Frequency of feeling spiritual peace and wellbeing among methodists in the Mainline Tradition by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among methodists in the Mainline Tradition by frequency of feelings of spiritual wellbeing
% of methodists in the Mainline Tradition who feel a sense of spiritual peace and wellbeing…
Interpreting scripture | At least once a week | Once or twice a month | Several times a year | Seldom/never | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 78% | 11% | 5% | 4% | 2% | 411 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 60% | 20% | 12% | 8% | < 1% | 716 |
Not the word of God | 41% | 23% | 12% | 23% | 1% | 404 |
Other/don't know | 52% | 16% | 15% | 10% | 6% | 157 |
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