If you have Googled, “What is the meaning of Easter?” or similar keywords you have arrived at the right spot.

If you Googled searching for the meaning of Easter, I am going to make an assumption that you are not a Christian yet. That is good. I hoped you would land here.

I hoped you would land here because Easter has more significance for you than Christians. Sure, Christians celebrate Easter all over the world. They dress up and go to church, and they sing hymns the about the event they celebrate on Easter, but that is not why you came here.

What makes it even more interesting that you are here is that this blog is written for Christians. But here you are.

I mentioned above that Easter is significant for you if you are not a Christian. Easter is significant for you because Easter marks the celebration not of a cherished belief but of an historic event. And here is where it gets good for you if you are not a Christian: this historical event Christians celebrate is the proof you have been looking for.

In fact, a person named Saul of Tarsus, once an enemy of Christianity and persecutor of Christians, when faced with indisputable evidence of this historical event not many years after it had occurred, was immediately converted to Christianity. He then traveled throughout Asia Minor telling others about this historical event.

When Saul, then known as “Paul”, arrived in Athens, he spoke to the Athenian Supreme Court in front of the Parthenon, perhaps the most famous pagan temple of the day, and he told them about the historical event:

Therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.

Acts 17:30-31.

The resurrection of Jesus is not some 1st century Penn and Teller magic trick orchestrated by Jesus’ disciples–they would all voluntarily give their lives for Jesus, something they would never have done if they knew the resurrection was a farce. Jesus’ own brother, James, would come to believe after seeing the evidence of the resurrection. Paul, an educated man, states that more than 500 people witnessed Jesus alive after His resurrection and challenges his readers to ask around if they didn’t believe him. I Corinthians 15:6 (“. . . most of whom are still alive . . .”).

The meaning of Easter is God’s presentation of proof to you that Jesus was who He said He was and that He was the way through which you must be reconciled to God. John 14:6. This is the meaning of Easter. GS