Hi friend, something important came up, but what I thought of at first is to ask (as it's lately interesting to me also): have you ever read through the Proverbs? (there's a very important thing later below and this post to you isn't about Proverbs in particular) It came to mind because of this post, as there are several proverbs that might apply (not only 1), and there is one for
each different possible situation, I think. Really, there are quite a variety so that one would apply in any of several different scenarios. Now, in this video we hear the mic stand bumped very obviously, and of course Stevie would hear the vibrations/air from Paul trotting past, so he'd know the mic was bumped and he'd know from experience (especially he would definitely know this better than us!) that it might fall over.
Sure. Of course, he's a lifelong performer on stages with mics, that can fall over, etc., etc., etc. Further, he will have of course ways to know who is around, by paying attention to clues we ourselves routinely never pay attention to, because we do not need to.
But, something far more important came up.
For instance, even if something amazing happened such as Stevie somehow had gradually been recovering sight in life...or something even more amazing,
imagine if with total faith for a minute he had prayed for sight, and God miraculously healed him (and that would not necessarily mean he should then just publish it as merely a news item, but instead might mean he would testify to close friends, perhaps even saying to them something like Christ did: "tell no one" (to avoid mere slander in news of people claiming he lied his whole life, for instance), but since they are close friends in relationship with him, they might actually tell no one, yet (or some might wait)). ...
So, there are like about 5 possible scenarios right? From simply his already trained and very amazing ability to hear and know what's happening around him (as some reasonably assume, and is very likely), to something like an unusual clue in the moment to what was happening (since he has more than only one way to compensate for blindness for instance, and has had to learn those other ways), and more, several different possibilities.
But we would want to be very cautious we don't accidentally make a false accusation against him, because that is actually deadly to us: 1 Cor 6:10,
as Christians. ("nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.") We had a bible study on Proverbs recently in which we went over several dozen, but actually I'm soon expecting to read all of them through again (it's been since youth when I read through fully). But I recently heard also Proverbs that apply and are helpful, and that's why I'm mentioning proverbs also.
So, you see, out of caution for one's own soul, I'd go and edit the title to remove the accusation "faking" from the title (I think you use the button near the top called "Thread Tools"), since the word "faking" constitutes
reviling possibly (!!), and 1 Cor 6:10 says that keeps one out of the Kingdom (!!) if not repented of. It's like you would not play with high voltage electrical wiring just on the guess it's not live....you'd not risk life just on a lark to play with the wires (which could be live!), especially not eternal life. But He is just and faithful to forgive if we confess (directly to God), and turn from the wrong (not continuing to do it in the future). -- 1 John chapter 1.