Interpreting scripture by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination by interpretation of scripture
% of adults who say the holy scripture is…
Religious denomination | Word of God; should be taken literally | Word of God; not everything taken literally | Word of God; other/don't know | Not the word of God | Other/don't know | Sample size |
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African Methodist Episcopal Church | 55% | 23% | 4% | 13% | 4% | 117 |
American Baptist Churches USA | 53% | 27% | 4% | 11% | 5% | 467 |
Anglican Church | 20% | 43% | 1% | 29% | 7% | 111 |
Assemblies of God | 72% | 20% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 460 |
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 83% | 12% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 111 |
Church of God in Christ | 68% | 25% | 2% | 4% | 1% | 165 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 32% | 54% | 5% | 6% | 3% | 641 |
Church of the Nazarene | 50% | 34% | 2% | 11% | 3% | 101 |
Churches of Christ | 49% | 33% | 4% | 11% | 4% | 498 |
Episcopal Church | 10% | 33% | 1% | 47% | 9% | 494 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 20% | 42% | 2% | 29% | 8% | 641 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 53% | 29% | 3% | 11% | 4% | 825 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 48% | 36% | 3% | 8% | 4% | 206 |
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.) | 9% | 30% | 1% | 39% | 21% | 139 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 40% | 41% | 4% | 11% | 4% | 459 |
National Baptist Convention | 64% | 21% | 2% | 7% | 6% | 462 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 53% | 33% | 8% | 6% | 1% | 187 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 53% | 35% | 4% | 4% | 3% | 684 |
Nondenominational fundamentalist | 56% | 35% | 2% | 7% | 1% | 107 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 25% | 24% | 2% | 40% | 10% | 2,015 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 4% | 8% | < 1% | 79% | 7% | 2,969 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 24% | 39% | 3% | 24% | 10% | 428 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 34% | 39% | 7% | 15% | 5% | 158 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 48% | 36% | 5% | 4% | 7% | 165 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 61% | 24% | 4% | 8% | 3% | 1,845 |
Spiritual but not religious | 6% | 13% | < 1% | 62% | 20% | 128 |
Unitarian | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 85% | 8% | 165 |
United Church of Christ | 13% | 34% | 1% | 38% | 13% | 227 |
United Methodist Church | 27% | 42% | 3% | 20% | 8% | 1,637 |
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