WHAT IS IT?

This picture has nothing to do with this post but is my bride trying to figure out her complicated camera. Me I am an "instamatic" type of guy. To those of you too young to know what that is, my sympathy. My simple digital camera has replaced it. I was able to drive (safely) and still snap a shot of a pretty girl. Cool.
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I have two hints at the bottom to help you.

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 I never knew.

I did my Maker's law obey,

Nor 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

And 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 fear of fear 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.

HINT #1 - This was written originally in the 1800s.

HINT #2 - Only use a real Bible. One without errors or mistranslations.

Enjoy

HTOITA