This puzzle was created by a lady in California in 1890 in response to a gentleman in Philadelphia who would pay $1,000 to anyone who could write a puzzle he could not solve. He failed to solve it and paid the lady $1,000. The answer is one word and appears only four times in the Bible. There are five letters in the word. An eight year old boy figured it out.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.
From his presence I then withdrew and more of Adam I 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 the earth 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 on from pole to pole.
I labor hours by day, by night to follow man to give him light.
Thousands of people, young and old, will by my death great light behold.
No right or wrong can I conceive, the scriptures I cannot believe.
Although my name therein is found, they are to me an empty sound.
No fear 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, so search your Bible with all speed,
For that my name is there, I do honestly to you declare.EMAIL YOUR ANSWER AND WHY YOU THINK IT SO.