Something that I can't wrap my mind around

Depends on how you define magic...

Some folks looking at answers to prayer think of it as magic.

So you might think of it this way...

An answer to prayer is not magic because the source of the answer has come from outside of creation in Heaven where God dwells.

This is what he disciples prayed for in Acts 4:30

Acts 4:30
while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”

Gold fish said:

I heard that not all magic is from satan.And that some magic comes from God.And that if you do it right you can use magic from God.Is this all true?

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Always ask for biblical support.
God doesn't do magic,,,
He does miracles.

Galatians makes it clear that witchcraft (magic) is a work of the flesh (sin). We can know, then, that magic is not of God whatsoever.

Also see Nahum 3:4, 1 Samuel 15:23, Micah 5:9-13, 2 Kings 9:22, and 2 Chronicles 33:6.

Gold fish said:

And that some magic comes from God. And that if you do it right you can use magic from God.

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If you are talking about incantations that break the laws of the physical universe God created, I don't think so. But here is some magic cookie dough, nothing wrong with this. He gave us plenty of "magic" to work with, the whole place is full of it. Just remember that He's the one that gave it, and don't do anything with it his Son wouldn't do.

Gold fish said:

I heard that not all magic is from satan.And that some magic comes from God.And that if you do it right you can use magic from God.Is this all true?

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In Acts 19 At Ephesus God worked miracles by the hand of Paul. People began to believe.

Acts 19:19 Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Gold fish said:

I heard that not all magic is from satan.And that some magic comes from God.And that if you do it right you can use magic from God.Is this all true?

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No it is not true.
Magic is an attempt to manipulate the world through a supernatural power.

God condems the use of magic and everything associated with it.
There is no such thing as 'white' magic, all magic is against God and his ways.

Get rid of any books, videos etc that you have that advocate using magic.

Gold fish said:

I heard that not all magic is from satan.And that some magic comes from God.And that if you do it right you can use magic from God.Is this all true?

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All things come from God. Doesnt matter if we call it magic, miracles, incantations etc...

When it is good or evil, is determined by the one using, and the end result of the action.

Gold fish said:

I heard that not all magic is from satan.And that some magic comes from God.And that if you do it right you can use magic from God.Is this all true?

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From what I know and believe God rains on the just and unjust.. all gifts are from God some don't know others make the choice to use it in a bad way. Like you.. God did give you somethings.. what you choose to do with that is your choice. Satan can not create only mimic. Its not magic....

There may have been systems of prayer, meditation or training. Which were necessary for biblical prophets of past eras gaining the the holy spirit, speaking in tongues and achieving similar feats.

We know old testament prophets made burnt sacrifices on altars. A similar practice to other cultures of the same era. It naturally makes sense, that ancient biblical prophets may have developed their own systems of meditation, prayer and training. In contrast to what ancient hindus, buddhists and other spiritual cultures had.

It would explain why prophets of past eras could perform feats and miracles. The knowledge of which has been lost somewhere in time.

Gold fish said:

I heard that not all magic is from satan.And that some magic comes from God.And that if you do it right you can use magic from God.Is this all true?

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Magic isn't a biblical concept, a Christian idea; magic, as a concept, comes from pagan religion, from devil worship, really. Magic has been white-washed, cleaned-up, in western fairy tales and fantasy stories (think of the Narnia Chronicles, or Tolkien's LOTR) treated as a sort of sourceless, supernatural force one can obtain, direct and magnify by various arcane means in service to one's desire.

Such power does not exist. There is only God: all power is His power. He has infused the universe He has made with energy, with mechanical, material power, but His supernatural power, the power that raised Jesus from the dead, that instantly healed the lame, blind and sick, that parted the Red Sea, He doesn't give to us to play with as we like. We can't incant this power, by occult ritual draw it and use as we wish. That is pagan thought, not the truth God has revealed to us in His word.

The devil offers a weak counterfeit of God's supernatural power, and by doing so lures people into service to himself. They think they are gaining supernatural power - magical power - but in reality they are falling into bondage to the demonic. Satan is capable of some very extraordinary things, but he is nowhere near the equal of God. In fact, all of Satan's power has been given to him by God, and is ultimately made by God to serve His will.

This doesn't mean, though, that Satan isn't able to destroy people with his deceitful offer of "magical power." Over the centuries of human history, the devil has destroyed millions this way, luring people, in their pursuit of magical power, to terrible, terrible evil. Think of the babies sacrificed to Molech; think of the people whose beating hearts were cut out in worship of Aztec demon-gods; think of the people snatched in the dark from the streets of modern cities and butchered in Satanic rituals. This is where Satan takes people who lust for supernatural power of their own.

Other people looking for "magic," the devil mires in superstition, in obsession with crystals, sensations of the body, fairy creature mythology, "spiritual plane" experiences that trap these people in darkness and deception, blinding them to the saving truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If the devil can blind them to the Saviour, he can move them along a path of living that ends in eternal hell - destruction just as complete as any pagan human sacrifice.

So, be very careful about "magic." There is no such thing; not of the fantasy fiction sort, anyway. What power waits for the unwary, living out from under God's control, apart from His will and way, seeks to "steal, kill and destroy" the unwary.

1 Peter 5:8
8 Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.