I don't post much here anymore as it always seemed the obvious and real points I raised were avoided rather than being properly debated and discussed, but that being said, came here tonight, and was glad to learn something.......great post.
The unprocessed olive is neither food nor fruit -- it is utterly inedible until it has been soaked for a few weeks in a solution of lye and water. It has always been, for me, one of the profound mysteries of human development: who could have possibly figured out how to make olives edible? Granting that someone, at some time, felt compelled to accomplish this feat, how could the notion of soaking in lye possible have been considered as a means to that end?
Even if we consider only olive oil, it is equally difficult for me to imagine how this process would have come into existence -- I've been downwind of a factory that produces olive oil a few times, and I would be quite happy not to repeat the experience.
If true, it really is amazing.
I think that perhaps intuition and insight, really from the Lord, comes into play and somehow people are instructed whether they realize it or not by a higher, more spiritual order (aka God).
But hey, if you don't buy that, it is still something to think about......imo, there is a rational explanation but it's intuition that is the explanation.
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