Interpreting scripture among adults with some college education by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with some college education by interpretation of scripture
% of adults with some college education 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 | 49% | 35% | 5% | 6% | 5% | 126 |
Assemblies of God | 62% | 26% | 1% | 7% | 4% | 147 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 32% | 57% | 4% | 5% | 2% | 215 |
Churches of Christ | 43% | 34% | 5% | 12% | 6% | 158 |
Episcopal Church | 13% | 43% | 2% | 34% | 8% | 103 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 20% | 47% | 2% | 22% | 8% | 179 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 48% | 35% | 2% | 10% | 5% | 262 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 36% | 46% | 3% | 8% | 7% | 133 |
National Baptist Convention | 56% | 24% | 1% | 9% | 11% | 118 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 55% | 30% | 6% | 3% | 6% | 201 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 15% | 26% | 1% | 46% | 12% | 543 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 3% | 7% | 1% | 81% | 8% | 787 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 57% | 24% | 4% | 10% | 4% | 601 |
United Methodist Church | 26% | 45% | 3% | 17% | 9% | 430 |
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