Cardinal Müller is a heretic /Part 4: heresies about hell, the Virgin Mary, miracles and the inspiration of Scripture/
20 April 2020
Hell
Card. Müller’s statements about hell contradict the Scripture and the whole Tradition.
The teaching of the Church on hell is as follows:
The Councils, starting with Constantinople and ending with Trent, condemned the heresy of apocatastasis. This heresy denies the eternity of hell and arose on the basis of Platonist philosophy. Müller does not utter the heresy questioning hell directly but promotes it in disguise so that everyone can automatically deduce it themselves. The teaching of the Church is based on the clear words of our Saviour, who in many places urgently warns of eternal torment in hell. “Some will go into eternal life, and some into everlasting fire and everlasting torment.” (cf. Mt 25) “…where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’” (Mk 9:48)
The teaching of the Church is clear: Hell is both a place and a condition, and is eternal. This is what the Scriptures, the Fathers and the Church Councils say. It is a place of separation from God, associated with great suffering, and lasts forever. He who dies in a state of grave sin comes to hell.
“We need to talk about hell in order to avoid it.” (St John Chrysostom)
“If there are so many statements in God-inspired Scripture about eternal torment in hell, it is one of the devil’s tricks that so many people forget about so many clear words of the Lord and say there is an end of punishment in order to have more courage to sin.” (St Basil the Great)
“If the fire of carnal lust burns inside you, confront it with the fire of hell – and the fire of your lust will go out and disappear at once.” (St John Chrysostom)
Quote by Müller: “Just as heaven is not a posthumous utopia, so also hell is not a place of torment from beyond the grave, where the revenge of a rejected lover unleashes a full range of his cruelty.”
Response: Müller mocks the Lord Jesus as a rejected lover whose revenge will unleash a full range of his cruelty. This is gross blasphemy intended to psychologically provoke the readers to reject the existence of a just punishment. Müller manipulates the readers from the very beginning, when he first states the truth and in the middle of the sentence continues with a lie. Heaven is not a posthumous utopia. Heaven is a reality. Similarly, hell, i.e. torment after death, is a reality.
Quote: “And a few more horrible brushstrokes are added to the painting by the complete absence of the slightest hint of hope that one day man will be able to leave this den of suffering.”
Response: Müller deliberately uses the ridiculous wording “horrible brushstrokes” to manipulate the readers into accepting the heresy that one who thinks that all hope has perished in hell is wrong. In other words, he utters the heresy that hell is not eternal.
With his dogmatics, Müller does not clarify the teachings of Scripture and Tradition, but rather denies them and consciously leads students of theology and lay readers to doubt and heresies. He thus threatens their salvation.
The words spoken by Jesus are clear: Some will go into eternal life, and some into eternal torment. St Basil adds: “Both are eternal.” These are clear words of the Scriptures and Tradition.
Quote: “Hell as such does not exist in a parallel sense to heaven.”
Response: Hell and heaven do exist in a parallel sense, because both are eternal.
Quote: “Hell is self-communication that came in Christ but clings to some individuals in the form of rejection.”
Response: Müller commits blasphemy and uses utterly confusing expressions from which everyone can deduce anything they like. The truth, on the other hand, is that the condition of salvation is repentance, which comes from communication with Christ. Whoever rejects this communication ends up in hell. Müller invented a kind of self-communication in Christ, and thus de facto denies both Christ Himself and the reality of our salvation.
Quote: “Hell is the absurdity of not accepting what has been accepted.”
Response: Jesus says, “Let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the devil.” Müller, by contrast, confuses the issues and challenges the basic truths of the Gospel to ensure that people are not afraid of hell and are cast there.
Quote: “That is why all people in the ashes of their lives can hope for a spark of love which God can turn into a big fire.”
Response: Making such obscure statements, Müller utters a grave heresy, saying that nobody will go to hell. Philosophizing about a spark of love in the ashes of life, he gives the impression that evil will not be punished and good will not be rewarded, which is a heresy.
The Word of God says clearly: “Some will go into eternal life, and some into everlasting torment.” (Mt 25:46) Both are eternal.
Miracles
Quote: “The so-called ‘natural miracles’ such as the calming of the storm on the lake (Mk 4:35-41) or the walking on the water (Mk 6:45-52) as well as the stories about the raising of the dead (Mk 5:21-43; Lk 7:11-17; Jn 11:1-44) were shaped by the evangelists from the perspective of the resurrection of Jesus through the Father.”
Response: Müller mentions the raising of Jairus’ daughter (Mk 5:21-43), the raising of the young man of Naim (Lk 7:11-17) and the raising of Lazarus (Jn 11:1-44). He says that these so-called stories were shaped by the evangelists from the perspective of the resurrection of Jesus through the Father. This is a denial of the inspiration of Scripture and of all testimonies confirming Christ’s divinity! In addition, Müller even denies the real resurrection of Jesus when he says in another place that it only happened in the minds of the apostles. Similarly, the Gospel events relating to those whom Christ raised from death are called by him stories which, in his view, are not historical facts but mere fabrications.
Heresies denying Mary’s virginity
Quote: “Mary’s relationship to Jesus, even in the act of giving birth, should already be seen from the perspective of the eschatological salvation.”
Response: What is the purpose of this phrase? The following statement will tell us:
Quote: “The content of the faith statement, therefore, does not refer to physiologically and empirically verifiable somatic details.”
Response: This is a clear heresy denying the dogma of faith which says that the Virgin Mary, who is kecharitomene – full of grace (Lk 1:28), remained a virgin at birth. In both the introduction and conclusion, Müller wraps this heresy in a confusing expression “eschatological salvation”. And everyone can deduce anything they like.
Quote: “In any theological interpretation of Mary’s freedom from ‘pain’ in the salvific event of the Saviour’s birth, one should also take into account the biblically-based doctrine that Mary followed the way of the cross (Lk 2:35; Jn 19:25).”
Response: Müller manipulates the readers, saying that the Virgin Mary suffered in childbirth because she also suffered on the way of the cross. This is gross manipulation. The Virgin Mary’s childbirth was not the same as ordinary childbirth. An ordinary woman gives birth to a natural human being in a natural way, whereas the Virgin Mary conceived and gave birth to the Son of God in a supernatural way. And that is the difference! It is a mystery to be received humbly by faith rather than by the pride of reason. Müller thus denies the dogma of Mary’s virginity. The teaching of the Church is this: Mary was a virgin before, during and after the birth of Christ. This mystery is connected with the supernatural conception of the Son of God. Müller thus also questions the supernatural conception of the Son of God. He attacks the essential mystery of our salvation.
Quote: “With Mary as model, Christian spirituality recognizes in every birth, accepted by a woman in faith, an experience of the salvation that has come in the end time.”
Response: Eve was told after the first sin that she would give birth in pain. The Blessed Virgin, however, was preserved from original sin through the merits of Christ (a dogma of the Church). She does not have the nature of Eve, so she is not under the curse that Eve has brought upon herself and her offspring. To place the Mother of God and the extraordinary birth of the Son of God on the same level as an ordinary woman and ordinary childbirth is degradation, blasphemy, manipulation and heresy.
Denial of the inspiration of Scripture
On several pages, Müller with his heretical vocabulary and heretical spirit questions the inspiration of Scripture, as it is done by this whole heretical school. With such premises, it is only a matter of time before gender ideology is introduced in the Church as something quite normal and legal. Denying the inspiration of Scripture, one may deny all moral precepts as well as everything supernatural in the Scripture and regard morals as mere culture rather than the law of God. Müller thus also denies sins, the need to repent and salvation in Christ, and the distinction between good and evil in general. This spirit has its roots in the conciliar aggiornamento. If Müller has now voiced opposition to Pachamama, it is inconsistent on his part since his heretical dogmatics has paved the way for this Bergoglio’s idolatrous gesture!
Conclusion:
The spirit behind the Gospel leads to eternal life; the spirit behind Müller’s dogmatics leads to eternal perdition.
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