Origin from 1978
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy is a statement of belief formulated in October 1978 by more than two hundred evangelical leaders at a conference convened by the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy in Chicago, intended to defend the position that the Bible is without error against a trend toward more liberal views of scripture. It holds that inerrancy applies to the original manuscripts of the Bible, which no longer survive, and explicitly rejects a rigidly literal reading, stating that history must be treated as history and poetry as poetry, and that hyperbole and metaphor must be read as hyperbole and metaphor. Two follow-up documents extended the project: the Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics in November 1982 and the Chicago Statement on Biblical Application in December 1986. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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1. Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (Wikipedia)
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