Interpreting scripture among adults who feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing at least once a week by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing at least once a week by interpretation of scripture
% of adults who feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing at least once a week 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 | 58% | 24% | 4% | 9% | 5% | 318 |
Assemblies of God | 77% | 18% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 381 |
Church of God in Christ | 74% | 19% | 3% | 3% | 1% | 129 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 37% | 54% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 528 |
Churches of Christ | 54% | 32% | 3% | 8% | 2% | 366 |
Episcopal Church | 12% | 34% | 1% | 43% | 10% | 277 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 22% | 43% | 2% | 25% | 7% | 389 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 63% | 24% | 4% | 6% | 2% | 595 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 52% | 34% | 4% | 7% | 4% | 154 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 49% | 35% | 5% | 7% | 4% | 300 |
National Baptist Convention | 66% | 21% | 1% | 5% | 6% | 372 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 57% | 31% | 6% | 5% | < 1% | 159 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 58% | 31% | 5% | 4% | 3% | 534 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 28% | 21% | 2% | 38% | 10% | 1,044 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 5% | 7% | < 1% | 80% | 8% | 1,092 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 29% | 39% | 3% | 18% | 11% | 280 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 39% | 37% | 7% | 13% | 4% | 102 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 52% | 31% | 6% | 3% | 7% | 135 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 67% | 21% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 1,455 |
United Church of Christ | 14% | 34% | 1% | 35% | 16% | 126 |
United Methodist Church | 35% | 41% | 3% | 14% | 7% | 1,033 |
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