Avoiding the Evil Mills

[rockytopva]

First defining a mill... A grain mill is a machine or mechanism, historically powered by water or wind but now often electric, that grinds cereal grains (like wheat, corn, rice) into flour or other meal, using abrasive surfaces like stones or steel burrs to crush and process the kernels, allowing for fresh, whole-grain flour production for baking and cooking. The process involves cleaning, crushing, and reducing grain, with different types of mills offering varying textures and speeds, from fine flour to coarse grits. - Google Search

The dangers of a mill - Fine metallic or grain powders can easily explode. The video below shows a man attempting to produce cornstarch fireballs (not recommended to try at home). I work at a factory where aluminum and steel dusts are equally explosive hazards.

The Dangers of Religious Mills - Regrettably can also produce harmful results.

1. The gossip mill - Spend all day talking about people
2. The doctrinal mill - Spending all day wanting to prove how everybody else in the world is wrong except you
3. The eschatology mill - Trying to prove exact timelines... After the Lord has told us there are things we are not to know
4. The whats wrong with the church mill - Normally beginning with... "I have a problem with..."

The Apostle Peter said... "But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. " - 1 Peter 4:15

In which can have terrible and explosive aftereffects. Whenever you have exited a conversation with a terrible feel know the it was probably the effect of some terrible form of mill

 

[rockytopva]

I must say! As a teenager there were times I felt the sensation of being new and Spirit filled. There were also times were I was involved in the wrong and harmful mills. Biblically right? Maybe? But definitely off the mark spiritually. Had I the opportunity to go back in time I would have known what talk to stay well away from as the results are terrible.

 

[Walter]

I must say! As a teenager there were times I felt the sensation of being new and Spirit filled. There were also times were I was involved in the wrong and harmful mills. Biblically right? Maybe? But definitely off the mark spiritually. Had I the opportunity to go back in time I would have known what talk to stay well away from as the results are terrible.

Thanks for posting this. Many years ago I spent my first two years at Biola. I can't tell you how many WASTED hours were spent debating The Eschatology Mill. This was right after Hal Lindsey published 'The Late Great Planet Earth'.

I remember driving by a Baptist church, each corner of their marquee read 'Fundamental, Pre-Millennial, Dispensational, KJV. I guess no one not holding their views need apply. Why would a person seeking Jesus have a clue what all that is about?

I also remember being a guest to the kick off to an Alpha Course in a non-denominational church where before about 35 inquiring people there two people leading the course in a very heated argument over eschatology in front of the bewildered group. About 15 people got up and left. What a treat for Jesus!

I spent about 20 minutes on the 'eschatology' thread and decided that I had already spent way too attention in my life with people who are dogmatic about timelines regarding the return of our Lord.

Hal Lindsey had me convinced back in the sixties, but now I just leave it at 'come quickly Lord Jesus' (Rev. 22:20)

BTW, to whom it may concern, 'I am prepared and I am ready'. Maybe stop inferring that anybody not agreeing with your interpretations of scripture are bound for hell. It sure takes a lot of chutzpah.

 

[rockytopva]

Having been brought up Baptist I still believe in... Fundamental, Pre-Millennial, Dispensational, and KJV. As I have navigated tough church times with terrible people I have been thankful for my Fundamentalist upbringing... Even if no one is onboard with me.