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Hi Cathy,

To answer your question,…

…I am extracting a section from the Mythology and Symbolism section I have on my blog site:

There is no specific “magic” system in the story, but there are supernatural elements that have a correlation in the biblical account of history.

For instance, the biblical idea of “quickening” as is shown in the examples of Elijah out running a chariot (1 Kings 18:46) and Sampson slaying thousands with a jawbone (Judges 15:14) carrying off city gates (16:13) or pushing down the support columns in the house of a wealthy Philistine (16:29-30).

1 Corinthians 15:45 identifies this connection as God’s empowerment for specific circumstances, even go so far as to state that Christ, the “last Adam” was made a “quickening spirit”. And Romans 8:11 states that Christ has the ability to “quicken” our “mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in” us.

The result of these special interventions is not merely gratuitous usage of “deus ex machina” to resolve a particular conflict, but specifically and very sparingly used to accomplish God’s ordained Purpose by connection with Him.

The point being, there are real-world historical examples were God supernaturally equipped a human yielded according to His purpose, rather than the fictive scenario of the power of God serving the whims of human direction or desire. We do not direct Almighty God. He directs us. Sometimes He calls us to do what might be the unthinkable, such as Peter stepping out of a boat in a sea storm because Christ bid him to do so. There are modern testimonial and documented examples of God’s present-day supernatural intervention, i.e. cancer being healed, the lame walking again, sight restored, etc.

Does that help?