ARE MIRACLES AND MAGIC THE SAME

I often come across this question many times and have decided to give my own opinion on the subject ,though very contentious among religious and non religious bodies thus creating a divergence views.

First of all miracles are supernatural events performed with the intentions of making one believe in the existence of God ,while a Magic is also supernatural but ment to duplicate the real thing ie make believe or counterfeit. Well a perfect example is the story of Moses and Pharaoh's magicians,
It was written that they turned their rod to become snake just as Moses did, but at the end Moses snake ended up swallowing the other snakes.
Everyone you meet has something to say about this especially as it concerns modern day churches
but the truth remains that magic and miracles are not the same even if they are performed in the church! Whatever is your opinion please feel free to give it.

 

Miracles and Magic are different. In the sense that, miracles are unexpected happenings that initially seemed probably impossible.

Magic on the other hand, are purposeful tricks implemented to amaze, catch attention or enthuse someone or a group of people.

 

"Magic" is often used in a derogatory way, particularly in discussions of spirituality and religion. Miracles ascribed to various religious traditions are dismissed as tales of "magic," with the assumption that this is simply what unsophisticated people call things they don't understand. It's also used as way to categorize any claim a person finds ridiculous or unlikely. The word is also a term used to describe acts of illusion, such as sleight-of-hand or disappearing acts. This, too, is sometimes implied when the term magic is used as a smear, suggesting that what's occurred is merely an act of deception.

On a related note, biblical miracles often lack the ostentatious character of stage magic, or the miracles of other faiths. In the Bible, people are miraculously healed without flashes of light or rumbling thunder. Those healed are returned to a "normal" state. In contrast, most miracle claims from other faiths involve great spectacle and drama. Healed persons become immortal, superhuman, or divinely empowered as a result. Just as stage magic uses spectacle to disguise what's really happening, false miracle claims often add window dressing to make them more enticing. Scriptural accounts of miracles, for the most part, are almost mundane.
Miracles are also different from magic in terms of their source. Magic is generally seen as a power within a particular person. Or, it is a natural energy that certain people can manipulate through words and hand motions. In other cases, magic is the activity of spirits commanded by the magician. All of these imply that the person performing the magic is in some way an authority over that power, or the one ultimately controlling it.
Miracles, on the other hand, are different from magic in that they are performed by God, not by men. Biblical accounts of miracles all involve God's power creating the miracle, not some mystical force commanded by the miracle worker. This also relates to a key aspect of "true" miracles, which is the message they convey. Magic can be performed at the whim of the magician. Miracles only happen when God is explicitly speaking some message, or proving some point.
In short, magic is something performed by men, by the will of men, for man's purposes, and without any legitimate supernatural component. Miracles are performed by God, by the will of God, and for God's purposes, purely by His power. Those who dismiss biblical miracles as "magic" misunderstand both.

 

To compare miracles to magic, would be like comparing the purpose of "Hello" with that of "Hola." The two were are neither mutually exclusive nor diametrically opposed. There are more like two sides of the same coin.

As a child, I can remember the parable of the Elephant and the Blind Man. The Elephant was simply too big and the men simply too blind to realize that even though each had a different experience with Elephant, that they were all indeed experiencing the very same creation. We often create difference through discriminationative labels. Miracles are to the western believer as magic is to the eastern believer.