Paul’s matter-of-fact acknowledgment, born of twenty years of first-hand experience, that the message he was preaching – that salvation as to be had through a crucified God – was considered by everyone to be either deeply obscene or totally, completely, tin-foil-hat ridiculous.
Greg Gilbert

The Thousand Dollar Bible Puzzl

The Thousand Dollar Bible Puzzl

The Thousand Dollar Bible Puzzle

This puzzle was written by a lady in California in response to an offer from a gentleman in Philadelphia that he would pay $1000 to anyone who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to solve this puzzle, and paid the $1000. The answer to the puzzle is only one word, and appears only four times in the Bible.

If you can’t figure it out, let me know. I did and it was quite easy.

Sysop, Phil Scovell.

WHO AM I?

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 thing 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 law obey,
Nor never went from it astray.

Thousands of miles I go in fear
But seldom on earth do I 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 now 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,
It is to me an empty sound.

No fear of death doth trouble me,
Real happiness I’ll never see.

To Heaven I shall never go,
Neither, still, 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 honestly to you declare!

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