When I'm reading or watching something that mentions "magic", I go into my "willful suspension of disbelief" mode -- just as I do in SF for "warp drive", "transporter", "time travel", "light saber", etc. subjects -- and just view them as "plot devices"...
It helps significantly to be a Bible-believing Christian -- and a scientist -- when confronting such subjects...
It also helps to have visited a "Magicians Supply Store" as a kid and have seen all the "fakery gimmicks" for sale there -- to simulate "magic" in action.
(Lesson: if it requires physics & physical gimmicks, it ain't "magic" -- just tomfoolery!)
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Pharaoh’s magicians did real supernatural things to mimic the acts of God that Moses did.
Is what a lot of people call *magic* just tricks and deceptions? Yes. But not all of it and making it look all innocent and fun and games leaves kids open to dabbling in something they have no clue about.
And even the parlor tricks some people do involve deception, something God also hates.
If you think that there isn’t real power in the supernatural and behind much of magic, then you are wide open for deception.