Much contemporary religious talk of miracles portrays them as supernatural events. I think that is the perspective of many Seventh-day Adventists and Christians of evangelical and fundamentalist strains. The miraculous has become something that by definition is an empirical intervention that, at least temporarily, breaks, disrupts, suspends, or violates the laws of nature as we understand them. All this is part of the enormous influence of David Hume’s legacy delineating modern skepticism as well as the dominance of empirical-object language in our culture.