Interpreting scripture among adults who pray daily by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who pray daily by interpretation of scripture
% of adults who pray daily 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% | 25% | 5% | 7% | 5% | 320 |
Assemblies of God | 74% | 19% | 2% | 2% | 3% | 388 |
Church of God in Christ | 73% | 21% | 3% | 2% | < 1% | 137 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 35% | 56% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 556 |
Churches of Christ | 56% | 31% | 3% | 6% | 3% | 382 |
Episcopal Church | 12% | 40% | 1% | 35% | 12% | 256 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 25% | 43% | 3% | 19% | 11% | 384 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 63% | 24% | 3% | 8% | 2% | 628 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 53% | 33% | 4% | 6% | 4% | 170 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 50% | 38% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 305 |
National Baptist Convention | 65% | 22% | 1% | 5% | 7% | 393 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 59% | 28% | 9% | 4% | < 1% | 165 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 59% | 31% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 577 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 33% | 25% | 3% | 30% | 9% | 890 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 15% | 12% | 1% | 58% | 14% | 310 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 28% | 43% | 4% | 15% | 10% | 269 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 44% | 31% | 8% | 11% | 6% | 104 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 51% | 35% | 6% | 3% | 5% | 145 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 66% | 22% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 1,504 |
United Church of Christ | 18% | 41% | 1% | 26% | 14% | 120 |
United Methodist Church | 35% | 42% | 3% | 12% | 8% | 1,019 |
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