Skepticism is described by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a philosophical attitude of doubling down on knowledge claims set forth in various areas and asking what they are based on, what they have actually established, and whether they are indubitable or necessarily True. In terms of complaining, wondering why things are the way they are. Throughout the 18th century, great minds came forward to express their opinion on perceived information and their skepticism alike. Berkeley, home, Kant, Leibniz, Rousseau, Voltaire, Locke, Smith… Blake. Skepticism is notable in Locke's work throughout An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. He made observations and described a completely new set of theories that argued that man's will was the most important aspect, clashing with his predecessor Hobbes who believed that the king's power was absolute. Hume was adamant that regularities of the past predict the future, while Kant argued that in order to have simple experience, some universal conditions must be true. This cloud of perceived realities is what influenced William Blake. I propose that the humanism and skepticism of the Bible and its ideologies clashed with Blake's views and that emotion is embraced more in Blake than before in the 18th century. The individualism resulting from the Enlightenment and the questions it raised influenced Blake to retell the lessons of the Bible in a new way. The King James Bible had only been around for 150 years while Blake was growing up, the New Testament received a lot of criticism and still does today. From its evolution from the authorized version in 1611 to its standard text in 1769. The numerous printing and translation errors only encourage skeptics. Focusing on Jerusalem, I noticed connections between the Bible's ide... middle of paper... ....lake to represent the empathetic nature of man. My message is that Blake knew the strength of man and was skeptical that it would take fear to force men to notice that the Earth is our paradise and we, the inhabitants, have the power to create this divine earth , or in Blake's words, "His Sublime and His Pathos become two rocks fixed in the Earth, his reason his ghostly power, covers them above Jerusalem, his Emanation is a stone that lies beneath." Albion is the first man of the four zoa and each zoa is within us. I also tried to capture the essence of emotions in the 18th century before Blake. Before him, emotions were mostly ignored and passed off as ideas that represented the culmination of experience, not empathy. Blake captured Romantic ideas about emotion while criticizing the Bible and its messages with its mythology full of metaphorical connotations towards emotion.