Was Shakespeare a Christian?
Here’s this answer (in part) by Glimpses of Christian History:
Was Shakespeare a true Christian? Some of the anecdotes about his life make that doubtful. Nonetheless, a month before his death, he wrote his will, which he concluded by saying, “I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour to be made partaker of life everlasting.”
He instructed that his tombstone to be inscribed:
“Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.”
Especially interesting is the speculation that Shakespeare makes an appearance in the King James translation of the Bible (Psalm 46).
(HT: Ramon Alamon, colleague at Cross International)
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