article about the Mesha Stele<\/a>\u00a0to the web site for the benefit of others in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: I came across your site twice in two days. Once when I was looking for\u00a0refutations to the teachings by Dan Billingsly\u00a0and now when I was looking for information on the\u00a0historical accuracy of the Bible. Thanks for the help. I also came across a reference to\u00a0the Mesha Stele in Wikipedia\u00a0that supports the reference in II…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[127,568,478,606,279,799,268],"class_list":["post-17566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-about-this-site","tag-accuracy-of-the-bible","tag-false-teachers","tag-gospels","tag-history","tag-new-testament","tag-old-testament"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42803,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-historical-accuracy-of-the-bible-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":17566,"position":0},"title":"The Historical Accuracy of the Bible","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. 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