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The point of that bit is that you invoked a distinction between natural and supernatural. But the distinction is an artificial one that has changed many times. Luke himself, for example, likely thought that any medicines he administered worked by bringing some kind of humor or energy to the ill person, rather than in the chemical manner in which we currently understand medicine. Nevertheless, he also probably thought that those humors or energies are entirely natural.
I don't think you can make Luke as an example since you're simply making an assumption of what he'd LIKELY have thought based on nothing at all.
Furthermore, and most importantly, your assumption also puts Luke in a conflict with the Gospel.
It is most UNLIKELY that Luke will attribute the effectiveness of his medicines to something like humor (along the context on which you're trying to show regarding humor) - that humor is like some kind of a "talisman" or magical "enabler."
He may've thought that humor helps somehow just by simply helping to lighten up a situation - but that would be Luke's exhibition of his own "physician's bedside manner" in dealing with his patients! Trying to put patients at ease. Nothing supernatural about that at all!
Humor is one of the most natural ways that helps us cope with a lot of stressful and fearful things.
Basing my assumption to the fact that Luke preaches the Gospel given by Jesus Christ, Luke would've attributed the healing of a person (and thus that includes the effectiveness of his medicines), entirely to God's will and grace!
Similarly, a goes calling upon some daemon or other would think of its existence as natural. My thinking is that the notion of something's being supernatural just doesn't make any sense. The categories "natural" and "supernatural" are confused.
They're not similar at all. It shouldn't be confusing.
The person may believe that demons exists, but I don't think the person believes the demon is not supernatural.
It's because the demons are believed to be supernatural - that's the reason why some people call on them.
Why do people usually invoke demons? To have something that can't be gained naturally.
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