Interpreting scripture among adults who read scripture at least once a week by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who read scripture at least once a week by interpretation of scripture
% of adults who read scripture 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 | 63% | 26% | 2% | 6% | 3% | 237 |
Assemblies of God | 76% | 19% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 359 |
Church of God in Christ | 73% | 20% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 115 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 35% | 56% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 499 |
Churches of Christ | 58% | 29% | 4% | 7% | 2% | 303 |
Episcopal Church | 24% | 37% | < 1% | 21% | 17% | 113 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 39% | 39% | 3% | 14% | 5% | 188 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 72% | 19% | 3% | 3% | 3% | 509 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 57% | 29% | 5% | 6% | 3% | 138 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 60% | 26% | 7% | 2% | 4% | 182 |
National Baptist Convention | 70% | 19% | 2% | 2% | 7% | 318 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 60% | 26% | 11% | 4% | < 1% | 142 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 63% | 27% | 5% | 2% | 3% | 500 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 44% | 24% | 5% | 19% | 8% | 426 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 25% | 16% | 3% | 45% | 12% | 112 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 36% | 41% | 3% | 8% | 12% | 168 |
Seventh-day Adventist | 58% | 32% | 6% | < 1% | 3% | 122 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 70% | 19% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 1,211 |
United Methodist Church | 43% | 37% | 4% | 8% | 8% | 640 |
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