I am sure this must have been covered somewhere on the site, but I can’t seem to find any details.
It’s the standard Christian rebuttal – the apostles wouldn’t die for something they knew was a lie.
My question is; – how do we know they were martyred?
Any pointers in the right direction appreciated.
The stories of the Apostles’ martyrdom come from church traditions and apocryphal texts.
Here is a blog post from December 2015. The post raises the question that we don’t know how or why the Apostles died.
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I have no doubt that there were Christians who were martyred. More important for me then is that being willing to die for a belief doesn’t say anything about whether that belief is true. The terrorists on September 11 willingly died for their beliefs.
The difference between the September 11 terrorists and the allegedly martyred Christians is the terrorists died while trying to intentionally kill others while the allegedly martyred Christians were killed for refusing to renounce their faith. I don’t know if there is a significant difference but I feel there is one. lol
webattorney said
The difference between the September 11 terrorists and the allegedly martyred Christians is the terrorists died while trying to intentionally kill others while the allegedly martyred Christians were killed for refusing to renounce their faith. I don’t know if there is a significant difference but I feel there is one. lol
It may not be a perfect analogy. 
OK, I’ll leave it at strength of belief has no obvious relationship to truth of belief.
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