Funny you should mention magic. According to at least onestudy, “traditional Christian religion greatly decreases credulity, as measured by beliefs in such things as dreams, Bigfoot, UFOs, haunted houses, communicating with the dead and astrology” and I’m pretty sure the same goes for magic. Now here’s the funny thing:magic is attested in the Bible, eg in Exodus 7-8 where Egyptian magicians perform almost on par with Moses; and communicating with the dead is attested to in 1 Samuel 28, where King Saul talks to the spirit of Samuel; and prophetic dreams in almost every book in the Old Testament and some of the New; and fighting demonic possession played a key role in Jesus’ ministry and also of His disciples after Him. But the people who most proclaim the Bible’s truth, usually don’t believe in these (especially the first two). Some of these people also claim that if any part of the Bible wasn’t true, then the whole thing is worthless.
Funny you should mention magic. According to at least one study, “traditional Christian religion greatly decreases credulity, as measured by beliefs in such things as dreams, Bigfoot, UFOs, haunted houses, communicating with the dead and astrology” and I’m pretty sure the same goes for magic. Now here’s the funny thing:magic is attested in the Bible, eg in Exodus 7-8 where Egyptian magicians perform almost on par with Moses; and communicating with the dead is attested to in 1 Samuel 28, where King Saul talks to the spirit of Samuel; and prophetic dreams in almost every book in the Old Testament and some of the New; and fighting demonic possession played a key role in Jesus’ ministry and also of His disciples after Him. But the people who most proclaim the Bible’s truth, usually don’t believe in these (especially the first two). Some of these people also claim that if any part of the Bible wasn’t true, then the whole thing is worthless.