Belief in God among never married adults by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among never married adults by belief in God
% of never married adults 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 | 85% | 11% | 3% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1,564 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 71% | 24% | 3% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1,850 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 89% | 9% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 134 |
Not the word of God | 23% | 23% | 14% | < 1% | 34% | 5% | 2,946 |
Other/don't know | 52% | 25% | 8% | 1% | 6% | 8% | 472 |
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