Riddles and Puzzles

WHO AM I RIDDLE?


Who Am I?

This riddle was written by a lady in California in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia that he would pay anyone $1,000.00 who could write a riddle he could not solve.

He failed to do so and paid the $ 1,000.00 prize. The answer appears only four times in the Bible.

Adam; God made out of dust,
But thought it was 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 then withdrew,
And more of Adam never knew.
I did my Maker’s law obey,
Nor went from it astray.
Thousands of miles I go in fear,
But seldom on earth appear.
For purpose wise which God did see,
He put a living soul in me.
A soul from me God did proclaim,
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 Scripture I cannot believe.
Although my name therein is found,
They are to me an empty sound.
No feet 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 your speed.
For that my name is written there,
I do honestly to you declare….
Who am I?