Interpreting scripture among married adults by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among married adults by interpretation of scripture
% of married adults 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 | 52% | 30% | 4% | 9% | 6% | 209 |
Assemblies of God | 78% | 16% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 266 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 31% | 56% | 6% | 4% | 3% | 440 |
Churches of Christ | 52% | 28% | 5% | 10% | 4% | 263 |
Episcopal Church | 11% | 31% | 1% | 49% | 8% | 298 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 19% | 43% | 2% | 28% | 9% | 393 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 60% | 24% | 3% | 9% | 4% | 482 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 47% | 39% | 3% | 6% | 4% | 105 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 42% | 39% | 3% | 11% | 4% | 269 |
National Baptist Convention | 64% | 23% | 1% | 7% | 5% | 167 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 58% | 31% | 5% | 3% | 3% | 449 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 23% | 26% | 1% | 40% | 10% | 796 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 2% | 7% | 1% | 83% | 7% | 1,284 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 20% | 40% | 3% | 26% | 11% | 283 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 66% | 21% | 4% | 5% | 3% | 1,107 |
United Church of Christ | 6% | 38% | < 1% | 41% | 15% | 136 |
United Methodist Church | 26% | 42% | 3% | 21% | 8% | 987 |
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