A Bible Riddle
 

 

Adam, God made out of dust, But thought it best to make me first.

So I was made before man, To answer God's most holy plan.

A living being I became and Adam gave to me my name.

I from his presence withdrew, and more of Adam never knew.

I did my Maker's laws obey, nor ever went from them astray.

Thousands of miles I go in fear, but seldom on earth appear.

For purpose wise which God did, He put a living soul in me.

That soul from me God did claim, and took from me the soul again.

So when from me the soul had fled, I was the same as when first made.

And without hands, or feet, or soul, I travel on from pole to pole.

I labor hard by day, by night, to fallen man I give great light.

Thousands of people, young and old, will by my death great light behold.

No right or wrong can I conceive, the scriptures I cannot believe.

Although my name therein is found, they are to me an empty sound.

No fear of death doth trouble me, real happiness I'll never see.

To Heaven I shall never go, nor down to awful hell below.

Now when these lines you slowly read, go search your Bible with all speed.

For that my name is written there, I do honestly unto you declare.

 

The answer is but one word and it appears in the KJV Bible only four times.

Some years ago, this puzzle was written by a lady from California in response to a man in Philadelphia who said that he would pay anyone $1,000.00 who could write a puzzle that he could not solve. He couldn't solve this puzzle and paid the money to her.

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