Interpreting scripture among adults who attend services weekly or more by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who attend services weekly or more by interpretation of scripture
% of adults who attend services weekly or more 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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American Baptist Churches USA | 66% | 25% | 1% | 5% | 3% | 202 |
Assemblies of God | 79% | 15% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 314 |
Church of God in Christ | 76% | 19% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 123 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 34% | 57% | 5% | 1% | 2% | 500 |
Churches of Christ | 58% | 34% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 280 |
Episcopal Church | 13% | 42% | 1% | 29% | 15% | 168 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 26% | 47% | 3% | 18% | 6% | 266 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 75% | 18% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 439 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 56% | 36% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 123 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 59% | 31% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 221 |
National Baptist Convention | 72% | 18% | 2% | 3% | 5% | 297 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 61% | 26% | 10% | 3% | < 1% | 122 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 61% | 30% | 5% | 1% | 3% | 487 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 53% | 20% | 3% | 16% | 8% | 220 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 32% | 42% | 3% | 14% | 8% | 213 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 55% | 34% | 7% | 1% | 3% | 115 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 73% | 18% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 1,109 |
United Methodist Church | 39% | 40% | 4% | 9% | 8% | 761 |
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