Avoiding All Lies and Deceit (2): Receive No Evil

By Martyn McGeown. Previous article in the series: Avoiding All Lies and Deceit (1): Speak No Evil. _________ As we saw in the last blog post the Heidelberg Catechism mentions four types of sins against the Ninth Commandment. The first three sins—bearing false witness, falsifying a man’s words and slander/backbiting—are sins in which we speak evil to or about the neighbor. But there is a second way in which to break this commandment: we receive an evil report about someone. In other words, we...