A Bible Riddle

  Many years ago, a prominent merchant promised an eccentric old
Lady a prize if, taking her subject from the Bible, she would
compose a riddle which he could not guess. She won with the
following:

Adam, God made out of dust, but thought it best to make me first;
So I was made before the Man, to answer God's most Holy Plan.

My body God did make complete, but without arms, or legs, or feet;
My ways and acts He did control, but to my body gave no soul.

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 from it ever went astray;
Thousands of miles I go in fear, but seldom in the Earth appear.

For purpose wise, which God did see, He put a living soul in me.
A soul from me my God did claim; and took from me that soul again.

For when from me the soul had fled, I was the same as when first
made;
And without hands, or feet, or soul,  I travel from pole to pole.

I labor hard by day and 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 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 ne'er see;
To Heaven I shall never go,  or to the grave, or Hell below.

Now when these lines you slowly read, go search the Bible with all
speed,
For that my name's recorded there, I honestly to you declare.

What am I ?

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