Biblical Puzzle
This puzzle was written by a lady in California in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia that he would pay anyone $1,000 who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to solve this puzzle and paid the $1,000 to the lady.
The answer is one word, and appears only four times in the King James Bible.
"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 me my name.
I from his presence then withdrew
And more of Adam never knew.
I did my Maker's Law Obey
Nor ever went from it astray.
Thousands of miles I go in fear
But seldon on earth appear.
For purpose wise which God did see.
He put a living soul in me.
A 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 give great light.
Thousands of people young and old
Will by my death great light behold.
No right or wrong can I conceive
The Scripture 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,
Or to 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 to you declare.
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