Soul Ties

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Has anyone here heard of or had any experience with what is known in deliverance ministry circles as a “soul tie”? This is an ungodly, demonicly influenced attachment (usually sexual) to a person outside ones marriage. It can manifest as a type of obsession. I have also heard the term “Jezebel Spirit” used for this.
 
There is a spiritual phenomenon called “obsession,” but it’s pretty rare. Usually people just have psychological obsessions of perfectly natural origin. It ain’t good mental health, but it ain’t demonic.

One person can certainly be an “occasion of sin” to another person, but so can chocolate. If you can’t control yourself very well, you avoid the occasion of sin (easier to do and very prudent) or learn to control yourself better around it (harder to do, though sometimes necessary). I have trouble not committing the sin of gluttony around chocolate, but it’s not because chocolate is tied to my soul.

Anyway, all human beings have free will. A demon can tempt you, trick you, or even possess your body, but I seriously doubt that anything can tie your soul to anybody else’s. If marriage can’t (“till death do us part”) and the good Lord won’t (Jesus’ parable about the rich man and the poor man), why would a demon be allowed to? Is your guardian angel supposed to be drunk or asleep while the demons are tying your soul? Of course not. It’s sad and pagan for Christians to think that demons could be so strong and God so weak, as to allow a breach of free will at the level of the soul.

If you are really all that interested in studying the theology of evil and demons (and it’s not probably something to get into unless you have to), there are reputable texts you can look up. You may have to read Latin, but it is out there. In theology textbooks in big libraries, not in occult shops or weird Christian bookstores.

The kind of stuff you’re hearing is not stuff you should trust. It’s relatively new, it’s coming from people who may or may not know anything about what they’re talking about, and it seems to be based on extremely dubious theology. (And there’s usually a fair helping of folk occult theory in it, too, although the people doing “deliverance” usually don’t know that.)
 
I’ve heard of it. Unhealthy obsessions like mother daughter relationship that’s too close - won’t leave house ect and also from sexual relationships. Can come down from the family tree
 
Has anyone here heard of or had any experience with what is known in deliverance ministry circles as a “soul tie”? This is an ungodly, demonicly influenced attachment (usually sexual) to a person outside ones marriage. It can manifest as a type of obsession. I have also heard the term “Jezebel Spirit” used for this.
I have heard of soul ties. I think that the concept is most common among Charismatics.

The theory is that a spiritual connection is created between a man and every person that man meets. The connections can be very weak like threads, or strong like a heavy cable. The strongest connections are between family members, close associates, and sexual partners. They can be positive or negative.

The connections are basically a conduit for “energy”. Positive soul ties, an example might be between parents and children, transmit positive helpful energy which can aid a person in his spiritual journey. The negative ties can be responsible for transmitting energy which causes negativity and temptation.

Deliverance prayers sometimes include breaking negative soul ties.
 
Everyone has to make decisions about companionship. St. Paul mentions how bad companionship ruins good morals. At the same time, a gift of the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Counsel, very important obviously if it is a gift of the Holy Spirit. The book of proverbs talks about counsel and counselors. A person could good google: proverbs bible counsel counselors

George Washington is quoted as repeating something along the lines of, “It is better to be by yourself than with bad company.”

Many people will say that Alcoholics Anonymous has helped them and maybe it has. It probably has. A word of caution though: the latest version of the AA big book, which is a book of testimonies, includes testimonies where a person discovers her real self by active homosexuality. This story/testimony was not in the earlier versions of the AA big book.

So my point is that everyone has to make decisions about companionship and they are not always the easiest decisions. In some places, there are just not that many practicing Catholics around in the same age group as a person. Then a person may also need to look at travel costs for free time activities while simultaneously considering love for the poor.
 
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