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

[Sciwoman]

You still haven't proven why any first-century Jews would invent a Messiah who was NOT a political/military deliverer from Rome. If that's what they had done, then we wouldn't even be having this discussion-because we would know that it didn't happen. And that, history tells us, is EXACTLY the type of Messiah that the Jews were looking and hoping for-not someone like the Biblical Christ.

Because it would have been clear to anyone to the Jews had not been delivered politically/militarily from Rome. Therefore, Jesus had to be turned into a spiritual deliverer. Yes, some Jews did convert to christianity. However, IIRC, the new religion didn't really gain much of a foothold until Paul got hold of it and focused it on converting gentiles - using the excuse that the Jews had rejected Jesus because he didn't come bearing a sword and leading an army. Christianity only has it's roots in Judaism, it quickly became a gentile religion. The stories written in the NT about Jesus were written down decades after the events supposedly took place. A quick look at how quickly rumors spread and get distorted should serve as a caution about taking any tale from scripture at face value.