Sources of guidance on right and wrong among members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod 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 | 59% | 8% | 29% | 1% | 3% | 190 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 34% | 4% | 57% | 4% | 1% | 177 |
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