Sources of guidance on right and wrong among presbyterians in the Mainline Tradition by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among presbyterians in the Mainline Tradition by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of presbyterians in the Mainline Tradition who say they look to…most for guidance on right and wrong
Interpreting scripture | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 53% | 2% | 41% | 3% | 1% | 113 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 35% | 13% | 44% | 4% | 4% | 254 |
Not the word of God | 7% | 16% | 61% | 14% | 2% | 214 |
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