CAN YOU
FIGURE THIS OUT?
God made Adam out of the dust,
But he thought it best to make me first;
So I was made before the man, according to God's Holy plan.
My whole body God made complete, without arms or hands or feet.
My ways and acts did God control, but in my body he placed no soul,
a living being 1 became, and Adam gave to me a name.
All my maker's laws I do obey, and from these laws 1 never stray.
Thousands of me go in fear, but seldom on the earth appear.
Later, for a purpose God did see, He placed a living soul in me.
But that soul of mine God had to claim, and from me took it back again.
And when this soul from me had fled, I was the same when first made;
without arms, legs, feet or soul, 1 travel on from pole to pole.
My labors are from day to night
and to men I once furnished light.
Thousands of people both young and old, did by my death bright lights behold,...
No right or wrong can I conceive;
The Bible and its' teachings I can't believe.
The fear of death doesn't trouble me; pure happiness 1 will never see.
And up in Heaven I can never go, nor in the grave or Hell below.
So get your Bible and read with care; you'll find my name recorded there.
(This puzzle was written by a lady in California in 1890 in response to a gentlemen in Philadelphia, who said that he would pay 1000 dollars
to anyone who could write a puzzle he could not solve.
He failed to do so and paid the lady $1,000.00 )
( which was a great sum at that time).
The answer is one word,
five letters long
and appears only 4 times
in the King James Version of the Bible.
An 8 year old boy figured it out.
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