[[Evangelical Christians]] generally accept the findings of [[textual criticism]],<ref>Bacote, VE., Miguélez, LC. and Okholm, DL., ''Evangelicals & Scripture: Tradition, Authority and Hermeneutics'', InterVarsity Press, 2009.</ref> and nearly all modern translations, including the popularNew Testament of the [[New International Version]], workare frombased aon Greek"the Newwidely Testamentaccepted basedprinciples onof modern... textual criticism".<ref>''Today's new International Version: New Testament'', Introduction.</ref>
Since thistextual meanscriticism suggests 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
manuscripts are also inerrant, for they are exact copies of the originals.<ref name="Grudem90"/></blockquote>