremy Samuel Faust, Slate Magazine, April 2017

Korah's Rebellion Simplified

But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness,... 2 Peter 2:10 

"In the rebellion of Korah is seen the working out, upon a narrower stage, of the same spirit that led to the rebellion of Satan in heaven. 

 

It was pride and ambition that prompted Lucifer to complain of the

government of God, and to seek the overthrow of the order which had been established in heaven. 

Since his fall it has been his object to infuse the same spirit of envy and discontent, the same ambition for position and honor, into the minds of men. He thus worked upon the minds of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, to arouse the desire for self-exaltation and excite envy, distrust, and rebellion. 

Satan caused them to reject God as their leader, by rejecting the men of God's appointment. Yet while in their murmuring against Moses and Aaron they blasphemed God, they were so deluded as to think themselves righteous, and to regard those who had faithfully reproved their sins as actuated by Satan. 

 

Q: Do not the same evils still exist that lay at the foundation of Korah's ruin? 

Pride and ambition are widespread; 

--and when these are cherished, they open the door to envy, and a striving for supremacy; 

--the soul is alienated from God, and unconsciously drawn into the ranks of Satan.... 

 

 It is by sinful indulgence that men give Satan access to their minds, and they go from one stage of wickedness to another. The rejection of light darkens the mind and hardens the heart, so that it is easier for them to take the next step in sin and to reject still clearer light, until at last their habits of wrongdoing become fixed. Sin ceases to appear sinful to them." E.G.W.

The Sons of Korah

[[To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.]] As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Psalm 42:1

"That choice band of singers, the sons of Korah, are bidden to make this delightful Psalm one of their peculiars. They had been spared when their father and all his company, and all the children of his associates were swallowed up alive in their sin.  

And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign. Notwithstanding the children of Korah died not.  

Numbers 26:10,11. 

 

They were the spared ones of grace. Preserved, we know not why, by the distinguishing favor of God, it may be surmised that after remarkable mercy, they became so filled with gratitude that they addicted themselves to sacred music in order that their spared lives might be consecrated to the glory of God. 

 

At any rate, 

---we who have been rescued as they were from going down into the pit, out of the mere good pleasure of Jehovah, can heartily join in this Psalm, and indeed in all the songs which show forth the praises of our God and the pantings of our hearts after Him. 

 

Although David is not mentioned as the author, this Psalm must be the offspring of his pen; it is so Davidic, it smells of the son of Jesse, it bears the marks of his style and experience in every letter. We could sooner doubt the authorship of the second part of Pilgrim's Progress than question David's title to be the composer of this Psalm."

Charles Spurgeon

SDA Issues - Rebellion that Exceeds Korah's

And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD....And he took away the sodomites out of the land... 1 Kings 15:11,12

 

"Female headship and LGBTQ+ share the same ethical trajectory, 

---the former loosening the anchor pins of the gender binary 

---and the latter uprooting the binary altogether.

Saša Gunjević, pastor of the Hamburg-Grindelberg Adventist Church in north Germany, announced to his congregation on January 7 that he was ‘bi-sexual’.

Four days later, the Hanse Conference in North Germany issued a statement of affirmation, supporting Saša Gunjević in spite of his bisexual announcement. President Dennis Meier signed the statement of affirmation.

According to the Bible, this man is completely unqualified to be a pastor in a Christian church. He should be removed at once on the basis of the biblical principles in 1 Thessalonians 5:22 and 1 Timothy 3:2. Justifying unholy lust in your life is not “abstaining from every appearance of evil”, but rather celebrating it.

Keep in mind that the North German Union was one of the first Unions to vote for female headship (2012). Here we are 11 years later and they are approving a bi-sexual pastor in their territory. 

The Hanse Conference had their March Association meeting two Sundays ago and concluded the following in another statement:

• We have received a complaint regarding Pastor Gunjević’s sexuality last year. Coupled with his admission of being bi-sexual, the Hanse Conference decided that there was no reason to remove his credentials as a pastor. He stays, as a bi-sexual Seventh-day Adventist pastor." Fulcrum7

Creation Moment 3/30/2023 - A Physicist finds it BREATHTAKING

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,... Psalm 8:3

"To a physicist like me, life looks to be a little short of magic: all those

dumb molecules conspiring to achieve such clever things!

Q: How do they do it? 

– just mindless atoms pushing and pulling on each other, kicked about by random thermal fluctuations. 

Yet the end product is an exquisite and highly distinctive form of order. Even chemists, who are familiar with the amazing transformative powers of molecules, find it breathtaking."

Paul Davies, The Eerie Silence, Astrobiology Magazine, April 15, 2010

Even at the Dark Polar Caps the Sabbath Can be Kept

 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: Exodus 20:10

"The wisdom of God has given to our earth a globular form, and has
caused it to revolve upon its axis. 

So far is this from presenting any real difficulty in the way of those who keep the definite seventh day, it is actually that without which such observance would be impossible. 

--For if our earth stood still, one side would have perpetual day, and the other side unending night. There could be in that case no succession of day and night, and no such thing as a seventh day. 

--But by the divine arrangement of a revolving globular world, the definite seventh day comes to all the inhabitants of the earth, and they can observe it, if they have a heart to obey God. 

--Even the dwellers within the polar circles, where for a season it is all night, and for another season all day, can readily determine the revolution of the earth upon its axis, and can, if they are so disposed, observe the Sabbath of the Lord." 

J.N. Andrews

Creation Moment 3/29/2023 - Evolution's Weak Chain

 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. Colossians 1:17

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. 

And a Darwinian pathway is only as likely as its most improbable step. It matters not a whit whether later helpful mutations are easily acquired. It matters only that some steps are exceedingly unlikely."  Michael Behe, ENV, reply to Ken Miller 1/16/2015

The Deccan Traps

 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.  Genesis 7:12

"It wasn’t the Chicxulub meteor impact in Mexico that wiped out the dinosaurs, but monumental volcanic eruptions in India. That’s what paleontologist Gerta Keller and geochemist Thierry Adatte claim in their poster presentations to the Geological Society of America,

The gigantic lava flows of the Deccan Traps extend 600 miles across India and are more than 3,000 ft. thick. 80% of the lava gushed from the eruptions in one main phase, spewing ten times more gas into the atmosphere than the Chicxulub meteor impact.

Keller’s revival of an old idea is based on her study of a 30 ft. layer of marine sediment sandwiched between two lava ‘traps’ near the Bay of Bengal. 

 

The cataclysmic eruptions point to rapid processes. 

Thick sedimentation means lots of water. Such evidence for large-scale watery catastrophe is consistent with Noah’s Flood but seems to have been missed because of a blinding belief in long ages." CMI

IN the NEWS - Deluded Dude Used by Lucifer to Kill Christians

 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. John 8:44

 "The shooter has been identified as female-to-male transgender
individual Audrey Hale, according to Nashville PD.....A 28-year-old woman carried out a mass shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday, resulting in the deaths of at least three children and three staff members. The Tennessean reported that police killed the female shooter.....Don Aaron, a spokesperson for the Metro Nashville Police Department, said the female shooter entered The Covenant School on Burton Hills Boulevard with two rifles and a handgun."  ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 3/28/2023 - Northup's Admission....

"The ultimate ‘mystery’ in LiveScience’s ‘Greatest Mysteries’ series, ‘How did life arise on earth?’ contained this candid admission from geologist Diana Northup of the University of New Mexico, USA:

‘Many theories of the origin of life have been proposed, but since it’s hard to prove or disprove them, no fully accepted theory exists’.

However, evolutionists continue to cling to the idea that no Creator was necessary (knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the

last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, 2 Peter 3:3–5)." CMI

Post-Flood Ice Cores

 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. Genesis 7:24

"Interestingly, in the upper halves of the Greenland ice cores, creationist and uniformitarian age assignments agree to within a factor of two or three of one another. Only in the bottom halves of the Greenland cores do uniformitarian and creationist age estimates dramatically diverge. Yet, the counting process is most difficult and uncertain in the bottom core sections, where ‘jumps’ in dust content are assumed to represent seasonal cycles. However, several factors together can plausibly account for overcounting in the bottoms of the Greenland cores.  

 

First, seventyfold variations in dust content in the core bottoms complicate the counting process.

Second, individual storms (thousands of which would be expected in

a post-Flood Ice Age lasting hundreds of years) can change ice dust content. 

Third, uniformitarian expectations of very thin annual layers in the bottom core sections contribute to overcounting.

Moreover, creationists have pointed out that the frequencies and thicknesses of tephra layers within the deep Antarctic ice cores are more consistent with young-Earth expectations as is the lack of erosion of the Gamburtsev Mountains beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet.

 

For the above reasons, I think creationists have refuted claims that ice cores demand an old Earth." CMI

Creation Moment 3/27/2023 - Knee Joint Lesson

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,...

Ephesians 3:14

 

"Very often one finds at the beginning of a scientific article, or at the end, a little word of praise for the wonders that are seen in nature. This praise is directed by the evolutionist to the evolutionary processes. To the creationist this praise is rightfully directed to the Creator.

 

An interesting example of misdirected praise is found at the end of a paper titled ‘The Surgical Replacement of the Human Knee Joint’ by David Sonstehard et al (Scientific American) It reads:

‘Even then, patients, surgeons and engineers should not forget that the natural human knee joint is a remarkable product of evolutionary engineering. Although it can be imitated with increasing success, it will never be duplicated.’

The creationist knows that time and chance are destructive, not Creative. He also knows that he will not be able to duplicate the natural knee joint perfectly, because his skills and intelligence are so much less than those of his Creator." ExNihlo

Observe Around You.....

....ye can discern the face of the sky; 

but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Matthew 16:3

 

"We want to understand the time in which we live. 

We do not half understand it. 

We do not half take it in.  

Those who cannot see the signs of the times in this wicked and adulterous generation will be found with those who perish from the vials of God’s wrath." E.G.W.

Genetic Variation Simplified

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth....And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...

Genesis 11:9/Acts 17: 26

"In a brief commentary article on human Y chromosome studies, renowned evolutionist John Maynard Smith shows that ‘the Y chromosome data agree with those on mitochondria in showing that most variation is present within racial groups’.  

--- By this he means there is more variation within an individual

group than between the average of any two groups. 

*This of course means that there is a substantial overlap between the human races, a fact far more consistent with a recent origin for such races than with the idea of great ages of separate development.

It also means that most of the variation (the many different characteristics in the human race) was present before the races separated across the world. 

---The evolutionist of course believes that this variation arose prior to that time by accidental mutations; creationists believe that the information was created.

In the sentence after the above quote, Maynard Smith makes this very telling point:

‘From this it would seem that most of the present variation was already present in an ancestral human population, before descendants of that population migrated world-wide.’

Note that this has to be the case if the Biblical model is true, but from an evolutionary viewpoint, there was no reason to necessarily expect this. If evolution were true, the genetic data could just as easily have shown that the races obtained many of their differences after their separation.

This, in fact, has been the traditional evolutionary belief. This belief, now shown to be genetically unsound, is usually the background to questions sceptical of how separate races could have arisen from Noah’s family. 

The questioners reason that such characteristics could only have come from long periods of separate development within each race. 

-*-If all these genetic factors were mostly present before the races spread across the earth (which is what evolutionist Maynard Smith is admitting in the above quote), a long timespan is no longer necessary." CMI

Creation Moment 3/26/2023 - Answer to Age Old Question: Which Came First? The Chicken Or The Egg?

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 3:20

 

"God could have created a mother to take care of the baby. 

Q: That is true, but where would she have come from? In other words, the obvious answer to this problem of the logical point for the commencement of the great cycle of living organisms is the adult. 

A: And so God created Adam suddenly, as an adult, and Eve suddenly, as an adult—by purely supernatural methods not observable in our present world. 

God’s creative plan introduced adult human beings fully capable of

bringing forth their own children and caring for them as today.

The Bible, then, does shed light on the question of which came first, the hen or the egg. Obviously God created the hen first, capable of laying her own eggs and hatching them. And thus the cycle of life began with the adult: full-grown fruit trees, adult animals, Adam and Eve." CMI