What's the answer to this riddle?!?

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  • MakeMeGrrrrowl
    Grrrrrrrrr
    • Oct 2002
    • 4984

    #1

    What's the answer to this riddle?!?

    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 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 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 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 declare!


    I can't figure it out
  • who
    So Fucking Banned
    • Aug 2003
    • 19593

    #2
    A fish.

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    • who
      So Fucking Banned
      • Aug 2003
      • 19593

      #3
      Or a whale?

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      • azguy
        Confirmed User
        • Nov 2004
        • 5167

        #4
        Leviathan, the whale.

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        • azguy
          Confirmed User
          • Nov 2004
          • 5167

          #5
          100% the whale.

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          • Krille
            Confirmed User
            • Mar 2002
            • 2436

            #6
            http://www.pioneernet.net/abbott/Hum...es/Riddle.html

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            • MakeMeGrrrrowl
              Grrrrrrrrr
              • Oct 2002
              • 4984

              #7
              Thank you =)

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              • StuartD
                Sofa King Band
                • Jul 2002
                • 29903

                #8
                It is Leviathan, the whale. Genesis says all living creatures were
                created before Man, and that Man named them all in turn, after which they withdrew
                to their several habitiats. Since the whale lives in the ocean, it knew
                Adam no more, and by travelling from pole to pole, it labours night and
                day.

                Whales, possess neither "hands nor feet", but flippers and tail, and as
                mere animals in the Theological sense, they have no soul and no sense of right
                and wrong. Since they are at the top of their food chain, they do not
                customarily fear death, and they only "appear on earth" when they are
                beached accidentally.

                When God put Jonah in the belly of the Leviathan, then rescued him, he
                placed a living soul in a whale, then took it out again.

                In the 19th Century, when Biblical conundra like this were most popular,
                whale oil was the preferred source of lamp-light, as it burned cleanly and
                with little odour. And of course, a hunted whale might well run for miles
                in fear.
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                • thePelican
                  Confirmed User
                  • Oct 2003
                  • 663

                  #9
                  A Whale

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