Are JW's Fundamentalist Christians

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  JeffT

  After I left the JW's a belonged to an evangelical (fundamentalist) church for a number of years. Those people do not think of JW's as fundamentalists. The fundamentals can be found here:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fundamentals

  A few things quickly stand out, as doctrines at odds with the Watchtower. The Deity of Christ, The Personality of the Holy Spirit, Justification and Salvation through Grace alone. Regarding their understanding of the Bible, I've read some Christian writers (Walter Martin, Anthony Hoekama) who point out JW's don't recognize the final authority of the Bible. In Watchtowerland all Scriptural interpretation is filtered through the pages of the Society's literature.
  
  
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  Phizzy

  Dead right JeffT !

  The Fundamentalists originally started out with the somewhat laudable idea of cutting through the crap of Centuries of modification of Scripture and of biased exegesis, and worse of that awful thing eisgesis, and getting back to what the Scriptures actually said.

  Of course, to determine what the Scriptures actually say one HAS to use exegesis, and sadly, they soon fell in to the old trap of introducing eisegesis, so the movement failed in its aim. They also fell in to the trap of trying to take the Bible as literally as they possibly felt they could, a trap the JW Org still falls in to.

  JW's show scant respect for what the Bible actually says.