Belief in God among who do not believe in Hell by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among who do not believe in Hell by belief in God
% of who do not believe in Hell 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 | 81% | 15% | 2% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1,096 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 67% | 26% | 4% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 2,255 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 82% | 11% | < 1% | 3% | 2% | 2% | 130 |
Not the word of God | 19% | 25% | 13% | 1% | 38% | 5% | 8,467 |
Other/don't know | 50% | 26% | 7% | 1% | 11% | 6% | 891 |
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