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When William Blake wrote "Milton a poem" did he believe that Jesus did actually go to Glastonbury?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    He might have believed that -- the legend was widely preached, and Blake would have been the sort to run with it in his imagination. On the other hand, I think it's interesting that in the poem he doesn't really make the claim, just asks it, Y!A-question-wise. "And did the Countenance Divine / Shine forth upon our clouded hills?"

    Anyway, pious fiction is the basis for much if not most scripture. If Blake had lived and written around, say, 100 CE, his poem might have made it into Psalms, with the verb tenses covertly changed from past to future by snickering scribes, and then seized upon as Messianic prophecy by modern theologians.

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    5 years ago

    What approximately all the scriptures asserting God sent his SON? John 3:sixteen, 18 John 17:3 Colossians a million:15-17 Revelation 3:14 John a million:14 1John 4:9 Matthew 8:29 Matthew 3:sixteen,17 Nevermind those the place Christ refers to his Father: John 20:17 2Corinthians a million:3 John 8:17,18 John 5:19 John 6:40 John 7:sixteen Luke 4:18 Matthew 20:23 Luke 22:40 two Luke 23:40 six John 14:28 See additionally: Mark 12:32 1Corinthians 15:24,28 Matthew 14:33 additionally that scripture which you quoted (Matthew 27:40 six) does not coach that Jesus isn't God's son. That become Jesus crying out in the pangs of dying. yet you're good once you're saying God is the main Absolute God. Jesus is God's son yet he's not equivalent to God.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Actually it has been seriously suggested that Jesus DID visit England in his youth. The legend is that his uncle, Joseph of Arimethea, was a merchant who imported tin to the Holy Land--and the best tin in the world at that time came from Cornwall, in England. It's not inconceivable that Jesus travelled to England with his uncle, possibly with a view toward learning the tin trade.

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