Belief in God among adults who seldom or never read scripture by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who seldom or never read scripture by belief in God
% of adults who seldom or never read scripture who say they…
Interpreting scripture | Believe in God; absolutely certain | Believe in God; fairly certain | Believe in God; not too/not at all certain | Believe in God; don't know | Do not believe in God | Other/don't know if they believe in God | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 76% | 19% | 3% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1,674 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 63% | 31% | 4% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 3,518 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 71% | 21% | < 1% | 6% | 2% | 1% | 197 |
Not the word of God | 21% | 28% | 14% | < 1% | 31% | 5% | 9,405 |
Other/don't know | 43% | 30% | 7% | 3% | 8% | 8% | 1,291 |
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