The target of the Spanish Inquisitors was the Conversos, Jews who had converted to Catholicism, not the practicing Jews, who were expelled due to their supposed influence over the Conversos. The Inquisition had been an active force in Europe for over 250 years before it came to Spain (Stewart 25). It is divided into three stages. First was the medieval extermination of heretics. Second was the Spanish Inquisition in the 1400s. ...

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Belshazzar, his son, had evidently been coregent; but in fulfillment of Dan. 5:25-28, he too died. ... In the following year he made his famous edict (see Ezr. 1:2-4; 6:3b-5), allowing all peoples to return to their native lands. ...

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In all of the religions of the world, one of the primary questions that they are to answer is that of the meaning of life and life after death. As long as man has been self-aware and cognizant of the passage of time, he has operated with the knowledge that he, at some time as a mortal man, must end his life and die. He is naturally unable to ascertain the nature of his purpose in life and what may pertain after death, and soon begins to develop an explanation for what happens to him, or his essence when he passes that barrier. The early monotheists developed the most structured and defined...

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