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Of course they’re protest-ants!
I mean, everyone I have ever known protests loudly as all get-out whenever a JW knocks at the door with a Watchtower. :-)
What is a "fundamentalist"? I see the term tossed around all the time with no attempt to objectively define it. Generally, it's just used by the secular world as a pejorative epitaph. If it just means someone who believes in the fundamentals of Christianity, then who would ever deny being a fundamentalist?
If you lack the knowledge of the Godhead and who Jesus is it is difficult to say you are a protestant. I is also difficult to be anything else but a cult.
No. They are Arians.
cultic JWs
cultic mormonism
“Third, unlike the Protestant movement, which has splintered into hundreds of denominations, Jehovah’s Witnesses have maintained a united global brotherhood. “
This is not true, even JWs habe their splinter groups.
LOL! I remember reading a book where a JW knocked on a New Yorker’s door in the 1960s and said,”God has a message for you,” and her mother said, “Tell him to send it by Western Union.”
I don’t think they are true Protestants, but as you say, they came out of that weird 19th century period where there was a surge in strange spiritualist cults coming out of areas in the “Burnt-Over District” (Upstate New York, source of Mormonism) and others where there had been heavy Protestant camp-meeting style revivalism and not a very effective institutional Protestant presence.
That is, the mainline churches were perceived as being upper-class, and the camp-meeting folk were not, but because there was no continuing church presence, they were up for grabs by whoever was the next charismatic speaker. Spiritualism was the 19th century equivalent of New Age; think of all the many 20th and 21st century cults that have been based on a combination of New Age and some vague remnant of Christianity or Judaism, and you’ll get a realistic view of the source of the Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Scientists, etc.
No, they are a CULT!
Pseudo-Christian. They are doctrinally outside the pale of Christian orthodoxy.
Cult. They are clueless about the blood atonement of Christ and in fact deny Jesus is God Himself. They are liars.
Compare that to the millions of "German Christians" - Protestants who found they could easily reconcile putting the swastika up next to the cross.
fundamentalists (including those that influenced the baptist movement)
I don’t think that had to do with the restoration movements. I think it was a reaction to neo-orthodox theologians like Karl Barth and other due to questions about the inerrancy of scripture.
I believe there are some offshoots with different names like Millennial Dawnists and such. They often advertise their bible study courses in newspapers and magazines.
They most certainly are NOT Protestants....and neither are the Mormons.
You had might as well include Scientology as Protestant.
They are NOT Protestants. They don’t even believe in the Trinity.
Answer: No. They do not believe that Jesus rose bodily from the dead. Jesus' resurrection was physical. Consequently, they do not believe the gospel of Christ. They believe in works righteousness (not justification by faith without works--Romans 3:28). And this invariably leads to believing that they can "lose their salvation".
A lot of Protestants aren't Christians because they share many of the same beliefs. They have not believed God. They have called him a liar (1 John 5:10). They're still trusting in their own righteousness to be saved (or remain saved), rather than on the finished work of Jesus Christ.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24)
When one believes, he has everlasting life at that very moment and is alive again (born again -- John 3:3). He is a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17). And that new creature cannot sin (1 John 3:9) and will NEVER die (John 5:24, John 11:25,26).
Jesus Christ has saved us from the lake of fire and has given us his righteousness, an unfathomable gift.
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I would treat them with respect, as its been shown they are survivors.
And if given a choice I would rather have them as neighbors than Moslems every day of the week.
Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Protestants? They’re not even Christian, much less Protestants and they don’t have a chance of qualifying as Fundamentalists. They belong in the same category as Mormons and those who deny the Deity of Christ; they’re heretics and/or unbelievers.