Even among Christians, there is a tendency to try to take the supernatural out of the Bible and explain everything through a naturalistic lens. It is how we are conditioned as Westerners. Much of the worldview of Western civilization is built on naturalism, rationalism, and intellectualism. We aren’t a superstitious people. We’re sophisticated and educated, which is why the tendency even among today’s Christians is to explain away the supernatural elements of the Bible.
