Educational distribution among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who believe in God with absolute certainty by educational group
% of adults who believe in God with absolute certainty who have completed…
Interpreting scripture | High school or less | Some college | College | Post-graduate degree | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 53% | 31% | 11% | 5% | 8,781 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 35% | 35% | 19% | 12% | 7,410 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 41% | 35% | 15% | 9% | 842 |
Not the word of God | 34% | 34% | 19% | 13% | 3,242 |
Other/don't know | 38% | 35% | 16% | 10% | 1,497 |
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