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- The Thousand Dollar Bible Puzzle
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- 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.
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- WHO AM I?
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- Adam, God made out of dust,
- But thought it best to make me first.
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- So I was made before man
- To answer God's most Holy plan.
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- A living thing I became,
- And Adam gave to me my name.
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- I from his presence withdrew,
- And more of Adam never knew.
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- I did my maker's law obey,
- Nor never went from it astray.
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- Thousands of miles I go in fear
- But seldom on earth do I appear.
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- For purpose wise--which God did see,
- He put a 'living soul' in me.
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- A soul from me God did claim,
- And took from me the soul again.
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- So when from me the soul had fled,
- I was the same as when first made.
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- And without hands, or feet, or soul--
- I travel now from pole to pole.
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- I labor hard by day, by night
- To fallen man I give 'great light.'
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- Thousands of people, young and old,
- Will, by my death, great light behold.
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- No right or wrong can I conceive,
- The Scripture I cannot believe.
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- Although my name therein is found,
- It is to me an empty sound.
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- No fear of death doth trouble me,
- Real happiness I'll never see.
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- To Heaven I shall never go,
- Neither, still, to hell below.
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- Now, when these lines you slowly read,
- Go search your Bible with all speed.
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- For that my name is written there,
- I honestly to you declare!
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- Answer: - - - - -
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