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I'm well aware of your creeds. I don't think they have any authority behind them, or are reason to disparage faithful JWs and Mormons.
You also believe in a lesser god, you just call him Satan.
All your points you made (e.g. Jesus as Creator) are null if one doesn't think John or Colossians are authoritative scripture the same way you don't think the Gospel of Judas is authoritative.
And by the way, Christianity does leave room for the Demiurge, it just calls him YHWH instead. If God made all things, then necessarily he made evil. If he is all good, why would he do that? He's either not all good, or not all powerful. That's why the Gnostic view makes a lot more sense than yours, because it accounts for a world with evil.
If the OT and NT are linked then can you, from the OT alone, derive the future disanullment of the sabbath? And in John 8:11 Jesus breaks the law (Lev 20:10). So God went from stoning someone for picking up sticks, to not stoning someone for adultery.
These are two examples of an obvious pattern Marcion was clever and just to accept, and had zeal to act upon.
The fruit of Mormonism is actually good (by Christian standards at least), and is on par with the Fundamentalist Baptist church I came out from.