MR 4.F Analysis

          The followers of Christ would not take a lie so far as to die for it. If the events surrounding Christ's public ministry, passion, and resurrection were not true and the apostles invented the "stories" then they would not have died for their faith. The apostles knowing of the "lie" they were spreading would most likely come clean when put to death. Why would they go to their deaths knowing what they were dying for was a lie?

          These people that died were eyewitnesses of Christ and things he did. They are not just promoting the things that they believe in the also are promoting that what Christ did for us was a real event and not just a lie. Because the apostles were supporting what they saw and died for what they saw, it supports the event, it gives credibility to it.