Belief in Hell among Evangelical Protestants who say the holy scripture is word of God; not everything taken literally by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among Evangelical Protestants who say the holy scripture is word of God; not everything taken literally by belief in hell

% of Evangelical Protestants who say the holy scripture is word of God; not everything taken literally who …in hell

Religious denominationBelieveDon't believeOther/don't knowSample size
Churches of Christ89%7%4%162
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)85%13%2%215
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod74%19%7%177
Nondenominational evangelical84%10%6%236
Southern Baptist Convention84%11%6%430
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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