Unfortunately, most Western Christians read the stories about Jesus, especially the miracle stories, not as a template for how to live but as “proof that Jesus was God.” This goes back hundreds of years to the Enlightenment, when Western elites began to say, “We believe Jesus was a great teacher, sure, but nothing more.” (This then let them decide which of his teachings to follow or ignore and, as a result, let them run the world as they saw fit[9]—a pattern that continues to this day.)
