text: you know the christian martyrs..? when they were being killed did it hurt them..?? ....? i mean if "god"  were true..does it say some where in the bible or something about if martyrs will feel any pain..or something like that..?  i'm just wondering..i'm an atheist & i don't want to be a crisitian..i'm just curious.... peter, as well as some of the other disciples, were crucified. no death could be more painful. mark was tied between 4 horses and pulled in 4 pieces(or at least that's what some historians say). that's got to hurt a little. polycarp was burned at the stake. paul was beheaded not to mention that he was scourged 5 times, beaten with rods 4 times, stoned and many other persecutions while he was alive. the early disciples were persecuted their whole lives and then martyred in the most cruel way. that's why i believe the bible. these men were eyewitnesses of everything they wrote about in the bible and they lived a persecuted life and died horribly and went to their death saying that everything they had said was true when they could have lived a peaceful life and died peacefully if they would just have renounced everything they wrote about. but they didn't. they went to their death saying it was true.