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WHICH CAME FIRST, THE HEN OR THE EGG?

A young skeptic said to an elderly lady, "I once believed there was a God, but now, since
studying philosophy and mathematics, I am convinced that God is but an empty word."
"Well" said the lady, "I have not studied such things, but since you have, can you tell me
where this egg comes from?"
"Why, of course, from a hen," was the reply.
"And where does the hen come from?"
"Why, from an egg."
Then the lady inquired, "Which existed first, the hen or the egg?" "
"The hen, of course." rejoined the young man.
"Oh, then a hen must have existed without having come from an egg.?"
"Oh, no, I mean that one egg existed without having come from the hen." The young man
hesitated: "Well, you see---that is--- of course, well the hen was first!"
"Very well," said she, "who made that first hen from which all the succeeding eggs and
hens have come?
"What do you mean by all this?'" he asked.
"Simply this: I say that He who created the first hen or egg is He who created the world.
You can't explain the existence of even a hen or an egg without God, and you wish me to
believe that you can explain the existence of the whole world without Him!"

Thus the old lady's common sense sent the young man's philosophy packing. Everything
finite must have had a beginning. But the important issue is, what is behind every finite
beginning? Is it self begun, or is there an infinite and eternal mind, a personality, behind
it, the same personality which is behind every finite beginning?" This personality John
chooses to call ho logos, "the Word"

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