Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit (1 Corinthians 6:15-17)
Consider with me this concept: Two bodies, after intimately connecting, impacts their souls. When two become one, there is a physical body fluid exchange, and more significantly, there is something that happens to each of their beings. Let us call it an infection, shall we? when the two have shared themselves, without the benefit of being called husband and wife; they have infected one another with the uncleanness of harlotry via fornication.
When I first heard the idea of soul ties needing to be cut or broken, I was uncertain what the person was referring to. I learned, that people have a hard time disengaging emotionally, psychologically, and clearly, spiritually, when they have had intercourse with someone that is not their spouse, thus the terminology soul tie, emerged. There is something dirty that clings to the person in the aftermath of intercourse outside of marriage, and in secular speak, the soul tie bonding of two that were never meant to be one, can cause an internal struggle for an individual, that is left with a feeling of still being connected. The infection, if we follow it to an outcome, can fester, perhaps eventually healing over, while leaving scar tissue on the heart, in the mind, and on the soul, that periodically throbs and aches, as a reminder of the unfortunate event. One of the two may have thought there would be more, perhaps a relationship, perhaps a permanent commitment, perhaps marriage and family life...
So far we are tracking a secular understanding of what can feel like a permanent bond that must be cut or broken, between two people that have fornicated. To save you from scrolling, I have pasted below the paragraph that started our time together, Paul's admonishment to the fornicating Christians in Corinth:
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit
With this scripture in mind, I was stunned, and did a whole lot of closing one eye while I read cringing, when I absorbed the magnitude of this sin. Read below Matthew Henry's Commentary on the apostle Paul's sharp edged rebuke regarding fornication:
Nothing can stand in greater opposition to the honourable relations and alliances of a Christian man than this sin. He is joined to the Lord in union with Christ, and made partaker by faith of his Spirit. One spirit lives and breathes and moves in the head and members. Christ and his faithful disciples are one.
Now shall one in so close a union with Christ as to be one spirit with him yet be so united to a harlot as to become one flesh with her? Were not this a vile attempt to make a union between Christ and harlots? And can a greater indignity be offered to him or ourselves?
Dear reader, the very act of fornication has a lasting effect on the spirit, within each party engaging in the activity. Since Christians are one in the spirit with the Lord, fornication violates Christ, as though he too, is fornicating. The adulterous nature of this riddled with wickedness behaviour, deeply offends the Spirit of the Lord, since Christians belong, mind, body, and spirit, to him: we were bought and paid for with his sacrificial blood, shed for our sins on the cross.
We are one in the spirit, we are one in the Lord. This means that each and every Christian has the Holy Spirit within, and we must not violate our bodies, since the soul belongs to God: it is impossible to separate the two, when we are alive and walking the earth. What we do with and to our bodies, impacts every other part of us, including the essence of who we are.
Soul ties are the lasting and residual side effects, of sins committed; that lingering feeling, is a form of suffering loss, for having shared far too much, with someone that should never have been know so well, and so intimately.
NOTE: I dare to refer to fornication in terms of whoredom and harlotry for all that indulge their fleshly desires via intercourse with someone that is not their spouse, because it is a selling of self, a denigrating and forsaking, of each person's worth. God values his creatures greatly, and set in motion a plan, in the beginning: one man, one woman, becoming one in all ways, calling them husband and wife. Less than this for each man, and each woman, is a violation of natural order, and disobedience to God's commands.
Christian, you betray the Lord when you fornicate, and as the apostle Paul states and I echo, God forbid.
Were not this a vile attempt to make a union between Christ and harlots?
Flee from temptation and this sin in particular.
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