Arian subordinationism has reappeared since the fourth century several times; in the twentieth century it appeared as the official doctrine (without the name of Arius acknowledged or attached) of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Jehovah’s Witnesses) and several sects closely related to it. According to the Watchtower organization, Jesus Christ is not God or equal with God but the incarnation of the archangel Michael who is God’s first and greatest creature. While Arius did not propose such an identity for the preincarnate Word and Son of God, they share the same basic concept of who and
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