Is Jehovah's Witness information useful

Answer 1

Opinion: The "usefulness" of the Jehovah's Witnesses information depends on the subjective needs of the individual exposed to it. Jehovah's Witnesses base the information they give on their understanding of The Bible and invite their listeners to use their own personal copies of the bible to verify if they deem their message accurate and useful from a doctrinal point of view.

Their message involves how individuals can worship in an acceptable way in order to survive what they believe is a coming destruction of this system of things. Clearly if they are right in this regard the information they are giving is of life saving import.

Many individuals believe that living by biblical standards of morality to be beneficial even if there were no long term benefits, thus some would deem that the Jehovah's Witnesses information that encourages listeners to live by a higher moral code to be useful if only in the short term.

The Jehovah's Witnesses also publish general knowledge and news items that are of interest to those interested in a wide variety of topics; this information has been found to be useful for individuals in various fields such as teachers, law enforcement agencies, the medical profession and various other professions.

Ultimately the "usefulness" of any information depends on how individuals can benefit from having said information and that it somewhat subjective in nature.

Answer 2

The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (the official name for the organisation of Jehovah's Witnesses) is essentially a Christian denomination, although some of its teachings are very much at variance with those of mainstream Churches. Some mainstream Christians believe that the Jehovah's Witness Bible is poorly translated, in order to suit Witness theology. Witnesses, on the other hand, claim that their Bible is a more accurate translation than most. Jehovah's Witnesses do not accept the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Based on their reading of Revelation, they hold that only 144,000 people, all Jehovah's Witnesses, will go to heaven, while the remainder (along with non-Witnesses whom Jehovah deems worthy) will spend eternity in a different paradise here on earth.
Among Jehovah's Witnesses, personal success is considered self-indulgent. Young people are told to get as much education as they can while at school, but caution is needed when it comes to college and university, because of the philosophies that can be anti-spiritual. The suggestion here seems to be that if students learn information that contrasts with that of their Church, they may reject Witness information as inferior.

Perhaps the usefulness of Jehovah's Witness information can best be gauged by the success or otherwise of the predictions made so confidently in the past. Witnesses expected the invisible return of Christ in 1874, a date which was later revised to 1914, the original date for Argameddon. The predicted date of Argameddon was later revised to 1975. The destruction of mainstream Christendom was predicted for 1918. The prophets Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were predicted to return in 1925.