This has nothing to do with religion. Try psychological diagnoses.
JW'S neither Catholic nor Protestant? WHAT, THEN?
by Terry 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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InquiryMan
some brand them as marginal protestants or a religion devoted to works with a background in christianity.
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jgnat
By rejecting the Nicene Creed, they don't at all meet the criteria for orthodox Christianity (not to be confused with the Orthodox Church). By that definition, they are not even Christian.
Here's a timeline for the various branches and denominations of Christianity.
http://www.saintignatiuschurch.org/timeline.html
Based on a timeline and doctrinal origins, the Witnesses are definitely in the Protestant branch, the Adventists and the Millenialists.
The Witnesses claim their origins pre-Catholic because of their rejection of the doctrine of the Trinity, but they also deny belonging to the two other major groups at the time, the Arians and the Gnostics.