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==== Evangelical inerrantists ====
 
[[Evangelical Christians]] generally accept the findings of [[textual criticism]]{{cn|date=May,<ref>Bacote, 2014}}VE., Miguélez, LC. and Okholm, DL., ''Evangelicals & Scripture: Tradition, Authority and Hermeneutics'', InterVarsity Press, 2009.</ref> and nearly all modern translations, including the popular [[New International Version]], work from a Greek New Testament based on modern textual criticism.
 
Since this means that the manuscript copies are not perfect, strict inerrancy is only applied to the original autographs (the manuscripts written by the original authors) rather than the copies. However, challenging this view, evangelical theologian [[Wayne Grudem]] writes:<blockquote>For most practical purposes, then, the current published scholarly texts of the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament are the same as the original manuscripts. Thus, when we say that the original manuscripts were inerrant, we are also implying that over 99 percent of the words in our present