I agree with everything that you are saying , I have yet to hear of anyone dying for a lie, at least not on purpose! Historians admit that there is enough evidence to prove that Jesus existed, and there were historians from those times that verified that a person named Jesus of Nazareth did exist.

What they cannot explain is why a group of disciples would choose to believe a 'lie', recruit other people to believe in this 'lie', and then volunteer to die horrible deaths to uphold the 'lie'. No one would be foolish enough to suffer what they did for Jesus if Jesus really wasn't who He said that He was!

That is why the world cannot understand our committment to Jesus Christ and to the word of God, because it is not a mental revelation, but a spiritual revelation, and it can only be truly understood with the heart, and not with the mind!