Islam
To the question of Islam: the best lies are 95% Truth. As are the most successful heresies.
I can reject everything Islam preaches, based on the source of that teaching. I don't have to parse through it to find the few pearls of truth. I can reject it outright yet at the same time acknowledge that there might be some truth in there, because fortunately, any truth that may be found in Islam is already found in Christianity.
I stand by my statement that your beliefs are closer to Islam than to Judaism or to Christianity.
- You don't believe in the divinity of Christ, yet you are comfortable enough with Him to call him a mediator between God and Man - Islam calls him a great prophet. (Islam actually bends over backwards to deny his divinity, yet at the same time calls Him the Word of God.)
- You claim there was some great apostasy in the early Church which perverted the "true" message of Jesus
- You don't believe that religious tradition evolves with time organically (the Jews did, and the Muslims most certainly do not)
There are plenty more parallels, but I just don't know how to approach you. You very forcefully come out with guns ablaze, railing against Trinitarian Christianity (ie CHRISTIANITY), and yet you use the Bible, passed down to you by the Roman Catholic Church. It is a paradox.
On the divinity of Christ
How do you feel about the 7 "I AM" statements in John's Gospel.
Surely you know that a Jew would never - ever - have spoken about himself using such provocative language, unless that person was claiming to be God. That is treading far too close to the unmentionable name of YHWH.
And what about when Jesus says, "Before Abraham was, I AM." THIS is the kind of language which caused the jewish authorities to rend their garments.