Friday Riddle / Teaser

nudgie

I will be out until 21 June, so the answer will not get posted until Monday, 23 June.

RIDDLE: 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 to 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 seldom on earth appear.
For purpose wise 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 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 feat 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.

Betsydoglover

I am no good at this things, but it suddenly struck me that the answer might be "whale". No clue how many times "whale" is mentioned in the Bible, but Jonah could be the "living soul that was put in him" and whales don't have hands or feet.

Please don't laugh,
Betsy

PGLGreg

Betsydoglover said:

I am no good at this things, but it suddenly struck me that the answer might be "whale". No clue how many times "whale" is mentioned in the Bible, but Jonah could be the "living soul that was put in him" and whales don't have hands or feet.

Please don't laugh,
Betsy

Good guess! "To fallen man I give great light" by providing whale oil to a lamp.
-Greg