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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 give ,000 to anyone who could write a puzzle hs could not solve. He failed to do so and paid the 1,000….
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,
Now never 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 that 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 and by night,
To fallen man I have great might.
Thousands of people, young and old,
Will by my death great light behold.
No right or wrong can I concieve,
The scriptures I cannot believe.
Although my name therien 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,
Nor to hell below.
Now when these lines you slowly read,
Go search your Bibles with all speed.
For my name is written there,
I do honestly declare.
Please try to solve this simple little puzzeL The answer is one word found only four (4) times in the Bible* Search hard and you are surely to find much more than the word… And when you do find the word you will say "It’s too simple and everyone should know…"

It is common for ministers to say that the Bible is the Word of God, and John 1:1 says: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

So, the conclusion would be that the Bible is their God.

To make the puzzle even more interesting is the fact that Jesus himself was speaking about the Word of God in the Parable of the Sower, long before the New Testatment came along (and I doubt that he was sowing the Old Testament out to the people either)

I think the Word of God is something other than the Bible… something much more profound than 1500 pages of reading. So what do you think? Is the Bible the Word of God that Jesus was speakng about in the Parable of the Sower… and the Word which is found in John 1:1?

Or is the phrase "Word of God" just being used to elevate the status of people like Paul/Saul, who in fact was rather active in terrorizing the Original disciples (Acts 7:58-8:3).

Question from http://gospelenigma.com (Ch. 6)

Did Jesus Ask Judas to Betray Him?

Was there ever a Gospel According to Judas? An ancient book found in an Egyptian cave could be just that–and have an explosive message for Christians.
About three decades ago, a 2,000-year-old mystery surfaced when a farmer looking for treasure in an Egyptian cave instead found a decaying leather-bound book, called a Codex, written in ancient Coptic. Not realizing what he had, he sold it to an antiquities dealer.
Five years after the Codex was found, a scholar named Stephen Emmel was asked to look at it, but under the condition he not photograph it or make any notes. He told ABC’s "Primetime" that he leafed through it and spotted a dialogue between Jesus and Judas and his disciples. "The name Judas came up again and again," he recalled. Then for 16 years it sat crumbling in, of all places, a safe-deposit box in a Long Island, N.Y., Citibank. In 2000 it was sold to former antiquities dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos, who told "Primetime," "I think the circumstances of this manuscript coming to me were predestined. Judas was asking me to do something for him."
National Geographic and ABC News report scholars now think this is the long lost Gospel of Judas that was banned by the early church as blasphemous and ordered destroyed. Deciphering it was a monumental task since the 13 pieces of papyrus were in more than 1,000 pieces. Swiss restorer Florence Darbre and her partner painstakingly fit the tiny pieces together like an ancient jigsaw puzzle. Then Emmel and another scholar, Rodolphe Kasser, were called in to authenticate the text. "I’ve looked at hundreds of papyri, Coptic papyri, in my career, and this is absolutely typical of ancient Coptic manuscripts," Emmel told "Primetime." "I’m completely convinced." The final task was to use radio carbon-dating to authenticate it, which meant destroying tiny pieces of the precious document. The result? The text was written between the third and fourth century and is believed to be a copy of a much older document written in Greek in the second century.
What it has to say could shake Christianity to its core: The Bible says that Judas is the one who betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver, handing him over for crucifixion, an act that damned him for all time. But this Gospel of Judas tells it differently: Jesus asked Judas to betray him.
"Now, the Gospel of Judas also has Judas say to Jesus in fear and terror that he has a dream that the other disciples will hate him and will stone him to death, will attack him, Elaine Pagels, a professor at Princeton University and one of the world’s foremost experts on ancient religious texts, told "Primetime." "And Jesus says, ‘Yes, in fact, they will think that you are a terrible person because of what you did. This is part of the burden that you bear. But they will be wrong about that.’ So it is an extraordinary transformation of the ordinary understanding of Judas Iscariot."
What does it mean? Pagels says that it shows Judas’s betrayal of Jesus was not a reprehensible act or the act of a traitor. "It’s a secret mystery between him and Jesus."
Herbert Krosney, author of "The Lost Gospel: The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot," goes even further. He calls Judas "the favored disciple of Jesus," adding, "He is the one whose star shines in the heavens and in the skies, and Judas, therefore, becomes unique. He is Jesus’s best friend rather than his betrayer."
Pagels admits there is no historical proof for the Gospel of Judas, just as there is no historical proof for the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. However, she is quick to say, "The Christian message is a message about faith and hope and, you know, the relationship between God and human beings. It’s not a matter of historical fact."
–From the Editors at Netscape