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Hello, @mischievous-thwapling! 🙂

First of all, I would say that, from what the Bible says, there is nothing supporting or endorsing magic. Throughout the Old Testament, the Lord repeatedly tells the Israelites to have nothing to do with magicians, sorcerers and witches. (see Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 20:6,  Leviticus 19:31, Deuteronomy 18:9 – 18:12 and Isaiah 8:19)

Even in the New Testament, He calls witchcraft a “work of the flesh” (see Galatians 5:18 – 5:21). And magic and witchcraft are never put in a positive light in the Bible (see 1 Samuel 15:23, 1 Samuel 28, 1 Chronicles 10:13, 2 Chronicles 33:6, Micah 5:12, Nahum 3:4, Acts 8: 9- 11, Acts 13:6 – 11 Revelation 21:8 and Revelation 22:15)

Also, there’s a trend throughout the Bible where God demonstrates His wisdom and power to be superior to that of magicians (see Genesis 41, Exodus 8, and Daniel 1:20, 2:2, 2:27, and 4: 7-9). All of this indicates that God doesn’t like magic and does not want his children to have anything to do with it.

The only magic that I think would be allowable (and this my opinion – please don’t feel like you have to agree with me) is if it were on the “bad guys” side. Since most of the power for magic, witchcraft and the like comes from Satan anyway, it’s not out of place there. And I would keep the details as few as possible; the less we know about this stuff, the better. (see Romans 16:19)

That being said, I’m not saying that you can’t have anything supernatural happenings that aren’t “Bad-guy” related. I actually think that your hypothetical example is an acceptable way to go. And God has done a lot of miracles and allowed people power and abilities that can’t be explained without Him. (i.e Moses, Samson, the Apostles) I would just want to make sure that any “fantastical” things are a gift of power from your “God-figure”, and not by works of man or Satan.

Hope I don’t sound like I’m preaching! 🙂 And I am not try to either, just wanted to say what the Bible says and share my opinion without attacking yours. I hope this answers your question