{"id":3074,"date":"2016-10-13T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T11:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2016-10-13T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T11:22:11","slug":"apostles-therefore-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"Apostles, Therefore God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Jos\u00e9:<\/strong><br \/>\nHi! I\u00b4m atheist, but I was born into a Christian family and It\u00b4s still difficult for me to answer too many questions. I don\u00b4t believe in the Bible, but there are a lot of websites claiming that is completely real because so many reasons.<br \/>\nWell, my question is about apostles. Jim Wallace claims that God truly existed because of the martyrdom of the apostles. He said, If It was a joke, no men would have been killed. They would have said that they invented Jesus or something like that. No one die when they know it\u00b4s all a lie. Could you explain that to me? I really want to know what your answers are.<br \/>\nThank you so much.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nJim Wallace isn&#8217;t the only one to make that claim, many prominent apologists have at least touched on it.  I&#8217;ve covered it in a piece called <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=2858\"><strong>\u201cDid they Die for a Lie?\u201d And Other Appeals to Character<\/strong><\/a>.  I even recorded audio for it.  The shortest possible summary is that the possibilities are endless.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCheck it out, then comment there or here if you need clarification on anything, or just to say what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Jos\u00e9: Hi! I\u00b4m atheist, but I was born into a Christian family and It\u00b4s still difficult for me to answer too many questions. I don\u00b4t believe in the Bible, but there are a lot of websites claiming that is completely real because so many reasons. Well, my question is about apostles. Jim Wallace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apostles, Therefore God?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[560,6],"tags":[655,39,635],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-2","category-text","tag-apostles","tag-bible","tag-die-for-a-lie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-NA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}