Poll: Most US Jews believe in God, but don’t think God judges them

26 April 2018, 6:41 pm

Edit

The vast majority of American Jews believe in God, but not in the God of the Bible, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.

The survey shows that 89 percent of American Jews believe in God, compared to 99 percent of Christians, 72 percent of unaffiliated people, and 90 percent of Americans overall.

But only 33 percent of Jews believe in a biblical God, compared to 80 percent of Christians. A majority of Jews believe in “some other higher power of spiritual force in the universe,” according to the study. Ten percent of Jews do not believe in God.

There was a large margin of error for the Jewish sample of the survey: 12.9 percent, as 155 Jews were surveyed.

— JTA