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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Magic and the Christian Faith (with Joshua Ng)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Can the miracles of Jesus be explained as magic? Since magic is forbidden in the Bible, can a Christian be a magician? What are some principles we can learn from the practice of magic to help be more discerning in our age of fake news? These are just a few of the questions we explore with our guest, Joshua Ng, a practicing magician, member of the academy of magical arts, and student in the MA Apologetics program at Talbot School of Theology.Follow Joshua on Instagram: https://www.instagram.co...

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Can the miracles of Jesus be explained as magic?

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Since magic is forbidden in the Bible, can a Christian be a magician?

0:10.0

And are there any principles from the practice of magic that might help us discern truth today in our age of fake news?

0:18.0

These are just a few of the questions we are going to explore today with our guest, Joshua, mmm, a practicing magician, member of the Academy of

0:26.1

Magical Arts and a student in the Apologics program at top school theology where I

0:30.9

teach I've had you twice Josh it's a thrill to have you on can't wait to dive in I'm your host Sean McDell I'm your co-host Scott Ray and this is think

0:40.1

biblically Josh thanks for coming for coming on. Thank you both.

0:42.9

Thank you for having me.

0:43.6

It's an honor.

0:44.4

Yeah, I've totally been looking forward to this.

0:46.1

Before we get into some of these questions,

0:47.9

I'd love to hear, why did you first become a magician?

0:51.3

What was that story like? Yeah, so before I became a magician I actually

0:55.0

have a background in music. My background in classical and rock music actually helped me to build up a showman and a virtual so mindset to practice really well.

1:08.0

And then it's in high school when Justin showed me this piece that got me into magic.

1:13.3

So, Scott, would you help me out here?

1:15.0

Sure.

1:16.0

Oh, here we're going to narrate those for those.

1:17.8

Yeah, just take one card from me, Scott.

1:20.6

Okay.

1:22.0

Take one card and look at the card. You can show it to Shauna and you can show

1:26.1

it to the cameras just for now and in a second the audio listeners still know what's going on.

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