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Tuesday, 12 October 2021

Wiliam Shakespeare: a brief history.

 William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.


Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-AvonWarwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearancehis sexualityhis religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them HamletRomeo and JulietOthelloKing Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.

Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime. However, in 1623, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that included all but two of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".

The most insulting aspect of the E.C.T lie.

Acts17:28KJV"For in him we live, and move, and have our being;..."

The doctrine of eternal conscious torment of the irreformably wicked has the necessary effect of making JEHOVAH God the main accessory to eternal corruption. 

As the quoted text shows there is no life(consciousness or motion) apart from God. Thus the eternal life that would make the eternal corruption suggested by this doctrine possible could only come from him. The scriptures assure us that JEHOVAH'S holiness precludes his perpetual enabling of sin. 

Indeed death is the end of sin.

James1:15KJV"Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16Do not err, my beloved brethren"

Note that death is the finish of sin. There is no sin after death. 

Romans6:7KJV"For he that is dead is freed from sin"

Thus there is no intermediate state between death and resurrection in which the wicked continue to sin. For the wicked to continue sinning perpetually JEHOVAH would need to resurrect them to perpetual life a promise only held out to the righteous.

Romans7,8KJV" them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: 8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

The purpose of God's divine wrath is to bring a permanent end to wrongdoing and wrong desires not to perpetually enable them.

John2:17KJV"And the world passeth away and the LUST thereof ;BUT he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." 

Note the contrast the wrong desires characteristic of the present civilisation are as transient as the present age itself ,but the one accepting JEHOVAH'S help in being transformed inwardly so as to become the sort fit for a place in his new world will exists perpetually.