Age distribution among who believe in Heaven by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among who believe in Heaven by age group
% of who believe in Heaven who are ages…
Interpreting scripture | 18-29 | 30-49 | 50-64 | 65+ | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 15% | 34% | 30% | 22% | 8,701 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 24% | 34% | 25% | 17% | 8,347 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 14% | 28% | 29% | 28% | 769 |
Not the word of God | 29% | 35% | 25% | 12% | 4,473 |
Other/don't know | 18% | 34% | 28% | 20% | 1,559 |