Creation and Religion

I am going to expound on "The Garden of Love", but first I feel the need to backtrack a little to "The Lamb". When our professor, Dr. Jones, was discussing this poem, he pointed out that Blake unifies the Creator aspect of the Trinity with Christ the Lamb. Dr. Jones felt this did not fully fit with Trinitarian doctrine; however, I disagree. I didn't realize this until I was looking at this icon I got for Christmas. It clearly shows Christ in the Creator aspect. In Orthodox Christianity, which happens to be my particular brand, Christ is the Creator, the Lamb, everything. The Trinity is fully united from before the beginning of time.
Now, "The Garden of Love" symbolizes the movement from innocence to experience. Blake not only continues with the Eden theme, but also the movement from childhood to adulthood, and the confinement that society forces upon adults. He uses religion to illustrate this. The area where the children played has now been replaced by a chapel, with "Thou shalt not" written on the lintel. The innocent carefree play of childhood has been replaced by the demands to conformity within societal bounds. Attempting to turn away from these demands, and return to innocence, symbolized by the simplistic beauty of nature, the speaker looks for the flowers that used to grow in the garden. Instead, he finds death, which is the ultimate end to all those who allow their innocence of perception to be distorted by the experienced perception of others. The priests in the poem serve this role of imposing their perception of the world on the speaker, by denying him his happiness with their regulations. The briars, along with the image below the line, can also refer to Christ's crown of thorns. This is where I get slightly confused on Blake's perception of Christianity. It may be because he is coming out of some sort of dissenting Protestantism, which generally has Calvinistic veins of happiness equating with sin. In my understanding of Christianity, it does not exist to damn you for your joy, but instead seeks to magnify your joy through the love of God and joyfulness in all of creation. The canons of the religion confine human desire, but only those desires that ulitmately lead to unhappiness. Even though Blake is focused on the individuality of perception and reality, he cannot be advocating pure hedonism, because the Dionysisian demands of humanity would take precedence over the stewardship of nature. Without some sort of agreed upon societal perception of right and wrong, each individual would merely be chasing their own desires, regardless of the harm to fellow man or nature, and all innocence would be lost.