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A formal statement in favor of biblical inerrancy was published in the ''Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society'' in 1978.<ref>"Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy", ''Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society'' vol. 21 no. 4 (December 1978), 289-296.[http://library.dts.edu/Pages/TL/Special/ICBI_1.pdf]</ref> The signatories to the "Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy" admit that "inspiration, strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture". However, even though there may be no extant original manuscripts of the Bible, those which exist can be considered inerrant, because, as the statement reads: "the autographic text of Scripture, ... in the
providence of God can be ascertained from available manuscripts with great accuracy".<ref name="ChicX">''Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy'': "Article X. We affirm that inspiration, strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture, which in the
providence of God can be ascertained from available manuscripts with great accuracy. We further affirm
that copies and translations of Scripture are the Word of God to the extent that they faithfully represent the
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== Inerrancy in autographic texts and modern versions ==
Those who hold the inerrancy of the Bible can disagree as to whether inerrancy refers to modern Bibles or only to the original, autographic texts. There are also disagreements about whether, because the autographic texts no longer survive, modern texts can be claimed to be inerrant.<ref>Cowan, SB. and Wilder, TL., ''In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture'', B&H Publishing Group, 2013, p. 55.[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ChpkAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA55&dq=%22Chicago+Statement+on+Biblical+Inerrancy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=56N8U-PIK8is7Qb244HYBg&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Chicago%20Statement%20on%20Biblical%20Inerrancy%22&f=false]</ref> Article X of the Chicago statement agrees that the inspiration for the words of the Bible can only strictly be inerrant in the autographs. However, the same article asserts that the original text "can be ascertained from available manuscripts with great accuracy", so that the lack of the originals does not affect the claim of Biblical inerrancy of such recovered, modern texts.<ref name="ChicX"/>
== Textual tradition of the New Testament ==
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