Soul Ties?

[jofa]

I’m going to be having some healing ministry and it has been suggested I make a list of anyone with which I may have a soul tie so that that may be broken. Does anyone have a definition for soul tie?
Thanks and God Bless!
Sandra

 

[Spencerian]

I’m going to be having some healing ministry and it has been suggested I make a list of anyone with which I may have a soul tie so that that may be broken. Does anyone have a definition for soul tie?
Thanks and God Bless!
Sandra

Hi.

I made some quick searches on this term.

I cannot yet find any Scriptural basis for this concept. Nor have I have any Catholic teaching on this, for or against. I have found some results through Internet searches, of only one I will share here, from the Fish Eaters forums (all others are vehemently anti-Catholic and inappropriate to refer to here).

However, the concept appears to have a mystical, almost new-age attachment to some in Protestant circles–likely more in the evangelical traditions. In effect, a “soul tie” is something you create through intimate relations and cut through prayer or other action when the person to which you have such a tie is undesirable due to the occasion of sin. Cutting a soul tie, while not Biblical as far as I am able to find, appears to try to help a Christian to make atonement to God for occasions of sin.

Based on my teachings, for Catholics, we simply rectify such issues through attending Mass (for a venial sin) or the Sacrament of Confession.

 

[brotherjoe]

This is often worked through in charismatic circles. If you have had an illicit intimate relationship, or an abusive or unhealthy codependent relationship, that creates an obstacle to wholeness and holiness that the individual needs to make a decision to let go of. This is often done during prayer and with the effect of reducing future temptation and greater emotional health.

Biblically, it is simply part of the process of repentance in general.

 

[jofa]

Thank you for the help!
God Bless!

 

[kernelkonfusion]

I have attended some Christian (non-Catholic) discussions where soul ties have been discussed which sparked my interest in the biblical basis of this idea. The clearest connection from my research is 1 Corinthians 6:15-18 which might be interpreted as presented at piercedthroughtheheart.blogspot.com/2011/02/soul-ties.html. I’d be interested in what others here think of this.

 

[mommyof4]

I’m going to be having some healing ministry and it has been suggested I make a list of anyone with which I may have a soul tie so that that may be broken. Does anyone have a definition for soul tie?
Thanks and God Bless!
Sandra

Maybe it is an inappropriate attachment to sin? Or an inappropriate relationship?

 

[puzzleannie]

I’m going to be having some healing ministry and it has been suggested I make a list of anyone with which I may have a soul tie so that that may be broken. Does anyone have a definition for soul tie?
Thanks and God Bless!
Sandra

I never heard of any such thing in connection with any legitimate Catholic spirituality.

“It has been suggested” by whom? if not your confessor or spiritual director you may simply disregard the advice.