Interpreting scripture among who believe in Heaven by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among who believe in Heaven by interpretation of scripture
% of who believe in Heaven 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 | 57% | 23% | 4% | 12% | 5% | 106 |
American Baptist Churches USA | 54% | 27% | 5% | 11% | 3% | 421 |
Assemblies of God | 72% | 20% | 2% | 3% | 3% | 416 |
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) | 85% | 10% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 107 |
Church of God in Christ | 67% | 26% | 2% | 4% | 1% | 155 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 33% | 56% | 5% | 4% | 2% | 605 |
Churches of Christ | 52% | 34% | 4% | 8% | 3% | 457 |
Episcopal Church | 14% | 40% | 1% | 35% | 10% | 327 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 22% | 44% | 2% | 25% | 8% | 539 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 54% | 30% | 3% | 10% | 4% | 722 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 50% | 36% | 3% | 7% | 4% | 179 |
Interdenominational (Mainline Trad.) | 12% | 33% | 1% | 33% | 21% | 105 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 42% | 42% | 4% | 9% | 3% | 397 |
National Baptist Convention | 64% | 22% | 2% | 6% | 5% | 438 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 54% | 34% | 6% | 5% | 1% | 158 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 52% | 38% | 3% | 4% | 3% | 548 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 31% | 27% | 2% | 32% | 9% | 1,396 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 11% | 19% | 1% | 60% | 10% | 811 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 28% | 43% | 2% | 18% | 9% | 331 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 36% | 41% | 5% | 13% | 5% | 122 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 49% | 35% | 5% | 4% | 6% | 139 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 62% | 24% | 4% | 6% | 3% | 1,627 |
United Church of Christ | 15% | 45% | 1% | 29% | 10% | 156 |
United Methodist Church | 30% | 44% | 2% | 16% | 7% | 1,370 |
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