Why don't we know the date Jesus rose up from the dead?

[Rev. Rye]

Believers insist that Jesus was a real person who performed real miracles. I say he's a myth. To me, some convincing evidence for this comes from the fact that we don't know when he was crucified or rose up from the dead. Of course, we also don't know the date he was born (I hope no one is going to try to argue that he was born December 25).

I can sort of accept that we don't know when he was born. He was supposedly born in a barn and maybe the date was somehow lost to history. But we don't know when he died? When he was resurrected? A momentous event like this and NO ONE thought to write down the date? Particularly when you consider that Jesus was (supposedly) publicly executed! Come on! We know the exact dates of many things that happened in the ancient world, but we don't know wehn Jesus died? I find this hard to swallow.

Do any believers have a reason why this would be?

Yes, that is a very good question. For that matter, why aren't there any contemporary accounts of the Resurrection independent of the Bible?

BTW, boy, where do you get that from?

I think I know how he got the date: the year 33 AD is supposed to be the only year between 26 and 36 in which the dates for Computus (the church's traditional algorithm for putting the date of Easter), and Passover line up. I could be wrong.