Now... this my perspective as a Muslim.
No, God's religion's were never flawed. Mankind themselves strayed away from God's teachings. This happened through the years, back when God's people were known as the Jews. Many prophets came down, from Noah to Moses, to Abraham. Each time, re-aligning God's people to the straight path. Heck, just look at the story of Moses, when he had only departed for a short period of time... and some of his people began to worship the golden calf... that in itself is a lesson.
The same occured when Jesus (as) was born to the Virgin Mary (pbuh), as a "sign unto mankind". The Jewish community he was born in rejected him, even though he came to correct their ways, as by this time much of their practices were vasty scewed.
After the departure of Jesus (as), various gospels were written by 'anonymous' writers across the world. 4 of over 30 were chosen, very arbitrarily (imo), by this one man (i forgot him name... will have to look it up)... who essentially wanted to create a clear definition of the Christian religion. This was still during the time where Christians were being persecuted by the Romans. This happened at least over 100 years after Jesus.
Roughly 700 years later, Muhammed (sas) was given the final revelation of God. What made this revelation unique was, it was not only meant to once against re-align monotheists onto the true path of God, but it was the final message who's sign in itself, would be it's preservation. Something that to that day, had not happened before. To this day, the Qur'an you find on book shelves is the same as it was when it was revealed. Not a single word changed.
This is very much why, most of the converts in the mosques in Massachusettes have large numbers of Jewish and Christian converts. As many of them seems to find the missing pieces in the Qur'an.
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