Have you ever heard of "binding & loosing" spirits?

Question

Some churches do this. Have you ever tried it? If you did..what happened?

Answer 1

I'm familiar with binding and loosing spirits, but i've never had any personal experience.

what kind of church does this? hopefully it's not something they do in their spare time lol for fun or something.

i know catholic churches (exorcists) never bind spirits; they only banish.

it's very serious and easy to s***w up... if you do s***w up, you're in serious trouble.

binding and banishing basically have the same pros and cons. either way the spirit goes away, and either way there's a chance it can be let back in/let out if someone allows it.

p.s. deenie, i always love your questions!!

Answer 2

binding and loosing spirits traces its roots to pagan and shamanistic practices in europe ,and is not to be taken lightly. it is a dangerous art  and those who play with fire soon find themselves burned.

Answer 3

Imagine if you had a pet dog and someone stole it and chained it in a field under full sun with no food or water. Now imagine that the person left the dog there for months or years to suffer. Alone.

That is what binding does to spirits and entities. Its cruel and hurtful.

I believe that spirits and entities have a right to exist the same as you and I do and it is not my place to torture them.

In fact, I look for opportunities to help them where ever possible. Maybe they need help to finishing crossing over, maybe they need light and love sent to them. All these things are helpful to them.

Imagine the case of the dog again. How much fear and anger would he carry around after being chained with no food or water for a long time? It would need some help to get back on its path don't you think?

Thanks for the question,

Peace

Answer 4

Several Pentacostal churches do this.  My parents made me go to them when I was younger.  As much as I would like to say that stuff is fake - I watched pastors of these churches and other people who me and my family knew very well do the "binding and loosing" of spirits - and peole would fall to the ground.  (People I also knew).  Now there were people the church had set up to catch them, so it wasn't all that entertaining to watch.  It did freak me out a little.  I was a teenager then.

Answer 5

I'm familiar with it only in the context of modern fundamentalism. When I went to that kind of church years ago, I'd often hear the pastor pray/preach, "We bind the spirit of xxxxx!", where xxxxx was a sin of some kind - adultery, blasphemy, etc. There wasn't any loosing of spirits, except for the holy spirit that is, and the spirit of giving when the offering plate came around. Is this what you are talking about?  Anyhow, I didn't see anything unusual, only the expected.

Answer 6

Those spirit folks sure are creative.  They are always inventing all sorts of new spirits.