Feelings about the bible

bible

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question 120a. Which of these statements comes closest to describing your feelings about teh Bible? 1. The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. 2. The Bible is the inspired word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. 3. The Bible is an ancient book of fables, legends, history, and moral precepts recorded by men.

Overview

For further details see the official GSS documentation.

Counts by year:

year	iap	ancient book	don't know	inspired word	no answer	other (vol)	word of god	not available in this year	Total
1972	1613	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1613
1973	1504	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1504
1974	1484	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1484
1975	1490	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1490
1976	1499	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1499
1977	1530	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1530
1978	1532	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1532
1980	1468	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1468
1982	1860	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1860
1983	1599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1599
1984	484	134	13	455	13	7	367	-	1473
1985	783	94	13	365	5	2	272	-	1534
1986	1470	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1470
1987	621	180	18	498	14	6	482	-	1819
1988	-	239	28	696	3	10	505	-	1481
1989	531	160	27	494	9	4	312	-	1537
1990	444	140	19	455	8	7	299	-	1372
1991	493	151	18	488	4	8	355	-	1517
1993	526	163	22	524	6	9	356	-	1606
1994	1015	292	34	1002	15	18	616	-	2992
1996	944	334	40	970	12	12	592	-	2904
1998	463	383	59	1164	14	25	724	-	2832
2000	486	361	71	1084	9	23	783	-	2817
2002	1393	192	24	727	3	36	390	-	2765
2004	1472	219	14	627	7	23	450	-	2812
2006	1518	497	37	1363	12	73	1010	-	4510
2008	-	392	23	924	13	32	639	-	2023
2010	-	414	27	878	11	40	674	-	2044
2012	-	404	26	865	15	30	634	-	1974
2014	-	555	29	1095	20	25	814	-	2538
2016	-	625	21	1252	16	42	911	-	2867
2018	-	494	18	1079	16	35	706	-	2348
2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4032	4032
2022	1705	441	37	787	18	28	528	-	3544
2024	1823	288	45	602	12	43	496	-	3309
Total	31750	7152	663	18394	255	538	12915	4032	75699

Values

• 1 word of god

• 2 inspired word

• 3 ancient book

• 4 other (vol)

• NA(d) don't know

• NA(i) iap

• NA(j) I don't have a job

• NA(m) dk, na, iap

• NA(n) no answer

• NA(p) not imputable

• NA(r) refused

• NA(s) skipped on web

• NA(u) uncodeable

• NA(x) not available in this release

• NA(y) not available in this year

• NA(z) see codebook