Ben Zartman
Puritan Board Junior
Given the several strong admonitions against talebearing in the OT, I'm looking for resources on what talebearing exactly is. I'm discussing this with someone who says that talebearing is only telling things that are untrue.
My understanding was that talebearing was telling someone something about a third party that wasn't your business to tell: essentially "tattling."
For instance: Person 'A' tells person 'T' he conversed with persons 'B' and 'C'. Person 'T' goes to 'B' and 'C' and asks for verification. Then person 'T' returns to 'A' and says "B and C said this about your conversation which confirms/denies what you said."
Has 'T' become a talebearer? T's actions are separating A from B and C (Proverbs says that will happen), and sowing suspicion and discord between them--surely A will never confide in either B, C, or T again. Is it talebearing in the Biblical sense to take a story from one, repeat it to others, then return to the first and tell what the others said about the first story?
I believe so, but would like some clarity on it from other sources.
My understanding was that talebearing was telling someone something about a third party that wasn't your business to tell: essentially "tattling."
For instance: Person 'A' tells person 'T' he conversed with persons 'B' and 'C'. Person 'T' goes to 'B' and 'C' and asks for verification. Then person 'T' returns to 'A' and says "B and C said this about your conversation which confirms/denies what you said."
Has 'T' become a talebearer? T's actions are separating A from B and C (Proverbs says that will happen), and sowing suspicion and discord between them--surely A will never confide in either B, C, or T again. Is it talebearing in the Biblical sense to take a story from one, repeat it to others, then return to the first and tell what the others said about the first story?
I believe so, but would like some clarity on it from other sources.