The Best Documented Historical Event..

 Scott Powell has a Christian apologetic at The Federalist entitled Jesus Resurrection is Probably the Best-Documented Historical Event Ever. Of course, ultimately you must believe, because no matter how much evidence there is, the Resurrection is still a supernatural event that none of us has any experience with. But if God could Himself become a human, live as one of us, die a horrible death, and resurrect Himself, can anyone not believe?

Still, people do. I just watched a History Channel hit piece by nonbelievers claiming the whole thing was a big hoax. Of course, they had to claim the Gospels weren't written by those who had witnessed the events portrayed.  No evidence for these claims was provided, however.  In fact, hundreds of so-called "Gospels" were written, but the early Church Fathers took into account the authors of these books and the dates they were probably written in deciding which books to include in Canon.  We have pretty good evidence that the books included were written within 100 years of the Resurrection.  But St. Paul, writing in the First Century A.D. would have recognized those that did not believe:

but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness,

My pastor doesn't like Christian apologetics because, as the above makes clear, they are in effect singing to the choir. Nonetheless, they have value for providing the believer ammunition to convince those who are open to Christianity. Remember that it is not our job to save others, it is merely our job to carry the message. So, with all that said, Powell writes:

There are many religions with different founders, prophets, and teachers going back thousands of years. But only one of them, Christianity, has a founder who professed to be the Messiah—the son of God—who provided irrefutable proof of who he was by conquering death through resurrection. Easter is the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.

Christ is also the only person in history who was pre-announced starting a thousand years before he was born, with 18 different prophets from the Old Testament between the tenth and the fourth centuries BC predicting his coming birth, life, and death. Hundreds of years later, the details of Christ’s birth, life, betrayal, and manner of death validated those prophecies in surprisingly accurate and minute detail. One thousand years BC, David prophetically wrote about the crucifixion of Christ at a time crucifixion was unknown as a means of execution.

You can read the rest of Powell's article. It is very well written. Please also meditate on the meaning of the resurrection for each of us today and in the future.