What is the meaning of martyrdom?

Question

For Christians, what is death?

Answer 1

Th word "martyr" means "witness".

Martyrs of the Christian church are those who have been true witnesses for the faith, even in the face of persecution or death.

For faithful Christians, death is the payment of the prescribed penalty for original sin, followed immediately by the eternal restoration of all things, in Jesus Christ, who is God, and our savior.

Answer 2

Martyrdom refers not to spiritual death but rather physical death.

To deny ones life to the point of death in defense of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I was a friend of a man named Richard Wurmbrand(a messianic Jew) who endured a total of 14 years of horrible tortures for his faith in Jesus. 6 years under the nazi occupation of Romania and 8 under commmunist rule after Romania was (liberated by communist Soviet Union)

this man was a living Martyr

Answer 3

Martyrdom is to lay own's life for the sake of motherland. The people who lay their life are called martyrs.

Answer 4

Some people are killed because of their belief in their spirituality. Their crucifiers are usually jealous and angry and kill out of fear. When the killers see how peaceful someone dies because of their beliefs, they then call them a saint.

Answer 5

Dying because of your belief or testimony of your belief.

Lots of Christian examples and other religions too.

Answer 6

the meaning for it is to parry favor with God. Christians try to do it daily, with acts

Answer 7

it's when a muslim terrorist blows himself up with a bomb and kills a few innocent people with him, so he can get 72 virgins in muslim hell.