Describe your feelings about the bible

bible1

Source

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

Details

Question Which of these statements comes closest to describing your feelings about the Bible?

Values

• [1] word of god, take literally

• [2] god-inspired, shouldn't take literally

• [3] book of fables, by man

• [4] this does not apply to me

• [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

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C	1991, 1998

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for bible1.

Counts by year:

year	iap	word of god, take literally	god-inspired, shouldn't take literally	book of fables, by man	this does not apply to me	don't know	no answer	Total
1991	158	430	639	188	27	50	25	1517
1998	1548	358	585	207	40	56	38	2832
Total	1706	788	1224	395	67	106	63	4349

See also

Other ISSP Religion: devil, fatalism, godmeans, heaven, hell, miracles, nihilism, predeter, theism

Other Religion: devil, fatalism, godmeans, heaven, hell, miracles, nihilism, predeter, theism