I still don't understand why anyone would make up a person like the Biblical Christ..

[Emanuel]

Jesus isn't actually too different from many other mythological beings in history. For example Horus, Osiris, Krishna, Dionysus, and Jesus Christ all share the same birthday of December 25th.

Horus, Krishna, Buddha, Dionysus, Osiris, and Jesus all performed miracles.

Horus even walked on water, just like Jesus and just like Jesus raised a man from the dead in front of many witnesses.

Buddah, who like Jesus was said to cure lepers and caused the blind to regain their sight.

Dionysus, like Jesus, was also able t o turn water to wine.

Jesus like these other mythological characters has no evidence to suggest he even existed, except of course with regards to the bible - where as far as we know, the story of Jesus supposedly originated.

I've did a little search, and got a little list of links regarding the Zeitgeist claims (I suppose this is where you got those claims from, right?). They refute it pretty well.

http://www.preventingtruthdecay.org/zeit...tone.shtml
http://www.tektonics.org/copycathub.html
http://www.messianicart.com/chazak/yeshu...opycat.htm
http://thedevineevidence.com/jesus_similarities.html
http://www.kingdavid8.com/Copycat/Home.html

The bible then isn't really any evidence at all.

There is a difference between "no evidence" and "no evidence according to my own satisfaction". So the question is rather concerning the quality of the evidence and not whether there is evidence or not.